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He wants to live on through something-and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. all of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world.
Arthur Miller
Son
World
Live
Case
More
Poignant
Through
He
Anonymous
Masterpiece
His
Get
Gets
Want
Wants
Us
Medicine may be the lens through which I see the world, but since I think of medicine as 'life +', a place where life is exaggerated and seen at its most vital and poignant, I'll be writing about life more than I will be writing about medicine.
Abraham Verghese
Life
Writing
World
Will
Seen
Think
Medicine
See
Vital
Exaggerated
About
More
Poignant
Through
Since
Most
Than
May
Where
Place
Which
Lens
I just love the days when you come out of the archives with half a dozen excellent descriptions or poignant accounts of personal experiences.
Antony Beevor
Love
You
Half
Out
Archives
Poignant
Excellent
Days
Come
Accounts
Personal
Personal Experiences
Just
Experiences
Descriptions
Dozen
Any work that is born out of natural serendipity or reverts to simpler times is poignant for people - in any era.
Cai Guo-Qiang
Work
Natural
People
Out
Born
Poignant
Simpler
Era
Times
Any
Serendipity
Would I have watched another season of 'Breaking Bad'? Of course. Would I have watched another two seasons of 'Breaking Bad'? Of course. The fact that I would easily have watched much, much more than I got made the ending so much more poignant and stronger and better for me.
D. B. Weiss
Me
Better
Ending
Made
Stronger
Easily
Bad
Would
More
Fact
Poignant
Another
Course
Got
Than
Breaking
Breaking Bad
Much
Season
Seasons
Watched
Two
For me, music is about expressing the inexpressible, and as I get older, man, what I feel the need to express becomes less and less poignant to others.
Devin Townsend
Music
Me
Man
Older
Others
About
Poignant
Feel
Becomes
Inexpressible
Get
Less
Express
Expressing
Older Man
Need
The events of the Civil War are so odd, ferocious, and poignant that fictional characters do well simply to inhabit them.
Donald McCaig
War
Events
Characters
Civil
Civil War
Poignant
Simply
Well
Odd
Ferocious
Fictional
Them
Inhabit
People should go see 'Premium' because it's a great story about love and the person who shaped us as the people we eventually become. There are a bunch of laughs as well as poignant thinking moments. It's a story about the human experience, and so many people can relate to it. Plus we need the money!
Dorian Missick
Love
Great
Experience
People
Money
Become
Thinking
Relate
Laughs
See
Plus
About
Poignant
Shaped
Great Story
Well
Because
Go
Bunch
Person
Human
So Many People
Story
Human Experience
Us
Should
Premium
Who
Many
Moments
Eventually
Need
Coming back in that AFC Championship Game against the Steelers, that was a poignant moment for me for a lot of reasons - the magnitude of the game and having not been able to play for quite a while and to be able to get on the field for that game. That one stands out.
Drew Bledsoe
Me
Game
Field
Back
Out
Able
Having
Poignant
Magnitude
Coming
Been
Lot
Get
Quite
Quite A While
While
Against
Moment
Reasons
Stands
Play
Championship
I find it amusing on one level, poignant on another, when people try to get recognition from an outside source. It's sad.
Grace Slick
Sad
People
Try
Recognition
Find
Poignant
Outside
Another
Source
Get
Level
Amusing
We sat down and told stories that happened to us in our childhood, to our children. They were all basically based on the truth. These stories were funny and poignant to us. They just took off. These are all stories from my life.
Howie Mandel
Life
Funny
Truth
My Life
Down
Took
Our
Poignant
Were
Off
Childhood
Just
Children
Stories
Happened
Us
Sat
Based
Basically
When I hear somebody like Hayes Carll write a song that's touching and poignant and sad and funny all at the same time, it motivates me to step my game up and try to figure out a way to get more different emotions into one line or one song.
Jason Isbell
Sad
Funny
Time
Me
Game
Song
Emotions
Try
Somebody
Way
One Line
Out
Touching
More
Poignant
Write
Step
Like
Motivates
Line
Hear
Up
Get
Same
Same Time
Different
Different Emotions
Figure
Iggy Pop is legendary - he is awesome - and I am a massive Bruce Springsteen fan. His song 'Cautious Man' is my favourite song. It's really poignant, dark, and moody, like myself.
Jimmy Barnes
Myself
Man
Moody
Song
Dark
Awesome
Favourite
Bruce
Bruce Springsteen
Poignant
He
Like
Massive
Am
Springsteen
His
Cautious
Legendary
Fan
Really
Pop
Iggy
Everything about 'Hugo' to me is poignant, from the broken orphan to the old man losing his past to the fragility of film itself.
John Logan
Me
Broken
Man
Losing
Old
Past
Everything
About
Poignant
His
Itself
Hugo
Old Man
Film
Orphan
Fragility
In college, when a girlfriend asks you to watch a film in black and white, you do it. That's when I discovered a lot of films. I was really obsessed with Bergman, the whole world he creates. One that I always quote a lot is 'Autumn Sonata.' When you see women go through issues with their mom, you realize how right and poignant Bergman was.
Jonás Cuarón
Mom
You
Women
World
Black
Black And White
College
Autumn
White
Films
Bergman
See
Girlfriend
Poignant
Through
Sonata
He
Obsessed
Always
How
Go
Issues
Discovered
Lot
Quote
Realize
Ask
Really
Creates
Whole
Film
Right
Watch
Of all the memories I have of my father and of our relationship, none is warmer and more poignant than what happened a year before he died, when he came to visit me while I was teaching at West Point Grey Academy in Vancouver.
Justin Trudeau
Me
Relationship
Memories
Father
Year
Before
Our
Visit
Vancouver
More
Poignant
Point
He
Academy
None
Came
West
West Point
Than
Died
Grey
Happened
While
Warmer
Teaching
Anything written in the French Revolution, that kind of era, is so poignant.
Katherine Langford
Revolution
Kind
Poignant
Written
French
French Revolution
Era
Anything
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Good
Few
Poignant
Sorrows
However
Which
Avail
Income
The disasters of war can be infinitely eerie and poignant.
Michael Leunig
War
Poignant
Disasters
Infinitely
Astonishingly powerful and poignant, 'Gravity' is the rarest of rares: a space survival film informed by a genuine reverence for the awe-inspiring cosmos we inhabit.
Nick Sagan
Survival
Space
Rarest
Cosmos
Poignant
Powerful
Genuine
Reverence
Informed
Inhabit
Film
Awe-Inspiring
Gravity
What I really like is an intelligent review. It doesn't have to be positive. A review that has some kind of insight, and sometimes people say something that's startling or is so poignant.
Patti Smith
Positive
People
Sometimes
Say
Kind
Insight
People Say
Some
Something
Poignant
Like
Review
Intelligent
Really
Startling
I'm at an age where crying is easier for me now. I like it. I can cry at a poignant commercial; I can cry at a - this is a running joke in my house, but... a good 'Star-Spangled Banner' can make me cry. I'm not kidding.
Ray Romano
Good
Me
Age
Joke
Kidding
Easier
Running
Poignant
Like
Cry
House
Crying
Make
Commercial
Where
Banner
Now
Songs are great. I love songs. I sing them in the shower sometimes. They can be poignant or cheery or angry, and they can have catchy and satisfying melodies. There's nothing wrong with songs.
Russell Smith
Love
Great
Angry
Sometimes
Love Songs
Nothing
Melodies
Poignant
Songs
Wrong
Catchy
Sing
Them
Shower
Satisfying
I only photograph myself at poignant moments in my life as a check of where I am and how large my thighs are.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
Life
Myself
My Life
Photograph
Only
Poignant
Check
How
Am
Where
Large
Moments
Thighs
I want music to move me, and I don't think it can do that without at least a link to tonality. It's the tug between atonal and tonal which makes music poignant.
Stephen Hough
Music
Me
Think
Poignant
Between
Without
Makes
Least
Link
Move
Tug
Want
Which
Tonal
Tonality
'Baskets' is incredible - 'Baskets' is so funny and poignant and sad and dark.
Thomas Middleditch
Sad
Funny
Dark
Incredible
Poignant
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