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Most of the things I've had a producorial involvement on began as things I was going to direct, or I set out to direct myself and realized either I don't have the fire in my belly to do it, or I don't feel like I've licked the story enough.
Jonathan Mostow
Myself
Fire
Enough
Out
Direct
Had
Feel
Like
Most
Involvement
Began
Going
Story
Either
Realized
Things
Belly
Set
I've always loved shows that combine both approaches - that have a mythology and a set of characters, whose stories develop and change, and where the relationships evolve and fracture.
Jonathan Nolan
Change
Approaches
Relationships
Characters
Evolve
Both
Develop
Mythology
Combine
Always
Where
Stories
Loved
Shows
Whose
Set
With films, you get to develop a set of characters, and then, at the end of the film, you have to throw them away.
Jonathan Nolan
You
Films
Characters
Throw
Develop
End
Get
Them
Then
Film
Away
Set
Food prices are often kept artificially high. The result is that the Millennium Development Goals set out by the United Nations at the start of the new millennium are not being reached. Fine words have not yet been turned into deeds.
Jonathan Sacks
Food
Words
Result
Goals
United Nations
Out
High
Fine
Prices
Development
New
Reached
Been
Artificially
Often
Nations
Being
Turned
Deeds
United
Millennium
Start
Kept
Set
The market economy is deeply congruent with the values set out in the Hebrew Bible. Material prosperity is a divine blessing. Poverty crushes the spirit as well as the body, and its alleviation is a sacred task. Work is a noble calling.
Jonathan Sacks
Work
Bible
Blessing
Prosperity
Values
Poverty
Market
Market Economy
Out
Spirit
Sacred
Divine
Noble
Crushes
Economy
Well
Calling
Material
Task
Hebrew
Body
Deeply
Set
In service industries, we can be so people-pleaser-y that you don't know how to set your own boundaries.
Jonathan Van Ness
Service
You
Own
Boundaries
Know
Industries
How
Your
Set
Blotting pads are great in case you get sweaty or oily. But don't rub. It's a slow, methodical blot: set the pad on your skin and let it absorb, then move it to the next location.
Jonathan Van Ness
Great
You
Slow
Skin
Location
Case
Absorb
Methodical
Blot
Get
Blotting
Move
Pad
Then
Sweaty
Pads
Next
Your
Rub
Set
I never set out to intentionally hurt any player and never enticed any teammate to intentionally hurt another player. I also never put any money into a bounty pool or helped to create a bounty pool intended to pay out money for injuring other players.
Jonathan Vilma
Hurt
Money
Pool
Pay
Other
Out
Never
Put
Bounty
Also
Another
Intended
Any
Intentionally
Create
Helped
Teammate
Injuring
Player
Players
Set
Whether we like it or not, we are high-profile athletes. We're role models. Kids come up to me all the time to talk and it makes me remember when I was a kid and I got to meet Jerry Rice and how much that meant to me. And how we've got to set a good example.
Jonathan Vilma
Time
Good
Me
Remember
Example
Meet
Kid
Kids
Athletes
High-Profile
Remember When
Come
Like
Talk
Makes
Got
How
How Much
Up
Role
Role Models
Models
Whether
Rice
Much
Meant
Good Example
Jerry
Set
I come from pioneer stock, developers of the West, people who went out into the wilderness and set up home with nothing but a pair of oxen.
Joni Mitchell
Home
People
Nothing
Wilderness
Out
Developers
Come
West
Up
Stock
Pioneer
Oxen
Who
Pair
Set
As a writer, being on the set of 'Gravity' was such a surreal experience. It was nice to see them using the technology to translate what we had on the page.
Jonás Cuarón
Technology
Experience
Nice
See
Writer
Had
Surreal
Being
Them
Translate
Page
Using
Gravity
Set
When I first set up my big band, I only had Gilson Lavis, the drummer from Squeeze, with me. He was the core element. Whenever a group hits the big time, they always get a new drummer because they really need that. You can make do with rubbish elsewhere.
Jools Holland
Time
Me
You
First
Big
Band
Group
Rubbish
Elsewhere
Only
Had
He
New
Drummer
Make
Big Band
Because
Always
Up
Get
Squeeze
Hits
Whenever
Big Time
Really
Element
Need
Set
Core
As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight.
Jordan Peterson
Nature
Laziness
Think
Our
Those
About
Betrayal
Atrocity
Inertia
Am
Human
Transcend
Human Beings
Straight
Capacity
Pessimistic
Beings
Things
Set
It isn't generally the case that liberals dominate entire hierarchies. That isn't generally how it works, because the hierarchies are usually set up so that conservatives fill up the hierarchies; it's in the nature of hierarchy.
Jordan Peterson
Nature
Conservatives
Liberals
Hierarchies
Hierarchy
Entire
Case
Generally
Because
How
Up
Dominate
Works
Fill
Set
As long as you are set and in the right position, you give yourself the best opportunity. It's all about the crucial timing of a save, but it's also being in the right position at the right time.
Jordan Pickford
Time
Best
You
Yourself
Opportunity
Long
Timing
Right Time
About
Give
Crucial
Also
Being
Right
Set
Position
Save
The future of TV is not on TV. It's on the smaller screens we are all using in front of the television set.
Jorge Ramos
Future
Television
Television Set
TV
Smaller
Front
Screens
Using
Set
The G7 doesn't have a permanent secretariat. The OECD can help the G8 and set the agenda for them. The secretary general of the OECD should be going to them proactively and discussing issues and priorities.
Jose Angel Gurria
Secretary
General
Permanent
Priorities
Issues
Discussing
Going
Them
Agenda
Should
Help
Set
In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.
Jose Bergamin
You
Meal
Carte
Only
French
French Literature
La
Literature
Spanish
Choose
Set
Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows, and necessity is the resultant of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces.
Jose Rizal
World
Physical
Divinity
Powerful
Most
Most Powerful
Forces
Knows
Operation
Ethical
Necessity
Set
Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
Joseph Addison
Music
Nothing
Well
Nonsense
Being
Capable
Set
Every year, I travel extensively in the autumn and the spring. I set most of the winter and summer aside for my family and my own tribal relatives. But during that traveling time, I often find myself visiting other native communities around the continent - perhaps a dozen or more each year.
Joseph Bruchac
Time
Myself
Family
Travel
Winter
Relatives
Tribal
Year
Spring
Own
Autumn
Every
Other
Summer
Visiting
Find
My Own
More
Perhaps
Most
Around
Continent
Often
Native
Aside
Communities
Each
Traveling
Each Year
Dozen
Set
I learned early in my career that if you see something that is not to standard or not within the law, and you ignore it, you've set a new standard, and it's lower.
Joseph Dunford
You
Law
See
Something
New
Learned
Within
Lower
Ignore
Standard
Early
Career
Set
When I'm on set, I do whatever I can to find my focus.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Focus
Whatever
Find
Set
Leadership experts and the public alike extol the virtues of transformational leaders - those who set out bold objectives and take risks to change the world. We tend to downplay 'transactional' leaders, whose goals are more modest, as mere managers.
Joseph Nye
Leadership
Change
Risks
World
Goals
Change The World
Virtues
Alike
Those
Out
Objectives
More
Tend
Take
Leaders
Mere
Managers
Experts
Public
Modest
Who
Bold
Downplay
Whose
Set
To someone like me, who has watched trade negotiations closely for more than a quarter-century, it is clear that U.S. trade negotiators got most of what they wanted. The problem was with what they wanted. Their agenda was set, behind closed doors, by corporations.
Joseph Stiglitz
Me
Problem
Closed
Doors
Corporations
Negotiations
Someone
More
Clear
Like
Most
Trade
Got
Than
Closed Doors
Closely
Behind
Wanted
Agenda
Who
Watched
Set
Seeing my dad wake up super early when the sun wasn't even out and then coming home when the sun was set, he worked his tail off to provide for our family and did a great job. He's the most selfless man I know, and I think if I'm half the man he is, I'll be all right in this world.
Josh Allen
Home
Great
Family
Man
World
Wake Up
Job
Half
Think
Our
Sun
Out
Great Job
Super
Seeing
Tail
He
Know
Most
Coming
Coming Home
His
Provide
Off
Wake
Selfless
Up
Did
Then
Worked
Even
Dad
Right
Early
Set
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