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My first gig ever was writing looplines for a movie that had already been made. You know, writing lines over somebody's back to explain something, to help make a connection, to add a joke, or to just add babble because the people are in frame and should be saying something.
Joss Whedon
Saying
You
People
Writing
Made
Somebody
Joke
First
Add
Frame
Back
Gig
Something
Had
Over
Know
Make
Because
Been
Lines
Just
Movie
Explain
Should
Help
Connection
Ever
Babble
What I am saying every day to Malawians is that time has come for us to move from aid to trade. We have picked several sectors that we think we can focus on immediately in order for us to grow our economy. So we have decided to diversify agriculture, we decided to develop our tourism sector, we have decided to develop our mining sector.
Joyce Banda
Saying
Time
Day
Every Day
Agriculture
Focus
Every
Think
Aid
Our
Several
Immediately
Sector
Sectors
Mining
Diversify
Develop
Picked
Tourism
Come
Economy
Trade
Am
Move
Order
Decided
Us
Grow
When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.
Joyce Carol Oates
Life
Saying
Reality
People
Too Much
Too
Books
Say
People Say
Much
Violence
For the first time since 2007 there is political momentum behind fixing the immigration system. President Obama in his State of the Union speech reached out to the right-wing by saying illegal immigrants seeking citizenship will have to pay taxes, learn English and get in line behind people who are trying to enter the United States legally.
Juan Williams
Saying
Time
People
Immigration
Political
Will
First
Pay
President
State
President Obama
States
Right-Wing
Enter
System
Out
Immigrants
Obama
Citizenship
Seeking
Since
Reached
Learn
First Time
Line
His
Fixing
Get
Trying
Legally
Behind
Taxes
Illegal
English
Union
Who
Illegal Immigrants
Momentum
United
United States
Speech
I had one girl send me an e-mail saying she wants to go out with me, but it's like a two-pronged deal because she wants to blog the date. And I'm like, No! I don't want to be on a reality show.
Judah Friedlander
Saying
Me
Reality
Girl
Out
Date
Had
Like
She
Because
Deal
Go
Blog
Send
Want
Wants
Reality Show
Show
You get further if you let your mind run free and do whatever you fancy at that particular time. I don't agree with planning far ahead and saying, 'this week I'm doing this, that week I'm doing that.'
Judi Shekoni
Saying
Time
You
Mind
Free
Whatever
Further
Run
Week
Particular
Doing
Get
Fancy
Far
Your
Planning
Agree
You really have to listen to yourself and know if what someone is saying is true for you.
Judith Light
Saying
You
Yourself
Someone
True
Know
Listen
Really
Learn graceful ways of saying no and of pointing out that this pressure to do something is not in line with most people's wishes.
Judith Martin
Saying
People
Pressure
Ways
Out
Something
Pointing
Wishes
Most
Learn
Line
Graceful
When a parent comes into school waving a book and saying, 'Take this book away. I don't like this book.' I won't say in all cases, but in many cases, that will not happen anymore. It has to go through a proper review board. The complaining parent will have to fill out a complaint, you know, put it in writing.
Judy Blume
Saying
You
Book
Writing
School
Complaining
Will
Complaint
Waving
Say
Out
Cases
Parent
Proper
Through
Take
Put
Like
Know
Go
Review
Anymore
Happen
Board
Many
Fill
Away
When I was a child, I always went to my grandmother's house in Nuremberg for Christmas. My uncle would leave the room, saying he needed the toilet, and then he would reappear dressed as Santa Claus. I was really scared - I'd have to go and hide behind an armchair.
Juergen Teller
Christmas
Saying
Hide
Uncle
Nuremberg
Would
Scared
Dressed
He
Armchair
House
Always
Leave
Go
Child
Behind
Room
Then
Grandmother
Really
Toilet
Santa
Santa Claus
Needed
Saying that something is accessible gives it this implication that people need something, and thinking that we know what people need or want is really unpleasant. I don't like to think that way, like, predicting what it is that the people want.
Julia Holter
Saying
People
Think
Thinking
Way
Unpleasant
Something
Gives
Implication
Like
Know
Accessible
Want
Predicting
Really
Need
You don't grow up saying you wanna play in the CFL.
Julian Edelman
Saying
You
Up
Wanna
Grow
Grow Up
Play
I always think I know the way a novel will go. I write maps on oversized art pads like the kind I carried around in college when I was earnest about drawing. I need to have some idea of the shape of the novel, where its headed, so that I can proceed with confidence. But the truth is my characters start doing and saying things I don't expect.
Julianna Baggott
Truth
Art
Saying
Confidence
Truth Is
Will
College
Think
Earnest
Way
Drawing
Carried
Characters
Kind
Some
About
Write
Shape
Idea
Headed
Like
Know
Around
Always
Doing
Go
Expect
Where
Proceed
Pads
Novel
Maps
Things
Start
Need
When someone says, 'I'm not political,' I feel like what they're saying is, 'I only care about myself. In my bathtub. Me and my bathtub is what I care about.'
Julianne Moore
Saying
Myself
Me
Political
Care
Bathtub
Says
About
Someone
Only
Feel
Like
If the day-to-day culture is saying it's OK to not be inclusive or tolerant, that it's OK to be bigoted, then it's your responsibility to double down and make it OK in storytelling to be inclusive and tolerant.
Julie Plec
Saying
Culture
Responsibility
Down
Inclusive
OK
Day-To-Day
Make
Storytelling
Double
Bigoted
Then
Your
Tolerant
I was raised in Austin, Texas, around trial lawyers. My friend and I - we were 14 - would go and watch her father try cases. I also heard of lot of Baptist preachers in little churches saying crazy things with such conviction.
Julie White
Saying
Crazy
Try
Father
Conviction
Trial
Churches
Trial Lawyers
Would
My Friend
Cases
Lawyers
Also
Around
Go
Were
Heard
Lot
Texas
Friend
Preachers
Austin
Baptist
Little
Crazy Things
Her
Things
Watch
Raised
You know, we always tried to rationalize by saying you take the good, you take the upside, you got to deal with the downside, you've to take the downside.
Julius Erving
Saying
Good
You
Tried
Rationalize
Take
Know
Deal
Always
Got
Upside
Downside
We get so many people saying short fiction is not economical, that it doesn't sell; but there are so many of us enjoying writing it and reading it. So it's wonderful to be around people who love short fiction too - it's like hanging around with my tribe.
Junot Diaz
Love
Saying
People
Writing
Wonderful
Reading
Too
Tribe
Economical
Like
Around
Sell
Get
Hanging
Short
So Many People
Fiction
Us
Who
Many
Enjoying
Sure I should have been at the Fifa workshop for example, but I had personal reasons for not being there and looking back saying that it was a mistake for me not being there I would take the same decision because the personal situation has higher priority than a workshop.
Jurgen Klinsmann
Saying
Me
Mistake
Decision
Example
Looking
Looking Back
Situation
Back
Would
Higher
Take
Had
For Example
Sure
Because
Priority
Been
Than
Personal
Same
Being
Personal Reasons
FIFA
Should
Being There
Reasons
Workshop
We get caught in our little silos and end up working against ourselves. And I think social media culture really encourages that, because you're really just shouting into a void hoping someone picks up on what you're saying.
Justin Simien
Saying
You
Culture
Social Media
Think
Our
Ourselves
Hoping
Someone
Void
Picks
Because
Caught
Encourages
End
Up
Get
Just
Against
Little
Social
Really
Working
Shouting
Media
I remember my mom saying, 'I will take you to every audition, I will support you, but the minute you stop caring about it, I will stop.'
Justin Timberlake
Saying
Mom
You
Remember
Will
Every
Caring
Minute
About
Take
Support
Audition
Stop
A lot of what gets on the radio isn't saying anything other than somebody wants to be famous and will do whatever they're told to get it.
Kacey Musgraves
Saying
Will
Somebody
Whatever
Other
Lot
Than
Get
Gets
Famous
Anything
Wants
Radio
I can't stand on a podium and beat my chest saying I'm the best. I just think I've been the luckiest of all. Yes, I'm talented. The movies that I've chosen and the way they've fared have also helped. I've always done films I would love to watch. I have stayed away from films which I thought were depressing.
Kajol
Love
Saying
Best
Thought
Think
Films
Way
Would
Stayed
Podium
Beat
Talented
Also
Always
Were
Been
Chest
Yes
Done
Just
Which
Movies
Depressing
Stand
Helped
Luckiest
Chosen
Away
Watch
I was always very silly and never took myself seriously. When my father had the camera out, I'd be up close and annoying. My father would keep saying, 'Move back! Move back!'
Kaley Cuoco
Saying
Myself
Seriously
Father
Took
Back
Out
Would
Silly
Never
Had
Annoying
Always
Camera
Up
Very
Close
Move
Keep
I never had a backup plan. I felt like if I had a backup plan, it was like saying to the universe that I didn't believe in myself.
Kali Uchis
Saying
Myself
Believe
Universe
Backup
Never
Had
Like
Felt
Plan
People need to realize that even the greatest jazz musicians, when they listen to jazz, they're not like, analyzing it and deconstructing it - they're enjoying it. It's like listening to any other style of music. It's saying something to you, and you kind of just absorb it.
Kamasi Washington
Music
Saying
You
Musicians
People
Listening
Style
Jazz
Other
Analyzing
Kind
Something
Absorb
Like
Greatest
Any
Listen
Just
Realize
Jazz Musicians
Even
Enjoying
Need
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