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I always wanted to get out of Tokyo and in 1977, New York seemed like the most interesting place to visit. I didn't intend to live here- I just wanted to get out and see what was happening. I just happened to stay here then. Ikue Mori

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When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That's how they sounded to me. It seemed pretentious to sound any other way. I wasn't making any kind of political statement. Irvine Welsh

Me Political Pretentious Other Statement Way Characters Kind Seemed How Making Sound Came Off Political Statement Any Any Other Way Started

My first yak was fairly quiet and looked a noble steed with my Mexican saddle and gay blanket among rather than upon his thick black locks. His back seemed as broad as that of an elephant, and with his slow, sure, resolute step, he was like a mountain in motion. Isabella Bird

Gay Black Slow First Back Broad Locks Seemed Rather Blanket He Step Noble Saddle Like Looked Fairly Sure Motion His Mexican Mountain Than Quiet Thick Elephant Among Resolute

I knew that my dollhouse was a toy, but in a way, it seemed more like a portal to adulthood. I didn't play with it the way I might with my Barbie dream house. Instead, I furnished it. I kept it pristine. I decorated the house for each season. I had jack-o'-lanterns in the fall and a Christmas tree with working lights in the winter. J. Courtney Sullivan

Christmas Winter Fall Christmas Tree Tree Furnished Way Dream Seemed More Had Adulthood Knew Instead Lights Like Toy House Pristine Might Barbie Decorated Working Each Season Play Kept

The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai. J. G. Ballard

War Abstract Art Art Me Strange World Key Painting Threat Seemed Postwar Shanghai Abstract Reminded Well Cubism Ambiguity Offer Modern Childhood Movement Whole Nuclear Nuclear War

I don't think any particular painters have inspired me, except in a general sense. It was more a matter of corroboration. The visual arts, from Manet onwards, seemed far more open to change and experiment than the novel, though that's only partly the fault of the writers. There's something about the novel that resists innovation. J. G. Ballard

Me Change Innovation Fault Matter Sense Experiment Think Though Visual Visual Arts About Seemed Something General More Only Except General Sense Inspired Writers Open Particular Partly Than Any Arts Far Painters Novel

Growing up in inner-city Glasgow, it sometimes seemed to me money hadn't been invented. Jack Bruce

Me Money Sometimes Seemed Invented Glasgow Been Up Growing Growing Up

I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell. Jack Vance

Writing Seemed Since Like Wrote Felt Sell Just

I'd always avoided stuff like 'Where are they now?' or 'Whatever happened to?' Just 'No thanks, thanks for calling.' You tell me, have you ever seen a 'Whatever happened to' where they seemed anything but pathetic? Jackie Earle Haley

Me You Seen Whatever Thanks Tell Seemed Stuff Like Calling Always Pathetic Just Where Anything Happened Avoided Now Ever

I don't think I made it clear where I was mentally when I appeared on 'X Factor.' There was so much pressure and a lot of judging. But I wanted to take a chance on the show because I wanted to make something of myself. 'X Factor' seemed like the only way out. James Arthur

Myself Pressure Made Think Way Out Seemed Something Only Mentally Factor Take Take A Chance Clear Like Make Because Judging Lot Where Wanted Much Show Appeared Chance

Mr. Trump's election has caused a tectonic shift in advertising - just as it has in media more generally - and themes that might have once seemed innocuous or patriotic have suddenly become politically charged, controversial, and divisive. James B. Stewart

When William the Conqueror commissioned a great survey of his English realm at Gloucester in 1085, the result was a work so thorough, fair, dispassionate, and wide-ranging that it seemed to the succeeding generations to have come from another world. James Buchan

Work Great World Result Thorough William Seemed Generations Fair Come Another His Survey Commissioned Succeeding Realm English Dispassionate Conqueror

As a child, when I lost things such as my precious pocketknife, I learned that if I prayed hard enough, I could usually find it. I was always able to find the lost cows I was entrusted with. Sometimes I had to pray more than once, but my prayers always seemed to be answered. James E. Faust

It is inconceivable that even the gang who runs Russia would be willing to take on war, but one always has to remember that there seemed to be no reason in 1939 for Hitler to start war, and yet he did, and he started it with a world practically unprepared. James Forrestal

War World Remember Willing Would Would-Be Runs Unprepared Russia Seemed No Reason Take He Practically Always Did Reason Who Gang Even Inconceivable Start Started

Girls didn't really take much interest in me until I was about 14. But I knew how to talk to them very quickly. What I figured out - that my friends didn't - was you have to talk to women like you're not constantly trying to have sex with them. That seemed to work. James McAvoy

Work Me You Women Sex Girl Out Constantly About Seemed Take Knew Like Talk Until How Friends Very Quickly Trying Interest Them Much Really Figured

It seemed to me that I could write commercial fiction. I wasn't sure whether I could, or whether I wanted to write serious fiction at that point. So I said, 'Let me try something else,' and I wrote a mystery - but I didn't know much about it. James Patterson

Acting is a great way to make a living, especially when I consider what my alternatives were and probably still are. I mean, you are only making movies. It is a lot less pressure than being a surgeon; although it seemed like the only other thing that I was qualified for was manual labour. James Spader

Great You Surgeon Pressure Living Other Consider Way Seemed Only Like Qualified Make Great Way Alternatives Although Making Still Making Movies Were Lot Than Labour Being Movies Mean Acting Manual Less Thing

I didn't go to graduate school, where all the important writers seemed to be getting their start. I didn't pursue getting published in literary magazines. I didn't even send out countless pitch letters and manuscripts to agents. Jami Attenberg

At the art college in Edinburgh someone arranged for some London groups to come up and play. I was in a supporting band, with Bernie Green I think. Derek Bailey was one of the visiting musicians. He seemed to like my playing and asked me to come down to London. Jamie Muir

Art Me Musicians College Band Down Think Visiting London Some Seemed Someone He Supporting Bailey Come Like Edinburgh Arranged Art College Up Green Asked Groups Play Playing

I started to write as a child as soon as I could read, or even before, when my mother read me Beatrix Potter at bedtime. Writing seemed to me to be the only sensible way to live and be happy. Jane Gardam

War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history; it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups. Jane Goodall

War Me History Behavior First Back Characteristic Purely Seemed Date Records Had Written Almost Always Very Accounts Human Human Behavior Warlike Human History Groups Universal

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