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I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing.
Parker Posey
Trend
Longing
Songwriting
Like
Intelligent
Really
Serious
Honest
I think some sing-songwriter music can just be very serious - after an hour and a half of it, you are exhausted - so I try and give it light and shade.
Passenger
Music
You
Light
Try
Half
Exhausted
Just Be
Think
Some
Shade
Give
Hour
Hour And A Half
Very
Just
After
Serious
Security for agriculture merits serious concern by not only the agricultural community but our nation as a whole. The risk to the U.S. food supply and overall economy is real.
Pat Roberts
Food
Agriculture
Nation
Community
Our
Security
Risk
Only
Food Supply
Supply
Merits
Overall
Economy
Concern
Real
Whole
Serious
Agricultural
Being serious just makes me a little bit embarrassed.
Patricia Marx
Me
Bit
Embarrassed
Makes
Just
Being
Little
Little Bit
Serious
I was intentionally curbing the impulse to be funny and hiding the ability. I wrote any number of very serious attempts at poems, short stories, novels - horrible. At a certain point, I recognized that it was fun to write dialogue that had a degree of lightness and humor.
Patrick deWitt
Funny
Humor
Degree
Hiding
Recognized
Ability
Horrible
Poems
Point
Write
Had
Attempts
Lightness
Wrote
Dialogue
Very
Any
Impulse
Short
Intentionally
Stories
Short Stories
Certain
Certain Point
Fun
Serious
Novels
Number
My parents had three kids right after the Second World War, and we were all sort of sickly. Then I had a fourth sibling, with very serious asthma. The medical bills... So my parents always struggled.
Patti Smith
War
World
Three
Parents
Sickly
Asthma
Kids
Struggled
Had
Sort
Always
Were
Very
After
Then
Bills
Serious
Medical
Right
Second
Fourth
World War
Second World War
Sibling
If you play comedic scenes like they're really serious, then it's so much more funny than if you're going for a laugh.
Patton Oswalt
Funny
You
Laugh
More
Scenes
Like
Comedic
Than
Going
Then
Much
Really
Serious
Play
I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was about 30 that I got serious about writing prose. While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels; I liked them.
Paul Auster
Life
Myself
Writing
Poet
Reading
Out
Would
Detective
About
Poems
Only
Divert
Poetry
Through
Prose
Liked
Until
Got
Often
While
Them
Serious
Novels
Started
It takes application, a fine sense of value, and a powerful community-spirit for a people to have serious leisure, and this has not been the genius of the Americans.
Paul Goodman
People
Genius
Value
Sense
Fine
Takes
Powerful
Been
American
Leisure
Serious
Application
Donald Trump's whole candidacy from the time he started has been filled with myths by the media that he couldn't - he was not a serious candidate.
Paul Manafort
Time
Has-Been
He
Myths
Been
Trump
Donald
Candidacy
Candidate
Whole
Serious
Filled
Media
Started
Drew Barrymore's Guess shoot took place as she was making the transition to serious actress after having been more known as a child actress who had become overwhelmed by the Hollywood lifestyle.
Paul Marciano
Become
Took
Guess
Drew
Having
More
Lifestyle
Had
She
Known
Making
Been
Overwhelmed
Child
Shoot
After
Place
Transition
Hollywood
Who
Serious
Actress
I think it's absurd to believe that movies should look like paintings and say something like serious books say something.
Paul Morrissey
Believe
Think
Books
Say
Something
Absurd
Like
Look
Movies
Should
Paintings
Serious
Andy was a character, and the two of us did have some things in common. We appreciated funny things, didn't like serious things.
Paul Morrissey
Funny
Character
Funny Things
Andy
Some
Some Things
Like
Did
Common
Us
Serious
Things
Two
Appreciated
When our opponents on the Left have no serious ideas of their own, they resort to emotional appeals that play up Americans' fears about the future.
Paul Ryan
Future
Fears
Own
Resort
Our
About
Emotional
Ideas
Opponents
Left
Up
American
Appeals
Serious
Play
Before the math and the momentum overwhelm us all, we are going to solve this nation's economic problems. And I'm going to level with you: We don't have that much time. But if we are serious, and smart, and we lead, we can do this.
Paul Ryan
Time
You
Smart
Problems
Nation
Before
Solve
Economic
Lead
Economic Problems
Math
Overwhelm
Going
Us
Much
Momentum
Serious
Level
Japan, Germany, and India seem to me to have serious writers, readers, and book buyers, but the Netherlands has struck me as the most robust literary culture in the world.
Paul Theroux
Me
Culture
Book
World
India
Seem
Netherlands
Struck
Writers
Most
Readers
Robust
Germany
Literary
Japan
Serious
Buyers
We cannot get serious about helping the private sector create quality jobs without focusing first on the main drivers of our economy - the American middle class and those struggling to enter it.
Paul Tonko
Class
Quality
First
Our
Those
We Cannot
Sector
Enter
Focusing
Jobs
About
Struggling
Main
Drivers
Economy
Without
Private
Private Sector
Get
American
Middle
Middle Class
Cannot
Create
Helping
Serious
I was the first generation of filmmakers where videogames were a serious part of my life. I regard them as just as valid as books or plays in terms of an intellectual property.
Paul W. S. Anderson
Life
Property
Generation
My Life
First
Valid
Books
Part
First Generation
Terms
Were
Intellectual
Intellectual Property
Just
Where
Regard
Them
Videogames
Serious
Filmmakers
Plays
The President has a short time to let people know that he is serious about getting spending under control.
Paul Weyrich
Time
People
Control
President
Spending
About
He
Know
Getting
Short
Short Time
Serious
I believed that our own public would keep this in mind even in this serious crisis, and stand firm if only we at the front continued to stand firm too.
Paul von Hindenburg
Mind
Own
Too
Our
Crisis
Would
Only
Firm
Continue
Front
Public
Stand
Even
Serious
Keep
Believed
For the most part, any serious magic show is not using very much technology newer than theatrical lights.
Penn Jillette
Technology
Magic
Part
Lights
Most
Very
Than
Any
Theatrical
Much
Show
Using
Serious
I want to win. I want to play serious. I want to be effective.
Pep Guardiola
Win
Effective
Want
Serious
Play
I got very serious about micro-piglets and what it would be like to own them.
Perfume Genius
Own
Would
Would-Be
About
Like
Got
Very
Them
Serious
There was one time I flagged every 'Brokeback Mountain' review on Netflix that was negative. I was, like, 'not helpful,' and I spent, like, an hour doing it, and I wrote a really serious review about it. It's hard for me not to get really sensitive. I don't brush things off like that very easily.
Perfume Genius
Time
Me
Negative
Every
Spent
Easily
One Time
About
Netflix
Brush
Hour
Like
Wrote
Doing
Review
Off
Very
Mountain
Get
Sensitive
Really
Hard
Helpful
Serious
Things
The media circus got a bit twisted when I was in London. It became a bit of a joke, really. In Paris, they're so serious, I can take myself really seriously, too. I can get really morbid without people telling me to cheer up.
Pete Doherty
Myself
Me
People
Seriously
Joke
Too
Bit
Circus
Telling
London
Morbid
Paris
Take
Cheer
Became
Without
Got
Up
Get
Really
Serious
Media
Twisted
I try to sing many different kinds of songs. If I sing a batch of humorous songs, I'll throw in a deadly serious song. Or if I'm singing too many serious songs, I'll throw in a ridiculous song, to mix it up.
Pete Seeger
Song
Try
Singing
Different Kinds
Too
Batch
Humorous
Kinds
Throw
Songs
Sing
Deadly
Mix
Up
Different
Many
Serious
Ridiculous
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