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I spent a lot of times sitting in big rooms full of a lot of men and executives thinking, 'What would Oprah say right now?' and trying to channel that as hard as I could. And mostly that was just about having the confidence. If this woman did it, it can be done. And there's no reason for anybody to stop you.
Shonda Rhimes
You
Confidence
Woman
Men
Big
Thinking
Channel
Say
Spent
Would
About
Having
No Reason
Could
Mostly
Executives
Lot
Oprah
Times
Trying
Did
Sitting
Done
Just
Stop
Anybody
Rooms
Full
Hard
Reason
Now
Right
The idea that cancer genes are sitting inside each and every one of our chromosomes, just waiting to be corrupted or inactivated and thereby unleashing cancer, is, of course, one of the seminal ideas of oncology.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Waiting
Cancer
Every
Our
Corrupted
Inside
Idea
Genes
Ideas
Course
Sitting
Just
Thereby
Each
The idea is to be different with every film, and I'm glad my mother and my brother, who were sitting besides me during the screening of 'Ek Villain,' forget it was me on screen after the first 15 minutes.
Sidharth Malhotra
Me
Mother
First
Every
On-Screen
Besides
Be Different
Brother
Minutes
Glad
Idea
Were
Forget
Sitting
Screen
Different
Screening
After
Who
Villain
Film
I think working for the audience, for me, is the most fun. It's really a chance for something to work towards. It's where everything kind of comes together, and you have to make it work. You have all these people who are sitting there, wanting to have a good time and wanting to laugh. You really have no choice but to pull it out.
Simon Helberg
Work
Time
Good
Me
You
Together
People
Good Time
Think
Everything
Laugh
Out
Kind
No Choice
Something
Towards
Most
Make
Audience
Sitting
Where
Wanting
Really
Choice
Working
Who
Fun
Chance
Pull
Life was so much simpler in pre-video days when everyone refused invitations because the 'Forsyte Saga' was on. Now we all just have a long list of unwatched shows, all of which, it seems, our friends are raving about. I feel as outdated as if I wore a Fair Isle sweater, ate Pot Noodle and had a two-bar electric fire in the sitting room.
Simon Hoggart
Life
Long
Fire
Everyone
Our
Ate
Outdated
About
Pot
Seems
Long List
Simpler
Had
Raving
Feel
Invitations
Days
Fair
Because
Saga
Isle
Noodle
Friends
Sitting
List
Just
Refused
Which
Wore
Room
Sweater
Much
Electric
Shows
Now
One of the pleasures of staying with friends is that you get to browse their shelves. I always arrive with a book, but I almost never read it. It would be like sitting at their dinner table and opening a packet of sandwiches.
Simon Hoggart
You
Book
Dinner
Pleasures
Would
Would-Be
Dinner Table
Table
Staying
Browse
Never
Almost
Opening
Like
Read
Always
Shelves
Arrive
Friends
Get
Sitting
Packet
Sandwiches
When you're actually inside the experience of writing something, in some ways, you're just writing. Ultimately, you fall in love with the characters, and you get excited about the story, and you're sitting there in your sweatpants or pajamas, and you do get a little lost in it.
Simon Kinberg
Love
You
Experience
Writing
Fall
Lost
Ways
Characters
Inside
Some
About
Something
Excited
Ultimately
Get
Sitting
Just
Story
Little
Your
Pajamas
Actually
I don't like sitting on the bench because I get more nervous there than when I am playing!
Simon Mignolet
Nervous
Bench
More
Like
Because
Am
Than
Get
Sitting
Playing
I remember when I was little, my mom asked me, 'Would you like to play the violin or the piano?' I looked at that giant monster and said to myself - I am not going to lock myself on that bench the whole day. This is small and lightweight. I can play from standing, sitting or walking.
Sirena Huang
Myself
Day
Mom
Me
You
Remember
Bench
Monster
Lock
Giant
Would
Small
Piano
Remember When
Lightweight
Like
Looked
Said
Am
Walking
Sitting
Going
Little
Asked
Standing
Whole
Play
Violin
I've realised that there's art in everything we do in London. Suddenly, a photo of two boys sitting on a wall in tracksuits with a dog can go online and be considered a sick photo. That's what we've done to London.
Skepta
Art
Dog
Sick
Everything
Considered
Photo
London
Online
Boy
Go
Wall
Sitting
Done
Realised
Suddenly
Two
I definitely rediscovered reading for pleasure by devoting such a large swath of my time to sitting on airplanes. I am now painfully adept at removing my shoes so as to have the least amount of foot surface area touching an airport floor.
Sloane Crosley
Time
Reading
Shoes
Adept
Pleasure
Airplane
Definitely
Airport
Touching
My Time
Area
Foot
Removing
Rediscovered
Surface
Am
Least
Sitting
Painfully
Large
Now
Floor
Amount
When I'm sitting at home in the off season and I don't have anything to do, I watch tennis on my computer. It's kind of boring. It's something to do.
Sloane Stephens
Home
Kind
Boring
Something
Computer
Tennis
Off
Off-Season
Sitting
Anything
Season
Watch
Stand, you've been sitting much too long, there's a permanent crease in your right or wrong.
Sly Stone
You
Long
Too
Wrong
Permanent
Been
Sitting
Much
Stand
Your
Right
We all have our notions of sport. If I'd wanted to make my living climbing mountains, I wouldn't have gone into publishing. Most of the time, you're sitting in a dark room reading a manuscript.
Sonny Mehta
Time
You
Dark
Reading
Mountains
Gone
Living
Our
Most
Sport
Make
Climbing
Sitting
Wanted
Room
Notions
Manuscript
Publishing
Playing on the field is different from providing inputs sitting in the dugout.
Sourav Ganguly
Field
Input
Dugout
Providing
Sitting
Different
Playing
My idea of managing is giving the ball to Tom Seaver and sitting down and watching him work.
Sparky Anderson
Work
Giving
Down
Idea
Him
Ball
Sitting
Managing
Tom
Watching
I read Freud's Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis in basically one sitting. I decided to enroll in medical school. It was almost like a conversion experience.
Stanislav Grof
Experience
School
Enroll
Introductory
Almost
Like
Read
Freud
Lectures
Sitting
Psychoanalysis
Decided
Conversion
Medical
Medical School
Basically
Sugar is like a drug. If I have one bite, I need to eat it all. I can eat an entire panettone in one sitting.
Stefano Gabbana
Sugar
Bite
Eat
Entire
Like
Sitting
Need
My very favorite wrestler of all time was Andre the Giant. He was sort of like my best friend, believe it or not, and I have a picture in 'People' magazine of me sitting on his lap when I was 8 years old after 'WrestleMania I.'
Stephanie McMahon
Time
Best
Me
People
Old
Picture
Believe
Giant
Favorite
Andre
Best Friend
Magazine
All-Time
WrestleMania
Wrestler
He
Like
Sort
His
Years
Friend
Very
Sitting
After
Lap
You have so much fun playing games. We all love basketball, so we never want the season to end, 'cause then it's five months of sitting around and watching the playoffs.
Stephen Curry
Love
You
Cause
Months
Never
Around
End
Five
Sitting
So Much Fun
Want
Then
Much
Games
Fun
Season
Watching
Playing
Playing Games
Playoffs
Basketball
I am pretty chill before games. Have a go-to routine that keeps me busy until we are ready to take the court so I'm not just sitting around anxious for the game.
Stephen Curry
Me
Game
Chill
Before
Busy
Pretty
Take
Until
Court
Around
Ready
Am
Sitting
Anxious
Just
Games
Keeps
Routine
I remember the early 1980s, when I first got one of these fabulous film critic jobs. The downside was sitting through 'Splatteria III: The Dismembering of the Clampett Clan' or 'The Oklahoma Meatgrinder Massacre' or some such. The headaches unleashed by watching attractive kids die week after week after week cannot be imagined.
Stephen Hunter
Remember
First
Unleashed
Oklahoma
Kids
Clan
Critic
Jobs
Fabulous
Some
Week
Through
Headaches
Massacre
Attractive
Got
Die
Sitting
After
Cannot
Downside
Film
Early
Watching
Imagined
If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a moody folk singer, sitting on stools and being very depressing.
Stephen Mangan
Moody
Folk
Folk Singer
Singer
Very
Sitting
Being
Depressing
Actor
A panther is quick and smart and always alert to everything. He's sitting on top of a mountain, with the sun and the clouds. That's where I want to see myself.
Stephon Marbury
Myself
Clouds
Smart
Panther
Everything
Top
Sun
See
He
Always
Quick
Mountain
Sitting
Where
Want
Alert
If you are a great dramatic actor then you often don't know if people are enjoying your stuff at all because they are sitting there in silence. But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't.
Steve Coogan
Funny
Great
Silence
You
People
Simple
Comedy
Funny People
Dramatic
Laugh
Stuff
Know
Because
Sitting
Often
Then
Your
Premise
Actor
Enjoying
If you are a great dramatic actor then you often don't know if people are enjoying your stuff at all because they are sitting there in silence.
Steve Coogan
Great
Silence
You
People
Dramatic
Stuff
Know
Because
Sitting
Often
Then
Your
Actor
Enjoying
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