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I would just as likely be doing soccer practice as filming commercials.
Alyson Hannigan
Practice
Would
Likely
Doing
Commercials
Just
Soccer
Filming
I'd go to swim practice, put my face in the water, and I didn't have to talk to anybody. Swimming was like my escape, but it was also like this huge prison because I felt like I had to swim up to people's standards.
Amanda Beard
People
Water
Face
Practice
Prison
Swimming
Had
Put
Like
Talk
Also
Because
Felt
Go
Huge
Up
Escape
Anybody
Standards
Swim
Foot-binding, which started out as a fashionable impulse, became an expression of Han identity after the Mongols invaded China in 1279. The fact that it was only performed by Chinese women turned the practice into a kind of shorthand for ethnic pride.
Amanda Foreman
Women
Pride
Practice
Out
Kind
Invaded
Only
Fact
Performed
Identity
Became
Impulse
After
Which
China
Chinese
Shorthand
Turned
Ethnic
Expression
Fashionable
Started
I have a few close friends with whom I can practice speaking Italian, but I mostly maintain fluency through reading.
Amanda Knox
Practice
Reading
Few
Fluency
Through
Maintain
Mostly
Italian
Friends
Close
Close Friends
Speaking
Whom
Practice smiling by holding a pencil between your teeth for twenty minutes.
Amy Cuddy
Practice
Holding
Teeth
Pencil
Minutes
Between
Smiling
Your
Twenty
I sometimes work with a communications and media training firm called KNP Communications. It's nice to bring the research to the practitioners; I learn a lot watching how they put it into practice, and I know they like to be on top of what's happening on the research front.
Amy Cuddy
Work
Training
Sometimes
Practice
Research
Nice
Top
Put
Firm
Like
Know
Learn
How
Lot
Front
Happening
Communications
Media
Bring
Watching
Because I practice often with my children at home.
Andrea Bocelli
Home
Practice
Because
Often
Children
There is something comforting about going into a practice room, putting your sheet music on a stand and playing Bach over and over again.
Andrew Bird
Music
Comforting
Practice
Bach
About
Something
Putting
Over
Sheet
Going
Again
Room
Stand
Your
Playing
Business is where you practice your human skills. It's where you grow.
Andrew Cherng
You
Business
Practice
Human
Where
Skills
Your
Grow
I do radio gigs, three-minute spots, solo shows, so I still get plenty of practice at the sniper attack - me at a piano or with a guitar, having to win people over fast.
Andy Grammer
Me
People
Guitar
Win
Practice
Plenty
Solo
Gigs
Having
Attack
Piano
Over
Spots
Still
Get
Radio
Shows
Fast
I really tried to play more intensely in practice and not play like maybe two, three hours just like that. I just go to court and spend a lot of hours as well on gym, or just make a lot of sprints and movement.
Angelique Kerber
Three
Practice
Spend
Tried
Gym
More
Like
Hours
Well
Make
Court
Go
Lot
Intensely
Maybe
Just
Movement
Really
Play
Two
Confiscatory taxation enforced by threat of imprisonment is 'stealing,' a practice strongly frowned upon by our Creator.
Ann Coulter
Practice
Our
Threat
Strongly
Stealing
Imprisonment
Frowned
Taxation
Enforced
Creator
What my work is, is my approach to it. It's the practice. And my work is about the effort that I make to get there. And I think if there's anything artistic, it's in that middle space.
Anna Deavere Smith
Work
Space
Practice
Think
Approach
About
Make
Effort
Get
Artistic
Middle
Anything
Having no diplomatic representation in Washington, China has no sources which allow her to check the character of applicants and therefore makes the practice of refusing everybody from the United States.
Anna Louise Strong
Character
Practice
Everybody
States
Diplomatic
Having
Allow
Check
Makes
Sources
Representation
Refusing
Which
China
Therefore
Washington
United
United States
Her
Have you ever heard of a pianist who never had to practice - or of an architect who didn't bother to find out why buildings stand up?
Anne Stevenson
You
Practice
Out
Find
Architect
Bother
Pianist
Never
Had
Buildings
Heard
Up
Stand
Stand Up
Who
Why
Ever
The architect, Peter Arens who is the monstrous carbuncle architect, not merely did his design which had won a public competition never get built but his practice suffered financially for some years.
Anthony Holden
Competition
Practice
Design
Monstrous
Financially
Some
Architect
Never
Had
Merely
Built
His
Years
Won
Get
Did
Which
Public
Who
Peter
Suffered
If you have problems of conduct that are difficult and hard to settle, I will furnish you with solutions, for I not only know matters of practice and duty, but I even know them beforehand.
Apollonius of Tyana
You
Problems
Will
Practice
Matters
Duty
Difficult
Settle
Furnish
Solutions
Only
Know
Beforehand
Conduct
Them
Hard
Even
Virtue comes by nature, learning, and practice, and thanks to virtue, all of the aforesaid may deserve approval.
Apollonius of Tyana
Nature
Learning
Practice
Thanks
Virtue
Approval
May
Deserve
I got some experience appearing as a guest on several news channels, and I thought over the years I would be able to mix practicing law and writing with providing analysis on TV. I didn't know that would lead to a full-time opportunity that would take me away from my law practice. When MSNBC made me an offer to join, I jumped at it.
Ari Melber
News
Me
Experience
Writing
Law
Opportunity
Thought
Made
Practice
Analysis
Channels
Guest
Several
TV
Would
Would-Be
Able
Some
Join
Take
Lead
Over
Know
Practicing
Got
Mix
Years
Providing
Offer
Full-Time
Appearing
Away
When you campaign and have to participate in so many debates just to the win the nomination of your party, you've had a lot of practice. You get to figure out as you go from one debate to another where you made your mistakes. By the time you get to the big debate you're pretty polished.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Time
You
Win
Debate
Made
Mistakes
Practice
Big
Party
Out
Pretty
Had
Participate
Nomination
Another
Polished
Go
Lot
Campaign
Debates
Get
Just
Where
Your
Figure
Many
By The Time
I think generally the Japanese players have more intensity in practice but generally I do the same things.
Arsene Wenger
Practice
Think
More
Generally
Same
Intensity
Same Things
Japanese
Things
Players
I compete against myself in competitions anyway, so I train against myself in practice.
Ashton Eaton
Myself
Practice
Train
Anyway
Against
Compete
Competitions
The heptathlon world record is nice, but the decathlon is the event. I think the heptathlon is more like a practice. There is something completely different about the decathlon.
Ashton Eaton
World
Practice
Nice
Think
Record
About
Something
More
Like
Decathlon
Different
Event
World Record
Doctors quickly learn that how much they make has little to do with how good they are. It largely depends on how they handle the business side of their practice.
Atul Gawande
Good
Business
Doctors
Practice
Side
Make
Learn
How
How Much
Quickly
Handle
Depends
Little
Much
Business Side
Largely
I used to practice Tony speeches in my bathroom with my hairbrush.
Audra McDonald
Practice
Bathroom
Used
Speeches
Tony
I loved my time doing 'Private Practice' in Los Angeles, and I was quite challenged and excited to learn about the art of television, but I missed being on the stage.
Audra McDonald
Art
Time
Practice
Stage
Television
Angeles
About
My Time
Excited
Missed
Learn
Doing
Los
Los Angeles
Private
Quite
Being
Loved
Challenged
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