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I played a homosexual bodyguard in 'The Last Detective,' and that was quite a pleasure to do something slightly different. I was a very camp bodyguard!
Dave Legeno
Pleasure
Slightly
Detective
Something
Camp
Very
Quite
Different
Bodyguard
Played
Homosexual
Last
People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.
David Attenborough
Beautiful
Natural
People
Wonderful
World
Amazing
Valuable
Important
Pleasure
Must
Feel
Amazement
Natural World
People tell me they open my e-mails first, because they aren't demands and you don't need to reply. They're simply for pleasure.
David Hockney
Me
You
People
First
Pleasure
Tell
Open
Simply
Demands
Because
Reply
Need
The Term Paper Artist' represents two models of writing, one of the little boy bouncing his ball, generating stories for the sheer pleasure of it, and the besieged adult, writing to make a living, having to contend with a very competitive, very unreliable world in which public image counts.
David Leavitt
Writing
World
Living
Paper
Pleasure
Having
Unreliable
Adult
Generating
Bouncing
Term
Counts
Make
Contend
Sheer
Ball
Boy
His
Very
Models
Artist
Represents
Stories
Which
Public
Little
Public Image
Image
Competitive
Two
To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.
David McCullough
Music
Art
Me
History
Experience
Responsibility
Ought
Our
Way
Pleasure
Alive
Civic
Part
Source
Just
Being
Literature
Enlargement
For the greater beauty of the instrument, the balls representing the planets are to be of considerable bigness; but so contrived, that they may be taken off at pleasure, and others, much smaller, and fitter for some purposes, put in their places.
David Rittenhouse
Beauty
Others
Considerable
Pleasure
Some
Purposes
Taken
Put
Smaller
Instrument
Greater
Balls
Off
Fitter
Contrived
May
Representing
Places
Much
Planets
I guess my guilty pleasure would be listening to the British audio versions of the 'Harry Potter' books.
David Sedaris
Listening
Guess
Books
Harry
Harry Potter
Pleasure
Guilty
Guilty Pleasure
Would
Would-Be
Potter
Audio
Versions
British
You have to put time into the art to do it, and you have to know that what you'll get out of it is not a financial or a fame thing. It'll just be the pleasure of being an artist. And I'm cool with that.
Dawn Richard
Art
Time
You
Financial
Just Be
Pleasure
Out
Put
Know
Fame
Fame Thing
Get
Artist
Just
Being
Cool
Thing
The commendable conduct of man is shown by his discriminate treatment of merits and sympathetic regard for pleasure and pain, profit and loss of others. The contrary course is reprehensible.
Dayananda Saraswati
Man
Pain
Profit
Others
Pleasure
Merits
Course
His
Loss
Commendable
Conduct
Discriminate
Contrary
Reprehensible
Regard
Shown
Treatment
Sympathetic
Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled.
Dean Koontz
Love
Writing
Sometimes
Pain
Tooth
Pleasure
Having
Like
Also
Making
While
Novel
Pulled
How you eat is as important as what you eat. If I eat mindlessly while watching television, I get all of the calories and none of the pleasure. Instead, if I eat mindfully, paying attention and savoring what I'm eating, smaller portions of food can be exquisitely satisfying.
Dean Ornish
Food
You
Important
Pleasure
Television
Eat
Eating
Smaller
Instead
Attention
None
Calories
How
Get
While
Paying
Satisfying
Exquisitely
Portions
Watching
Watching Television
When you eat mindfully, by paying attention to what you eat, you get more pleasure with fewer calories.
Dean Ornish
You
Pleasure
Eat
More
Attention
Calories
Get
Fewer
Paying
Fred Astaire was retired when he worked in 'The Pleasure of His Company.' They were lucky to get him to play the father part.
Debbie Reynolds
Father
Astaire
Pleasure
Fred
Fred Astaire
He
Part
Retired
Him
Were
His
Get
Worked
Company
Lucky
Play
It's been a pleasure to see female comedians be prominent and flourish - like Kate McKinnon's Rudy Giuliani impressions, which are uncanny in their precision.
Debra Granik
Pleasure
Prominent
See
Like
Comedians
Female
Been
Impressions
Precision
Which
Kate
Flourish
People find pleasure in hating someone. I think it's the beginning of kali. If someone has betrayed you, it's understandable that you hate them. But hating someone you don't even know... that's something I will never understand.
Dhanush
You
Hate
People
Will
Beginning
Think
Pleasure
Find
Hating
Someone
Betrayed
Something
Never
Know
Understand
Understandable
Them
Even
A few months ago, I had the pleasure of actually visiting the Playboy Mansion. I saw the peacocks, fed grapes to the monkeys, and even braved the fabled Grotto. After seeing the estate, I understood why anyone would be reluctant to leave.
Diablo Cody
Few
Saw
Months
Pleasure
Visiting
Would
Would-Be
Seeing
Reluctant
Fed
Had
Understood
Leave
Anyone
Estate
After
Mansion
Grapes
Even
Why
Actually
Playboy
Monkeys
I make my guitar scream with pain or pleasure or sensuality. It makes people move their feet and shake their bodies. That's what music does.
Dick Dale
Music
People
Guitar
Pain
Pleasure
Shake
Feet
Make
Makes
Does
Move
Scream
Sensuality
Bodies
If you don't have God in your life, you have to fill up on something. And you usually reach for the four great substitutes, the classical addictions: wealth, pleasure, power, and honor. So you try to fill yourself up.
Dion DiMucci
Life
God
Great
You
Yourself
Wealth
Try
Honor
Power
Addictions
Pleasure
Classical
Something
Reach
Up
Substitutes
Your
Fill
Four
It's always a pleasure to find something that matters.
Don Cornelius
Matters
Pleasure
Find
Something
Always
Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive. The profession of professor of history has taken it in a very different direction.
Donald Kagan
History
Experience
People
Way
Pleasure
Some
Direction
Throughout
Taken
Read
Because
Felt
Very
Human
Different
Human Experience
Profession
Professor
Watching 'Scandal' is a fun and exciting guilty pleasure, which is how I imagine most real scandals start out.
Donna Brazile
Pleasure
Guilty
Guilty Pleasure
Out
Scandal
Scandals
Exciting
Most
How
Real
Which
Fun
Start
Watching
Imagine
Time passed solely in the pursuit of pleasure leaves no solid enjoyment for the future; but from the hours you spend in reading and studying useful books, you will gather a golden harvest in future years.
Dorothea Dix
Future
Time
You
Will
Reading
Spend
Books
Solely
Pleasure
Solid
Harvest
Pursuit
Studying
Hours
Passed
Leaves
Years
Golden
Useful
Enjoyment
Gather
I learned from my parents that you have to get pleasure out of what you're doing, or don't do it.
Douglas Tompkins
You
Parents
Pleasure
Out
Learned
Doing
Get
I like to be important for the team. That's it: to try and help my team Southampton to give fans pleasure to enjoy.
Dusan Tadic
Try
Fans
Important
Enjoy
Pleasure
Give
Like
Team
Help
It is a pleasure to play under Jose Mourinho, and everything is OK. I learn every day. He is a normal coach. He speaks a lot with the players. I like it when the manager speaks a lot with you because it gives you confidence.
Eden Hazard
Day
You
Confidence
Every Day
Every
Everything
Pleasure
OK
Gives
He
Like
Learn
Because
Normal
Lot
Manager
Coach
Speaks
Play
Players
I have found back at Spurs the pleasure of football.
Edgar Davids
Back
Pleasure
Football
Spurs
Found
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