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My grammar school caught on to the fact that the reason I was falling asleep in class was that I was doing working men's clubs till 10 or 11 at nights. My mother was told I shouldn't do it anymore. Of course, I was bringing in money to the family, so nobody liked hearing that.
Eileen Atkins
Family
Class
Money
School
Mother
Men
Nights
Fact
Nobody
Liked
Course
Till
Caught
Doing
Falling
Hearing
Anymore
Grammar
Grammar School
Clubs
Asleep
Working
Reason
Bringing
Some people say I appeared on the Phil Donahue show to tell 'my' sex change story but I've never appeared on his show for any reason... not even as a member of the studio audience.
Eileen Davidson
Change
People
Sex
Some People
Say
Member
Tell
People Say
Some
Never
Studio
Audience
His
Any
Story
Show
Reason
Even
Appeared
Phil
The reason for certain shows not doing well or as per expectations is that they were not aired on not so popular channels.
Ekta Kapoor
Channels
Per
Well
Doing
Were
Expectations
Certain
Reason
Popular
Shows
I joke that I've always had this sort of insatiable 'big sis' complex - which is odd given that I am the baby of the family with no sisters! It's the reason I have such a powerful desire to connect with girls and encourage them. So, it's a natural fit for me to have a job that's like the editorial version of an older sister to a million girls.
Elaine Welteroth
Family
Me
Natural
Job
Girl
Joke
Big
Sister
Older
Baby
Complex
Insatiable
Given
Had
Powerful
Like
Sort
Always
Am
Editorial
Odd
Encourage
Fit
Version
Sisters
Which
Them
Reason
Connect
Older Sister
Million
Desire
I had the good fortune to be in some movies when I was younger that, for whatever reason, people identified with or related with.
Elden Henson
Good
People
Whatever
Related
Some
Had
Identified
Movies
Younger
Fortune
Reason
Good Fortune
There is no reason to repeat bad history.
Eleanor Holmes Norton
History
Bad
No Reason
Repeat
Reason
There were periods when the art market got overheated, but there is no reason it should appreciate dramatically.
Eli Broad
Art
Market
Dramatically
No Reason
Periods
Got
Were
Should
Reason
Appreciate
To me, unconventional thinking is approaching a problem and asking, 'Why not? Why can't something be done?' If someone can't give me a good reason why you can't do something, I find a way to do it.
Eli Broad
Good
Me
You
Problem
Approaching
Thinking
Way
Find
Good Reason
Someone
Give
Something
Give Me
Unconventional
Done
Asking
Reason
Why
Why Not
We learn this by the precepts that Jesus left. He observed that the people were looking outward, and assured them that the kingdom of God cometh not with outward observation; and for this reason, that it was only to be known in man.
Elias Hicks
God
Man
People
Looking
Precepts
Assured
Kingdom
Only
Observation
He
Observed
Outward
Cometh
Learn
Known
Were
Left
Them
Reason
Jesus
And if we are in this state, if we had an eternity of probation, what reason have we to suppose that we should profit by it - if we had ever so long a time to chose for ourselves we should pursue our own will, to gratify our carnal I desires.
Elias Hicks
Time
Will
Long
Own
Profit
State
Our
Carnal
Ourselves
Pursue
Had
Suppose
Probation
Eternity
Should
Reason
Chose
Gratify
Ever
Desires
The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate.
Elihu Root
Government
Practice
Judgment
Considerate
Citizens
Constitute
Constitutional
Constitutional Government
Individual
Exercise
Modern
Successful
Electorate
Reason
Who
Growth
Compels
The only reason ever to make a sequel is to spend more time with the characters that people love: to tell more of their story.
Elizabeth Banks
Love
Time
People
Spend
Tell
Characters
More
Only
Make
Story
Sequel
Reason
Ever
I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Busy
Perhaps
Well
Always
Am
Chief
Which
Reason
Why
There's no reason to continue including language in the federal spending bill to prohibit the CDC and NIH from studying the causes or effects of gun violence on public health.
Elizabeth Esty
Health
Language
Gun
Prohibit
Spending
No Reason
Federal
Federal Spending
Studying
Causes
Continue
Effects
Public
Public Health
Bill
Reason
Including
Violence
I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.
Elizabeth Gaskell
Else
Say
Someone
Always
Got
Listen
Means
Reason
I have no business being a journalist. I'm the least, I'm the least - I'm the most trusting, I absolutely make a habit of believing anything that anybody tells me about themselves. I've never had any reason in the world to think that anyone has wanted to harm me, or lie to me. I believe whatever is being sold, most of the time.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Time
Me
Business
Lie
World
Journalist
Whatever
Believe
Think
Sold
No Business
Tells
About
Habit
Absolutely
Never
Had
Most
Make
Least
Trusting
Any
Anybody
Being
Wanted
Anyone
Anything
Themselves
Reason
Believing
Harm
We may never find a way to live in suburbia with deer as we do with raccoons, say, or squirrels. So for this reason, it's very important that we make sure always to save enough wild or open land so that they can live in their normal manner.
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Important
Live
Enough
Wild
Way
Say
Find
Never
Open
Make
Sure
Always
Normal
Very
Squirrels
May
Suburbia
Land
Manner
Reason
Deer
Save
Once you're known to be an alcoholic, that's how many people identify you, which could be a reason not to talk about it.
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
You
People
Once
About
Could
Talk
Identify
Known
How
How Many People
Which
Reason
Many
No other creatures of the savannah sleep as deeply or as soundly as lions, but after all, lions are the main reason for not sleeping soundly.
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Sleeping
Other
Main
Main Reason
Lions
After
Reason
Creatures
Deeply
Savannah
Sleep
We take art, and I love all that. But I also like science for some reason. I just like finding out why things happen.
Elle Fanning
Love
Art
Science
Out
Finding
Some
Take
Like
Also
Just
Happen
Reason
Why
Things
Things Happen
The reason I do what I do is because I was influenced by Steve Martin, by Woody Allen, by Bob Newhart, by Carol Burnett, by Lucille Ball.
Ellen DeGeneres
Carol
Carol Burnett
Martin
Allen
Steve
Steve Martin
Because
Ball
Influenced
Burnett
Woody
Woody Allen
Bob
Reason
Lucille
Lucille Ball
For some reason, we can't just enjoy somebody else's success. Somehow, that's going to affect us. If they have more, then I have less - and I don't know why.
Ellen DeGeneres
Success
Somebody
Enjoy
Else
Some
Somehow
More
Know
Affect
Going
Just
Then
Us
Less
Reason
Why
Love, as life, will fortunately remain an eternal mystery which no science will be able to penetrate and which reason cannot rule. Our only hope for the future is that man, endowed with a more delicate sense, will listen to the secrets of his own life.
Ellen Key
Life
Love
Hope
Future
Man
Science
Will
Own
Sense
Our
Rule
Secrets
Penetrate
Able
More
Only
Delicate
Remain
Mystery
His
Listen
Endowed
Cannot
Which
Eternal
Fortunately
Reason
It had to happen to me sometime: sooner or later, I would have to lose sight of the cutting edge. That moment every technical person fears - the fall into knowledge exhaustion, obsolescence, techno-fuddy-duddyism - there was no reason to think I could escape it forever.
Ellen Ullman
Me
Knowledge
Fears
Edge
Fall
Lose
Every
Think
Later
Sight
Would
No Reason
Sometime
Could
Had
Sooner
Sooner Or Later
Obsolescence
Exhaustion
Escape
Forever
Person
Happen
Cutting
Cutting Edge
Reason
Moment
Technical
Men, who certainly possess not only the savvy but also the know-how to be funny, for some reason, are just not. I began to notice this at a pretty young age, and unfortunately, a lifetime of living - and not a little bit of regret - hasn't done much to convince me otherwise.
Ellie Kemper
Funny
Me
Age
Regret
Men
Young
Living
Otherwise
Savvy
Bit
Possess
Some
Pretty
Only
Lifetime
Know-How
Also
Began
Done
Just
Young Age
Unfortunately
Little
Little Bit
Much
Convince
Notice
Certainly
Reason
Who
I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy.
Elon Musk
You
Physics
First
Analogy
Approach
Framework
Rather
Tend
Principles
Than
Teaches
Reason
Things
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