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For example, I was discussing the use of email and how impersonal it can be, how people will now email someone across the room rather than go and talk to them. But I don't think this is laziness, I think it is a conscious decision people are making to save time.
Margaret J. Wheatley
Time
People
Decision
Will
Example
Laziness
Think
Email
Someone
Rather
Impersonal
For Example
Talk
How
Making
Go
Than
Discussing
Room
Them
Across
Use
Now
Conscious
Conscious Decision
Save
I am really chained to my computer these days so I work in my bedroom, which is a room I have worked in for years and years. It is just as much an office as a bedroom, and during the day, my bed is rather like an extension of my desk.
Margaret Mahy
Work
Day
Rather
Computer
Days
Like
Bed
Am
Bedroom
Years
Years And Years
Office
Just
Just As Much
Which
Room
Worked
Much
Really
Chained
Extension
Desk
Melville locked himself away in his room for months while working on 'Moby Dick.' If I ever decide to write a novel, I hope someone will take pity on me and take me out to dinner instead.
Marge Simon
Hope
Me
Will
Dinner
Months
Locked
Out
Someone
Write
Take
Instead
Himself
His
Moby
Moby Dick
Pity
Decide
While
Room
Working
Novel
Away
Ever
Chemistry is so important and so unpredictable. Sometimes you get in a room with someone where aesthetically you make perfect sense as a couple, and then you read, and you're both kind of sitting there like, 'This isn't working for some strange reason; it just doesn't really pop.'
Margot Robbie
You
Strange
Sometimes
Important
Chemistry
Sense
Kind
Unpredictable
Some
Someone
Both
Perfect
Like
Couple
Make
Read
Aesthetically
Get
Sitting
Just
Where
Room
Then
Really
Pop
Working
Reason
I don't think much about politics as such because it has no room in our working processes. Eventually, our cases will have to stand up in court. And court will hear nothing about politics.
Margrethe Vestager
Politics
Will
Nothing
Think
Our
About
Cases
Because
Court
Hear
Up
Processes
Room
Much
Working
Stand
Stand Up
Eventually
A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of getting into print.
Marguerite Yourcenar
Family
Sometimes
Beginning
Young
Other
Musician
Scales
Bores
Only
Writer
Misfortune
Print
His
Hand
Getting
Room
Plays
All my life I've had a weight problem. As a child, I loved to eat. I would hide from my mother and drink whole cans of condensed milk in my room.
Maria Conchita Alonso
Life
Problem
Hide
Mother
My Life
All My Life
Would
Eat
Drink
Had
Weight
Condensed
Child
Loved
Cans
Room
Whole
Milk
We all know the sense of comfort of which we are conscious when a good half of the floor space in a room is unencumbered; this seems to offer us the agreeable possibility of moving about freely.
Maria Montessori
Good
Space
Half
Sense
Possibility
About
Seems
Freely
Know
Comfort
Offer
Unencumbered
Which
Moving
Room
Us
Agreeable
Floor
Conscious
I survived many a youth hostel bunk room reading Tolstoy by flashlight.
Maria Semple
Youth
Reading
Hostel
Bunk
Survived
Room
Many
Tolstoy
I'm consistently blown away by 'Mad Men.' Having spent so much time in the writers' room, I'm cursed in that anytime I watch something, I'm always calculating what the writers are up to.
Maria Semple
Time
Men
Spent
Consistently
Mad
Mad Men
Something
Having
Writers
Calculating
Always
Up
Blown
Blown Away
So Much Time
Cursed
Anytime
Room
Much
Away
Watch
Much of the time in the writer's room is spent working on story, and I was always challenging myself to make it more interesting, tighter and more surprising: to come at it sideways in a way that the audience wasn't expecting.
Maria Semple
Time
Myself
Sideways
Way
Spent
More
Writer
Come
Make
Tighter
Audience
Always
Surprising
Expecting
Story
Interesting
Room
Much
Working
Challenging
I don't spend a lot of my time in the locker room. That's my least favourite place in the world.
Maria Sharapova
Time
World
Spend
Locker
Locker Room
Favourite
Favourite Place
My Time
Least
Lot
Place
Room
I think it's so cool to be tall. Even when I'm not wearing heels people tell me I'm tall and I always take it as a complement. The good thing is I can always see everybody in the room.
Maria Sharapova
Good
Me
People
Think
Everybody
Complement
Tell
See
Wearing
Good Thing
Take
Tall
Always
Heels
Room
Cool
Even
Thing
I, I am my own woman. I have not been, quote, 'bred' to look the other way. I look at that man back there in the green room straight on, eyes wide open, and I look at him with an open heart.
Maria Shriver
Man
Woman
Heart
Eyes
Own
Other
Back
Way
My Own
Open
Look
Him
Am
Been
Green
Quote
Room
Straight
Bred
Wide
In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of them, no toleration of them.
Marie Louise
Will
Animals
Few
Earth
More
Allowed
Generations
Room
Them
Toleration
Need
I'm the sort of person who would be perfectly happy spending an entire day in a rare books room.
Marie Rutkoski
Day
Happy
Rare
Spending
Books
Would
Would-Be
Entire
Perfectly
Sort
Person
Room
Who
But the experience that I had, which was basically just feeling loved and taken care of in a room full of thousands of people I didn't know, seemed to be a pretty strong sign that what I was doing was a good thing.
Mariel Hemingway
Good
Experience
People
Strong
Care
Feeling
Sign
Thousands
Thousands Of People
Pretty
Seemed
Good Thing
Had
Taken
Know
Doing
Just
Loved
Which
Room
Full
Thing
Basically
Leave me in a room with some crayons and I'll draw on the wall.
Marilyn Manson
Me
Draw
Some
Leave
Wall
Crayons
Room
In the late '80s, I think my vision was chasing people out of the room. Nobody else thought like this. I was really this pro-sex feminist.
Marilyn Minter
People
Vision
Thought
Chasing
Think
Else
Late
Out
Nobody
Nobody Else
Like
Feminist
Room
Really
I hate kitchens. I don't understand these enormous American kitchens that take up half the living room and then they just order pizza.
Marina Abramovic
Hate
Half
Living
Enormous
Kitchens
Take
Understand
Up
American
Just
Order
Pizza
Room
Then
Living Room
When you are in the studio, you don't have anybody to feed off of; meanwhile, when you are playing live, you interact with people and you feel the energy in the room. When the crowd is going crazy, that definitely impacts your vocal performance. I prefer to sing live.
Marina and the Diamonds
Crazy
You
People
Energy
Live
Definitely
Impacts
Vocal
Crowd
Studio
Feed
Feel
Performance
Sing
Off
Going
Going Crazy
Anybody
Interact
Prefer
Room
Your
Meanwhile
Playing
Generally, when I tell people I'm a painter, they ask me if I have a card: 'Yes, we'd like this room in this color.' I still might get cards that say 'Mark Bradford. Painter.'
Mark Bradford
Me
People
Mark
Say
Tell
Color
Generally
Like
Still
Yes
Get
Room
Might
Ask
Painter
Card
Cards
I never expected to run into a room and suddenly I belonged. I figured people who live on the fringes of society, they're more free. They can choose to visit anywhere; they don't belong to anywhere. It's like being without a nation, in a way.
Mark Bradford
People
Free
Nation
Live
Society
Way
Visit
Run
More
Never
Like
Without
Expected
Being
Anywhere
Room
Choose
Figured
Who
Suddenly
Belong
Belonged
Culture is very important to the Mavs. Your best player has to be a fit for what you want the culture of the team to be. He has to be someone who leads by example. Someone who sets the tone in the locker room and on the court. It isn't about who talks the most or the loudest. It is about the demeanor and attitude he brings.
Mark Cuban
Attitude
Best
You
Culture
Example
Important
Loudest
Sets
Locker
Locker Room
About
Someone
He
Leads
Demeanor
Most
Talks
Court
Fit
Very
Want
Room
Your
Team
Who
Player
Tone
Brings
When I think of myself interacting with material that I like, that's the material that inherently appeals to me, that gives me room to have my own reaction.
Mark Frost
Myself
Me
Own
Think
My Own
Gives
Like
Reaction
Material
Interacting
Room
Inherently
Appeals
Shortly after her feeding tube is removed, Terri Schiavo receives the Catholic ceremony of last rites. Michael Schiavo stays in a room down the hall. He remains at his wife's side throughout the day, except when her immediate family comes to see Terri.
Mark Fuhrman
Day
Family
Wife
Down
Side
Immediate
See
Stays
Except
Remains
Rites
Throughout
He
Feeding
Terri
Catholic
Hall
His
Michael
Tube
After
Room
Ceremony
Her
Receives
Last
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