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It was only against my mother's will that I attended the preparatory high school in the city. She wanted me to become a seamstress in the village. She knew that if I moved to the city, I would become corrupted. And I was. I started to read books.
Herta Muller
Me
School
Mother
Will
Become
Books
High
Would
City
Corrupted
High School
Only
Knew
Attended
She
Read
Moved
Wanted
Against
Preparatory
Village
Started
Justice prevails over transgression when she comes to the end of the race.
Hesiod
Justice
Prevails
Over
She
End
Transgression
Race
I love Natalie Portman. She worked when she was younger, and she's so talented and private. She doesn't do things that are too crazy, but she pushes the envelope enough.
Hilary Duff
Love
Crazy
Too
Enough
Envelope
Pushes
Talented
She
Natalie
Private
Younger
Worked
Things
One of the great things about my mother is she really valued people's character more than what they did.
Hillary Clinton
Great
Character
People
Great Things
Mother
Valued
About
More
She
Than
Did
Really
Things
If I had to name one thing that probably causes more conflict within the band, it's probably the fact that I'm the girl, and it takes much longer with hair and makeup and wardrobe. But they've gotten used to it. It's one of those things I think they realize that when they say she'll be ready in 10 minutes, it normally means 15 or 20.
Hillary Scott
Conflict
Girl
Hair
Band
Think
Say
Those
One Thing
Minutes
More
Fact
Had
Takes
Longer
Name
She
Within
Makeup
Ready
Gotten
Causes
Normally
Wardrobe
Realize
Much
Means
Used
They Say
Thing
Things
I don't think that there are many, many strong, black male role models who provide a certain kind of really American, Southern-based comfort that Madea grows out of. She's a signpost in our Obama world of traditional Christian values.
Hilton Als
World
Strong
Values
Black
Christian
Think
Our
Out
Kind
Obama
She
Comfort
Traditional
Male
Provide
Role
Role Models
American
Models
Really
Certain
Who
Many
Grows
I think someone like Khandi Alexander, who's now on 'Treme,' is one of the most extraordinary actresses I've seen in years. But she's dependent on someone brilliant like David Simon to realize that and to give her a forum. Tyler Perry's not interested in that kind of nuance because it doesn't sell.
Hilton Als
Brilliant
Seen
Think
Alexander
Extraordinary
Tyler
Kind
Someone
Give
Simon
David
Like
Most
She
Because
Years
Perry
Sell
Dependent
Not Interested
Interested
Realize
Forum
Now
Actress
Nuance
Her
I asked my mother, 'Why shouldn't I act?' She said, 'Nobody in the family has acted, so why should you?'
Hina Khan
Family
You
Mother
Nobody
She
Said
Asked
Should
Act
Acted
Why
My mother was really against it when I said I wanted to make films. She said that I should be a civil servant because that was safe, and it had security. But my mother was always very proud of my movies and would give videocassettes of them to all the neighbours.
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Mother
Films
Neighbours
Security
Would
Civil
Civil Servant
Give
Had
Safe
She
Make
Because
Said
Always
Proud
Very
Wanted
Against
Movies
Them
Really
Should
Servant
My mother used to work in a bank in Tokyo. It was a busy district, and after work, she used to go and watch films.
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Work
Mother
Busy
Films
District
She
Go
Bank
After
Used
Tokyo
Watch
I can't remember a time when my mom didn't work. She has forever been on the move: a go-getter. When my brother Adel and I had a paper route as kids, my mom would get up before us at the crack of dawn to drop off the Washington Post at different corners.
Hoda Kotb
Work
Time
Mom
Post
Remember
Drop
Before
Corners
Paper
Kids
Would
Brother
Dawn
Had
She
Been
Off
Up
Forever
Crack
Get
Move
Different
Us
Washington
Washington Post
Route
To this day, my mom's unsinkable spirit is an inspiration to me. For nearly thirty years, she's worked at the Library of Congress. Everyone knows Sameha simply as 'Sami.' Along with 500 miles of shelved books, her closest friendships are cataloged in that library. They are as much the value of work to my mom as is the work itself.
Hoda Kotb
Work
Day
Mom
Me
Library
Value
Congress
Thirty
Everyone
Books
Spirit
Inspiration
Simply
Along
She
Knows
Years
Itself
Friendships
Closest
Worked
Much
Miles
Her
Nearly
I love playing someone who just skates by and does anything she wants.
Holland Taylor
Love
Someone
She
Does
Just
Anything
Wants
Skates
Who
Playing
I've got a massive actor girl crush on Carey Mulligan, so I'd love to be buddies with her. She just oozes this joyful, natural innocence and always brings a nice emotional depth to her character.
Holliday Grainger
Love
Character
Natural
Girl
Nice
Innocence
Emotional
Buddies
Crush
Joyful
Massive
She
Always
Got
Just
Depth
Actor
Her
Brings
I really love being a weirdo who writes a lot of different things for a lot of different ages. I have been considering doing a guide on my website so that a reader who liked one of my books could find the other books that he or she might like, because I know some of the books are really different from the rest.
Holly Black
Website
Love
Rest
Other
Books
Considering
Guide
Find
Some
Could
Writes
He
He Or She
Weirdo
Like
Know
Liked
She
Reader
Because
Doing
Been
Lot
Being
Different
Different Ages
Might
Ages
Really
Who
Different Things
Things
I think that the audience feels a real connection with Zoe Kazan because she's so instantly lovable.
Holly Hunter
Think
Instantly
Feels
She
Because
Audience
Real
Lovable
Connection
Kazan
I moved to New York in 1980, and I met Beth Henley, who's a marvellous playwright and who I have a real personal and professional association with, in 1982. I met her in a stalled elevator - we were the only two people in there - and she's been one of my very dearest friends since.
Holly Hunter
People
Met
Playwright
Only
Marvellous
Since
New
She
Real
Dearest
Were
Been
Friends
Very
Personal
York
Moved
New York
Who
Professional
Elevator
Her
Two
Two People
Association
Growing up in Alaska, they don't really teach you to swim there. I learned to swim just a few summers ago with Olympic gold medalist Amanda Beard. She did great, and right after that I went to get scuba certified. I had fun with it. I didn't really get scared, but some people thought that was a risk.
Holly Madison
Great
You
Beard
People
Thought
Some People
Few
Summers
Scared
Some
Risk
Had
She
Learned
Amanda
Up
Get
Did
Just
Gold
After
Scuba
Really
Teach
Certified
Fun
Swim
Growing
Growing Up
Right
Alaska
Olympic
Olympic Gold
Both my husband and I wanted a boy. I wasn't sure what I'd do with a daughter. What if she asked for a Barbie? I would have been like, 'Honey, we don't support Barbie because she isn't an accurate depiction of a woman's body.'
Holly Marie Combs
Woman
Husband
Daughter
Honey
Would
Both
Support
Like
She
Sure
Because
Boy
Been
Accurate
What If
Wanted
Depiction
Barbie
Asked
Body
Felicity Huffman is just flawless; she's above and beyond TV and movies and this Earth.
Holly Marie Combs
Earth
TV
Above
Beyond
Felicity
She
Just
Movies
Flawless
I think Emily Blunt is definitely our finest young female English export. She has an uncanny grace.
Honeysuckle Weeks
Grace
Young
Think
Our
Definitely
Finest
Emily
She
Female
Blunt
English
Export
A true scientist doesn't perform prescribed experiments; she develops her own and thus generates wholly new knowledge.
Hope Jahren
Knowledge
Own
True
Perform
Thus
Develops
New
She
Scientist
New Knowledge
Experiments
Wholly
Prescribed
Her
Ask a science professor what she worries about. It won't take long. She'll look you in the eye and say one word: 'Money.'
Hope Jahren
You
Science
Money
Word
Long
Worries
Say
Eye
One Word
About
Take
Look
She
Ask
Professor
Asked at the hearing why she hadn't pressed the FBI more closely about what it knew, or didn't know, about domestic terrorist threats, Rice acted as though the question was an odd one: it wasn't her job. Well, in retrospect, it was and now certainly is.
Howard Fineman
Job
Pressed
Though
Threats
About
More
Knew
Know
Retrospect
She
Well
Terrorist
Odd
Hearing
Question
Domestic
Closely
Rice
Asked
Acted
Certainly
Now
Why
Her
I've always said if a woman is looking for a good husband, she should go for a Jewish man past 60. Jewish men are essentially brought up to love women. Then you rebel against that and become a bit of a bastard. Then at 60, you revert.
Howard Jacobson
Love
Good
You
Man
Woman
Women
Men
Husband
Looking
Become
Past
Bit
Brought
She
Said
Always
Go
Revert
Up
Essentially
Against
To Love
Then
Should
Rebel
Good Husband
Jewish
Our connection to the great myths of our natures is murky. A mother might see the Medea in herself without imagining she will ever do away with her children.
Howard Jacobson
Great
Mother
Will
Herself
Our
See
Myths
She
Without
Children
Might
Natures
Connection
Away
Ever
Her
Murky
Imagining
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