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In the original script, my character was a basketball player rather than a boxer. I didn't think I could pull that off. I'm a little short to be a basketball player! Eddie Murphy
Character Think Rather Could Boxer Off Than Short Script Little Original Player Pull Basketball Basketball Player
I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars. Eddie Rickenbacker
Would Rather Dollars Friends Than Million Million Dollars
Long practise in driving a racing car at a hundred miles an hour or so gives first-class training in control and judging distances at high speed and helps tremendously in getting motor sense, which is rather the feel of your engine than the sound of it, a thing you get through your bones and nerves rather than simply your ears. Eddie Rickenbacker
You Training Car Long Control Sense Speed Tremendously Distances Hundred Ears High Nerves Rather Gives Through Driving Simply Feel Hour Judging Practise Sound Motor Than Get Getting Which Racing Your Miles Engine Helps Thing Bones
David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music. Eddie Van Halen
Music Home You Song Feeling Half Stupid Own Else Dancing Way Way Home Van Would Van Halen Someone My Own Rather David Had Songs Idea Like Halen Doing Were Covered Lee Than Successful Roth Bomb Streets Started Playing
A lot of people think I'm really outgoing and confident, but I'm not. I'd much rather sit in a corner and read my book and my paper. I'm quite happy with my own company. Eddie the Eagle
Happy Book People Sit Own Think Corner Paper Outgoing My Own Rather Read Lot Quite Confident Much Really Company
You'll never see me with a precision flick of eyeliner. Messy eyeliner became my thing by accident rather than design. If you can't get it straight, then just work it in around your eyes. Edie Campbell
Work Me You Eyes Accident Design See Rather Never Became Around Messy Than Get Precision Just Straight Then Your Flick Thing
Some praise me because I am a colored girl, and I don't want that kind of praise. I had rather you would point out my defects, for that will teach me something. Edmonia Lewis
Me You Will Girl Out Kind Would Some Something Rather Point Colored Had Because Am Praise Want Teach Defects
The colonial period has been the proving ground in America for the new social history, which concentrates on the ordinary doings of ordinary people rather than on high culture and high politics. Unfortunately ordinary people, almost by definition, leave behind only faint traces of their existence. Edmund Morgan
Politics History Culture People Definition Has-Been High Rather Only Colonial Almost New Faint Period Traces Leave Been Existence Proving Than America Behind Unfortunately Ordinary Which Ordinary People Social Ground
No amount of debt restructuring, even debt forgiveness, will help the Greeks achieve real prosperity. What they need is not short-term relief but, rather, a long-term cure. Edmund Phelps
Forgiveness Prosperity Achieve Will Relief Rather Restructuring Long-Term Real Debt Cure Greeks Short-Term Help Even Amount Need
Most writers tend to get worse rather than better. I'm determined to be one that gets better. Edmund White
Better Worse Determined Rather Tend Writers Most Than Get Gets
Republicans' focus on defunding or scaling back Obamacare - an unpopular entitlement program - rather than entitlements generally, namely Social Security and Medicare, has raised questions about their true objective. But critics forget that spending is fungible. Edward Conard
Entitlement Focus Back Spending Scaling Security Obamacare Critics Unpopular About Objective Rather Generally True Namely Questions Than Forget Republicans Social Social Security Medicare Raised Program
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Teacher Best Wish Rather Inspires Himself His Than Listener Teach Who
If I target for example an email address, for example under FAA 702, and that email address sent something to you, Joe America, the analyst gets it. All of it. IPs, raw data, content, headers, attachments, everything. And it gets saved for a very long time - and can be extended further with waivers rather than warrants. Edward Snowden
Time You Example Long Long Time Saved Analyst Everything Address Email Further Joe Something Data Rather Raw For Example Content Target Very Very Long Time Than America Gets Sent Extended
If you take away scale, the nature of the story changes. I made a joke the other day: if I were to try to make 'Glory' now, rather than be about a regiment, it would be about a platoon. It would be seven men in the woods rather than all the men on the beach. Edward Zwick
Day Nature You Try Made Men Joke Other Changes Seven Scale Would Would-Be About Beach Rather Take Make Glory Were Than Woods Story Regiment Now Platoon Away
There seem to be two sorts of actors. Some people play themselves marvellously, and others, like me, rather like to become someone else. Eileen Atkins
Me People Some People Become Others Else Some Seem Someone Rather Like Sort Themselves Actor Play Two
I'd rather make my own mistakes and pay for them rather than pay for mistakes that are formulistic. Ekta Kapoor
Mistakes Own Pay My Own Rather Make Than Them
I'd much rather see Richard Pryor or Jackie Mason in a theater than in a club. Elayne Boosler
Club See Rather Mason Than Jackie Pryor Theater Richard Much Richard Pryor
It is less fun to talk about what I am feeling rather than what I am thinking. Saying 'I feel awesome' isn't really interesting or enquiring. Eleanor Catton
Saying Feeling Awesome Thinking About Rather Feel Talk Am Than Interesting Really Less Fun
I'd rather be a face for happiness and doing things that you have a passion for, rather than faking it and pretending like I'm this face of women's basketball, when I can't stand the sport at all. Elena Delle Donne
Happiness You Women Passion Pretending Face Rather Like Sport Faking Doing Than Stand Things Basketball
In Austria, a rather authoritarian Catholic country, the role of the social admonisher traditionally fell to artists because there were no great political thinkers. Elfriede Jelinek
Great Political Country Rather Fell Catholic Because Were Austria Authoritarian Role Artists Social Thinkers
People would rather have art or gold instead of paper money. Eli Broad
Art People Money Paper Would Rather Instead Gold
Rather than saying people aren't interested when things don't take off, you should take it on yourself to say, 'I'm not doing a great job of telling the story in a way that makes it interesting.' Eli Pariser
Saying Great You Yourself People Job Way Say Telling Great Job Rather Take Makes Doing Off Than Story Interested Interesting Should Things
Reading Epictetus, I realized that most of the pain in my life came not from any actual privations or insults but, rather, from the shame of thinking that they could have been avoided. Elif Batuman
Life My Life Reading Pain Thinking Rather Shame Could Most Insults Came Been Any Realized Avoided Actual
As much as my primary vocation is that of an actor, if anything, I feel like I am more excited about filmmaking in general, so it's not always a specific role that I'm attracted to, but rather an entire piece that I want to be a part of. Elijah Wood
Entire About Vocation General Rather More Part Excited Primary Feel Like Piece Attracted Always Am Role Want Anything Much Actor Specific Filmmaking
The older I've gotten, the more I've gotten a little precious about music-related films as it comes to biopics. I kind of don't want to see it; I'd rather see a documentary. And this is just coming from me. I love music documentaries; I kind of don't want to see people embodying those people. Elijah Wood
Love Music Me People Older Films Those Kind See About Rather More Documentaries Documentary Gotten Coming Precious Just Want Little
I heard that people were really interested in the new haircut, which I think is so funny. Great haircut, I really like it. It goes great with the time period. And I was super, super, super-happy to have my bangs swept to the side rather than straight in front of me, which I dealt with for three seasons. I'm very, very much done with that. Elisabeth Moss
Funny Time Great Me People Three Think Side Super Rather Haircut New Like Period Dealt Were Heard Time Period Very Than Goes Bangs Done Front Which Interested Straight Much Really Swept Seasons
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