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Of all the stars whom I worked with, I think Steve knew better what worked for him on the screen than any other. He had such a sense of what he could register, and that helped a lot in terms of shaping the character and the script.
Robert Wise
Character
Better
Sense
Stars
Think
Other
Could
Had
Shaping
He
Knew
Steve
Terms
Him
Lot
Than
Any
Screen
Script
Register
Worked
Helped
Whom
I play music a lot but on my own mostly, so it was nice to be around other people. There was a certain sense a relief in the physical act of just playing and being with other musicians.
Robert Wyatt
Music
Musicians
People
Own
Sense
Nice
Other
Relief
Physical
My Own
Mostly
Around
Lot
Just
Being
Certain
Act
Play
Play Music
Playing
USC Film School always had a real sense of drama and lineage.
Robert Zemeckis
School
Sense
Drama
Had
Always
Real
Lineage
Real Sense
USC
Film
Film School
A certain rough-around-the-edges improvisational looseness - a sense of something coming together before your eyes, or not quite - may be one of the things that distinguishes performance art from theater.
Roberta Smith
Art
Together
Eyes
Before
Sense
Distinguishes
One Of The Things
Something
Performance
Performance Art
Coming
Improvisational
Quite
May
Theater
Certain
Your
Things
Human beings can only make sense of the world through the lens they were socialized to make sense of it through.
Robin DiAngelo
World
Sense
Only
Through
Make
Were
Human
Human Beings
Lens
Beings
Socialized
We are extremely concerned that early voting totals may have been leaked in Bladen County as reported by 'The Charlotte Observer.' This action by election officials would be a fundamental violation of the sense of fair play, honesty, and integrity that the Republican Party stands for.
Robin Hayes
Integrity
Honesty
Voting
Election
Party
Sense
Action
Extremely
Would
Would-Be
Charlotte
Observer
Fair
Leaked
Fair Play
County
Concerned
Been
Reported
Officials
May
Republican
Republican Party
Stands
Fundamental
Play
Early
Violation
I had lost a clear sense of the vision and values instilled in me as a child and was no longer driven by any mission or passion. I made the difficult decision to pull back from the noise of my life and reinvent the way I was living and leading.
Robin S. Sharma
Life
Me
Noise
Vision
Passion
Decision
Values
Made
My Life
Lost
Sense
Living
Difficult
Back
Way
Driven
Had
Clear
Instilled
Leading
Longer
Mission
Child
Any
Reinvent
Pull
I remember when 'Deadwood' had first come out, there was this whole deer-in-the-headlights sense of feeling really uncomfortable with being recognized in public.
Robin Weigert
Remember
First
Feeling
Sense
Recognized
Out
Uncomfortable
Had
Remember When
Come
Deadwood
Being
Public
Really
Whole
When you're listening to club music, there's no reward. The reward isn't, 'Oh, here's the chorus, here's the lyric that makes sense.' You have to enjoy what it is. You have to enjoy that there's no conclusion.
Robyn
Music
You
Reward
Listening
Sense
Club
Enjoy
Lyric
Makes
Conclusion
Oh
Chorus
Here
That odd idea that one person can go to a foreign part and in this rather odd voice describe it to the folks back home doesn't make much sense in the post-colonial world.
Robyn Davidson
Home
World
Sense
Back
Folks
Rather
Voice
Part
Idea
Make
Foreign
Odd
Go
Person
Much
Describe
If you can appeal to another person's sense of humor, you can introduce ideas, thoughts, things that they may disagree with or not believe in. At least they'll listen.
Rocky Carroll
Thoughts
You
Sense Of Humor
Disagree
Humor
Sense
Believe
Introduce
Ideas
Another
Least
Person
Listen
May
Appeal
Things
Whatever happened to a sense of idealism and embracing an idea that will help people and, in this case, children?
Rod Blagojevich
People
Will
Whatever
Sense
Embracing
Case
Idea
Idealism
Children
Happened
Help
Help People
I always say to my students that being a scientist is like being an explorer, and I really mean that because, in a sense, I think in science we explore the world, the universe around us.
Roderick MacKinnon
Science
World
Sense
Think
Universe
Say
Students
Like
Because
Around
Always
Scientist
Being
Mean
Us
Really
Explore
Explorer
Certainly, writing a book was challenging. It took me a long time to learn how to do it. It took me seven years to get a sense of how to wean myself off the process and trickery of songwriting. You realize that giant metaphors work in songs because you have so few words. Standing alone on a page, they threaten to be overblown in a hurry.
Rodney Crowell
Work
Alone
Time
Myself
Me
You
Book
Writing
Words
Long
Long Time
Few
Sense
Took
Seven
Giant
Trickery
Hurry
Threaten
Songs
Songwriting
Learn
Because
How
Metaphors
Years
Off
Get
Process
Realize
Page
Certainly
Standing
Standing Alone
Challenging
I will say this: I've always sort of had maybe an inflated sense of my ability to sequence songs in a narrative flow.
Rodney Crowell
Will
Sense
Say
Ability
Had
Songs
Sort
Narrative
Always
Inflated
Maybe
Sequence
Flow
As a kid, I grew up on a farm in Florida, and I did what most little kids do. I played a little baseball, did a few other things like that, but I always had the sense of being an outsider, and it wasn't until I saw pictures in the magazines that a couple other guys skate, I thought, 'Wow, that's for me,' you know?
Rodney Mullen
Me
You
Thought
Few
Sense
Farm
Other
Saw
Kid
Kids
Wow
Magazines
Guys
Had
Outsider
Pictures
Like
Know
Most
Until
Couple
Always
Up
Did
Being
Grew
Skate
Little
Little Kids
Baseball
Things
Florida
Played
I take a role because it makes sense to me, rationally.
Rodrigo Santoro
Me
Sense
Rationally
Take
Because
Makes
Role
Tony and I had a good on and off screen relationship, we are two very different people, but we did share a sense of humor, we now live in different parts of the world but when we find ourselves in the same place it is more or less as if there had been no years in between.
Roger Moore
Good
Relationship
Sense Of Humor
People
World
Humor
Sense
Live
On And Off
Ourselves
Find
More
More Or Less
Had
Share
Between
Parts
Been
Years
Off
Very
Did
Same
Screen
Different
In-Between
Place
Different Parts
Different People
Less
Now
Two
Tony
Well, I don't know if I can comment on Kant or Hegel because I'm no real philosopher in the sense of knowing what these people have said in any detail so let me not comment on that too much.
Roger Penrose
Me
People
Too Much
Sense
Too
Philosopher
Detail
Know
Knowing
Well
Because
Said
Real
Comment
Any
Hegel
Much
Kant
But communication is two-sided - vital and profound communication makes demands also on those who are to receive it... demands in the sense of concentration, of genuine effort to receive what is being communicated.
Roger Sessions
Communication
Sense
Those
Vital
Demands
Concentration
Also
Makes
Genuine
Effort
Being
Who
Receive
Profound
I oppose the spending of trillions in Iraq and Afghanistan, I strongly oppose Islamic extremism but don't believe that sending troops to die in two unwinnable wars makes sense.
Roger Stone
Oppose
Sense
Believe
Spending
Extremism
Strongly
Troops
Islamic
Makes
Iraq
Die
Sending
Afghanistan
Wars
Two
In a sense, fantasy is a freer play of the imagination. You can achieve exactly the situation you want with less groundwork, less of a need to fill in all of the background. For science fiction, I would use a lot of sources to set up, for instance, what a being from another planet would be like.
Roger Zelazny
You
Science
Achieve
Situation
Sense
Imagination
Background
Would
Would-Be
Exactly
Instance
Freer
Like
Another
Science Fiction
Sources
Lot
Up
Being
Want
Fiction
Fantasy
Planet
Use
Less
Groundwork
Fill
Play
Need
Set
I really do prioritise humour in people. It's a sign of intelligence. One of the most important things I heard that moulded me was Derek and Clive. That sense of release when I heard them for the first time, crying and laughing, was akin to seeing Sonic Youth for the first time.
Roisin Murphy
Time
Me
Youth
People
Intelligence
First
Important
Important Things
Sense
Humour
Release
Sign
Laughing
Seeing
Sonic
Sonic Youth
Most
Crying
First Time
Heard
The Most Important
Them
Really
Things
I began to feel that, in a sense, we were all prisoners of our own history.
Roland Joffe
History
Own
Sense
Our
Feel
Prisoners
Were
Began
Our particular problem in America at this point in history is the widespread loss of the sense of individual significance, a loss which is sensed inwardly as impotence.
Rollo May
History
Problem
Sense
Our
Significance
Point
Individual
Particular
Particular Problem
Inwardly
Loss
Impotence
America
Sensed
Which
Widespread
Foreign policy can mean several things, not only foreign policy in the narrow sense. It can cover foreign policy, relations with the developing world, and enlargement as well.
Romano Prodi
World
Sense
Relations
Several
Only
Developing
Developing World
Well
Policy
Narrow
Foreign
Cover
Foreign Policy
Mean
Things
Enlargement
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