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Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.
Frank Moore Colby
Life
Natural
People
Clever
Pleasure
Seem
Relish
Feel
Clever People
Always
Answering
Go
Questions
Chief
Them
Asking
The demise of Jeb Bush has been a source of immeasurable pleasure for, well, nearly everyone.
Franklin Foer
Everyone
Immeasurable
Pleasure
Has-Been
Demise
Well
Been
Source
Bush
Nearly
I'm not a Lincoln expert, rather a biographer who has had the pleasure of reading much of what has been written about him from his lifetime to this year of his bicentennial. Some advice: Don't try that unless you have at least five years available.
Fred Kaplan
You
Try
Advice
Reading
Year
Unless
Pleasure
Has-Been
Some
About
Rather
Lifetime
Had
Written
Him
Least
Lincoln
Been
His
Years
Five
Expert
Available
Much
Who
Despite all the criticisms that have been leveled at the comics community, both in terms of fans and creators, I have always felt more comfortable and accepted in the comics community than I have in any other medium of publishing that I've had the pleasure of working in.
G. Willow Wilson
Fans
Community
Other
Medium
Despite
Pleasure
Criticisms
More
Both
Had
Terms
Comfortable
Accepted
Felt
Always
Comics
Been
Than
Any
Working
Creators
Publishing
Leveled
It is a great pleasure for me to take on this important role as bid ambassador for the Qatar 2022 Bid, which I believe represents an essential expansion of the FIFA ideals to a new part of the world.
Gabriel Batistuta
Great
Me
World
Important
Believe
Pleasure
Great Pleasure
Take
Part
New
Ideals
Bid
Important Role
Ambassador
Expansion
Role
Essential
Represents
Which
FIFA
It's always a real pleasure to play at Wembley.
Gabriel Jesus
Pleasure
Always
Real
Real Pleasure
Play
I'm excited for Christy Marx taking over 'Birds of Prey'. I adore 'Rachel Rising' by the great Terry Moore. I'm also a stone cold Scott Snyder fan; the guy is a joy to read and a pleasure to work with.
Gail Simone
Work
Great
Joy
Cold
Birds
Christy
Pleasure
Moore
Guy
Rising
Adore
Marx
Prey
Excited
Taking
Over
Also
Read
Terry
Scott
Stone
Fan
It's awfully nice when people thank you for the pleasure and laughter you've brought to their lives.
Gary Burghoff
You
People
Laughter
Thank You
Nice
Pleasure
Brought
Thank
Lives
I'm more and more fascinated in my own work. I work from 10 A.M. until about 9 P.M., but it's not an obsession, it's a pleasure. There's never enough time.
Gary Hume
Work
Time
Own
Enough
Enough Time
Pleasure
About
My Own
More
More And More
Never
Obsession
Until
Fascinated
We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.
Gary L. Francione
Entertainment
Animals
Defense
Our
Pleasure
Wear
Eat
Only
Purposes
Convenience
Use
Uses
Need
Amusement
The thing about acting is you don't want to let on how enjoyable it is or then everybody would want to become an actress. But it really is. It's a pleasure to go and exchange your identity.
Gena Rowlands
You
Become
Everybody
Pleasure
Would
About
Exchange
Identity
How
Go
Want
Then
Really
Acting
Your
Actress
Enjoyable
Thing
Books provide context and allow you to think about things over time. Film is like writing haiku; there is an immense amount of pleasure in paring down and paring down. But it isn't the same.
Geoffrey Ward
Time
You
Writing
Down
Think
Books
Pleasure
Immense
About
Allow
Over
Like
Context
Provide
Same
Film
Amount
Things
I mean, I can look back with great pleasure on what has happened in Sudan, and our commitment to people who are persecuted in that kind of way.
George Carey
Great
Commitment
People
Back
Our
Way
Pleasure
Kind
Great Pleasure
Look
Persecuted
Happened
Mean
Who
Sudan
Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama.
George Pierce Baker
Action
Drama
Back
Imitative
Pleasure
Find
Civilization
Through
Instinctive
Very
Essence
Barbarism
Ages
Tongues
The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature.
George Pierce Baker
Playwright
Dramatic
Pleasure
Adequate
Characterization
Memorable
Impersonate
Instinct
Dialogue
Provide
Itself
Literature
Produces
Actor
Desire
I had done some work when I was starting in with photography on westerns, and photographing them was the greatest pleasure I had. If I was ever qualified for anything, it would have had to do with making westerns. But as I started working on pictures with people like Katharine Hepburn, I got further away from the thing I really liked to do.
George Stevens
Work
Photography
People
Further
Pleasure
Would
Photographing
Some
Had
Pictures
Like
Liked
Qualified
Greatest
Got
Making
Greatest Pleasure
Westerns
Done
Anything
Them
Really
Working
Away
Ever
Hepburn
Thing
Started
Starting
I miss the BBC when I'm away. I'm away so much that it's a pleasure just walking back through the door and sitting on the sofa to watch some rubbish TV.
Geraint Thomas
Rubbish
Back
Pleasure
TV
Some
Through
Miss
Walking
Sitting
Just
Door
Just Walking
Much
Away
Watch
Sofa
When I'm depressed and I feel low thinking that good movies are not made any more, then I put on his movies and I watch them. I laugh and I cry and I have great pleasure.
Geraldine Chaplin
Good
Great
Made
Thinking
Pleasure
Laugh
Good Movies
More
Great Pleasure
Put
Feel
Cry
His
Any
Movies
Depressed
Low
Them
Then
Watch
It's a great pleasure having survived six generations of TV critics.
Geraldo Rivera
Great
Pleasure
TV
Critics
Having
Great Pleasure
Generations
Survived
Six
For better or for worse, in 'The Last Savage,' I have dared to do away completely with fashionable dissonance, and in a modest way, I have endeavored to rediscover the nobility of gracefulness and the pleasure of sweetness.
Gian Carlo Menotti
Savage
Better
Way
Worse
Pleasure
Dared
Nobility
Rediscover
Modest
Sweetness
Fashionable
Away
Last
The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
Gore Vidal
Myself
Money
Car
Typed
Pleasure
Possible
Finding
Able
Yachts
Greatest
Making
Making Money
Greatest Pleasure
Many
Started
Buying
Drafts
In terms of sheer pleasure, Tom Stoppard was very big for me because he is so funny and so smart, and it felt delicious reading him.
Greta Gerwig
Funny
Me
Smart
Big
Reading
Pleasure
Delicious
He
Terms
Him
Sheer
Because
Felt
Very
Tom
A 'treat' is different from a 'reward,' which must be justified or earned. A treat is a small pleasure or indulgence that we give to ourselves just because we want it. Treats give us greater vitality, which boosts self-control, which helps us maintain our healthy habits.
Gretchen Rubin
Treat
Reward
Healthy
Earned
Our
Pleasure
Boost
Ourselves
Must
Vitality
Give
Small
Habits
Maintain
Self-Control
Indulgence
Greater
Because
Just
Different
Just Because
Want
Which
Justified
Us
Helps
Treats
I don't hate work, composing is not work for me, it's my pleasure; it's my life. So why should I stop? If something is pleasurable and exciting and rewarding, why should one stop?
Gunther Schuller
Life
Work
Me
Hate
My Life
Pleasurable
Pleasure
Composing
Something
Exciting
Rewarding
Stop
Should
Why
This bored fantastic woman, with her animal nature, giving herself the pleasure of seeing her enemy struck down, not a particularly keen one for her because she is so weary of having all her desires satisfied.
Gustave Moreau
Nature
Woman
Animal
Enemy
Weary
Giving
Down
Satisfied
Herself
Pleasure
Bored
Seeing
Struck
Having
Particularly
She
Because
Fantastic
Keen
Her
Desires
When I am reading for research and making notes, I use a cleverly designed curved lap-desk, and I sit up dutifully, mindful of ergonomics and suchlike concepts. When reading for pleasure, I take advantage of the 'recline' in recliner.
Guy Gavriel Kay
Take Advantage
Reading
Sit
Research
Mindful
Pleasure
Take
Advantage
Concepts
Making
Am
Up
Notes
Use
Designed
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