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What I love about sketch is that the writing of it is idea-based. It's not story-based. It's like, 'This is a behavior, and we're going to write, in a small sample, the funniest way to heighten this behavior.' Sitcoms or movies are about story.
Adam Pally
Love
Writing
Behavior
Way
About
Small
Write
Like
Sitcoms
Going
Sample
Story
Movies
Sketch
Funniest
I was born in Chicago, then I spent most of my youth in Joliet, Illinois which is about thirty minutes south, and I went to a military academy for high school in Wisconsin. Then I went to college, on a basketball scholarship to a small school in Iowa, so I'm like Mr. Midwest.
Adam Rapp
Youth
School
College
Military
Thirty
Spent
High
Born
Minutes
High School
About
Small
Scholarship
Wisconsin
Like
Most
Academy
Iowa
South
Chicago
Which
Midwest
Then
Illinois
Basketball
When you're making under-million-dollar films, it becomes so much about actors' availability. When you're using big actors for small films, you're in second or third position to the big monoliths.
Adam Rapp
You
Big
Films
About
Small
Becomes
Making
Availability
Much
Using
Actor
Second
Third
Position
I'm not comfortable being around too many people. I don't like being out in public too much. I don't like going to bars. I don't like doing celebrity stuff. So most of the characters I play are people who don't always feel comfortable beyond their small circle of friends.
Adam Sandler
People
Too Many People
Too Much
Circle
Too
Out
Characters
Small
Feel
Stuff
Like
Beyond
Most
Comfortable
Around
Always
Doing
Friends
Celebrity
Going
Being
Famous
Public
Much
Who
Many
Bars
Play
The skeptical community is absolutely near and dear to the 'Mythbusters' heart and there's no small reason that they've embraced us. That's our people. That's the way we like to think.
Adam Savage
Heart
People
Community
Think
Our
Way
Our People
Embraced
Small
Absolutely
Like
Dear
Skeptical
Us
Reason
Near
Saxon, if you are unfamiliar, is a British heavy-metal band that has been around since the mid-'70s and was in no small part the inspiration for Spinal Tap.
Adam Schlesinger
You
Band
Saxon
Has-Been
Spinal
Spinal Tap
Small
Inspiration
Small Part
Part
Since
Around
Been
Tap
Unfamiliar
British
A lot of people ask me, 'Are you going to do a sequel to 'The Guest' or 'You're Next?' - those movies weren't financially viable, so even though there are a lot of fans of it, it'd be a pretty small market we'd be appealing to. It's got to be a big hit for you to really justify that.
Adam Wingard
Me
You
People
Fans
Big
Market
Guest
Those
Though
Financially
Pretty
Small
Got
Were
Lot
Big Hit
Hit
Viable
Going
Movies
Justify
Ask
Really
Next
Sequel
Appealing
Even
I feel like I grew up in the investment business. My dad was at T. Rowe Price his whole career. We lived in Baltimore and had a small social circle, so most of my dad's friends also worked for T. Rowe.
Adena Friedman
Business
Circle
Small
Price
Had
Investment
Feel
Like
Most
Also
His
Baltimore
Up
Friends
Grew
Social
Worked
Whole
Dad
Lived
Career
I want to be able to touch people's heart through my music. I want to bring a smile on every face. In my own humble, small way, I want to touch lives.
Adnan Sami
Smile
Music
Heart
Humble
People
Face
Own
Every
Way
Able
Touch
My Own
Small
Through
Want
Lives
Bring
You never know when some small thing will lead to a big idea. Travel is very inspirational - but it's in the ordinary that I find my themes of love and work and family.
Adriana Trigiani
Inspirational
Work
Love
Family
You
Travel
Will
Big
Find
Some
Small
Lead
Never
Small Thing
Idea
Know
Big Idea
Very
Ordinary
Themes
Thing
Everything has to be clean and orderly when I sit down to write. I have candles going, and small objects that remind me of what I am working on, or bring me into the world of the character.
Adriana Trigiani
Character
Me
World
Sit
Down
Everything
Objects
Small
Clean
Write
Remind
Am
Going
Candles
Orderly
Working
Bring
In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper. The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
Agnes Smedley
Holding
Radical
Paper
Bad
Small
Various
Marxist
Leading
Print
Hall
Were
Subjects
Very
Little
Newspapers
Rack
Theories
Technical
Socialist
Treated
Syria may appear to be a small country, but it is just the type of entangled conflict that can lead to a world catastrophe. It does not take much imagination to see Syria as the Sarajevo of the 21st century, leading to world war.
Ahmed Zewail
War
Conflict
World
Country
Imagination
Type
Syria
Entangled
See
Small
Small Country
Take
Lead
Catastrophe
Leading
Does
May
Just
Century
Much
Appear
World War
When I first heard Ray Charles, he was a flop artist on a small label in California. He hadn't sold any records. And I bought his contract for $2,500.
Ahmet Ertegun
First
Sold
Charles
Small
Records
He
Bought
Ray
Ray Charles
California
His
Heard
Contract
Label
Any
Artist
Flop
I think it's a different experience for plus-size women in film and television to get clothes for events. It's just not as welcoming for us to get cool clothes that are, like, equal in glamour, in style, to what, I am going to say, 'small size' co-stars get to wear.
Aidy Bryant
Women
Experience
Events
Style
Clothes
Think
Say
Television
Wear
Small
Glamour
Like
Equal
Welcoming
Am
Get
Going
Just
Different
Size
Us
Cool
Film
Film And Television
I used to visit one production house every day, and I used to take up auditions even for small roles. Before my debut, I must have auditioned at almost every single production house.
Aishwarya Rajesh
Day
Every Day
Single
Before
Every
Visit
Must
Small
Take
Almost
House
Auditions
Up
Debut
Roles
Production
Used
Even
When we look at the investment decisions into the city of Compton, the small business community and global corporations and retailers and all of those types of services that decide to come into the community to serve it, they look at the perception, how does the brand work with the local community.
Aja Brown
Work
Business
Perception
Community
Local
Local Community
Types
Corporations
Those
City
Small
Small Business
Investment
Come
Global
Look
Does
How
Brand
Decide
Decisions
Business Community
Serve
Services
Whether you live in a big city or a small town, a call placed by a loved one, friend, or customer should go through.
Ajit Pai
You
Big
Live
One Friend
City
Small
Through
Small Town
Town
Call
Big City
Go
Friend
Loved
Loved One
Whether
Placed
Customer
Should
As a native of Parsons, Kansas, a small town near the Oklahoma border, I have a deep respect for tribal nations in Oklahoma. But this federal spending in Oklahoma is outrageous. And excessive subsidies have made the state a playground for Lifeline fraud.
Ajit Pai
Respect
Tribal
Made
State
Spending
Oklahoma
Fraud
Border
Small
Federal
Lifeline
Outrageous
Excessive
Federal Spending
Small Town
Town
Subsidies
Nations
Native
Kansas
Deep
Near
Playground
I own almost 100 hotels in North America. Some of them are only in management, but some of them we have some small stakes in them.
Al-Waleed bin Talal
Management
Own
Some
Only
Small
Almost
Hotels
North
North America
America
Stakes
Them
As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse, the Internet can only work if it's a truly level playing field. Small businesses should have the same ability to reach customers as powerful corporations. A blogger should have the same ability to find an audience as a media conglomerate.
Al Franken
Work
Innovation
Political
Internet
Field
Our
Corporations
Find
Ability
Only
Small
Small Businesses
Powerful
Economy
Reach
Audience
Discourse
Source
Truly
Same
Customers
Should
Conglomerate
Engine
Forum
Businesses
Media
Level
Level Playing Field
Playing
Playing Field
I was foreign and Jewish, with a funny name, and was very small and hated sport, a real problem at an English prep school. So the way to get round it was to become the school joker, which I did quite effectively - I was always fooling around to make the people who would otherwise dump me in the loo laugh.
Alain de Botton
Funny
Me
People
Problem
School
Become
Otherwise
Way
Laugh
Would
Hated
Small
Fooling
Joker
Name
Sport
Make
Around
Always
Foreign
Real
Dump
Effectively
Very
Get
Did
Real Problem
Quite
Which
English
Who
Prep
Round
Jewish
Sometimes with people I know, they're playing the hunky action guy and there's resistance to them coming out because it's so connected to straight masculinity. There's a plastic kind of movie star who has a very short shelf with very small kind of ambition. I see that but I still don't agree with it.
Alan Cumming
People
Sometimes
Ambition
Action
Out
Kind
See
Guy
Small
Masculinity
Know
Because
Shelf
Still
Coming
Very
Short
Movie
Movie Star
Straight
Them
Who
Connected
Plastic
Agree
Star
Resistance
Playing
I don't care how small the parts are, as long as they're good.
Alan Ladd
Good
Care
Long
Small
Parts
How
dont Care
Everybody cares about not only quality and functionality, but they also want the power of choice, whether it's a small vehicle or a large vehicle.
Alan Mulally
Quality
Power
Cares
Everybody
About
Only
Small
Vehicle
Also
Want
Whether
Choice
Large
Functionality
In my 40-plus years as a venture capitalist, I have come to appreciate the certainty a healthy economy provides for businesses both large and small.
Alan Patricof
Healthy
Small
Both
Come
Economy
Venture
Healthy Economy
Years
Provides
Capitalist
Certainty
Businesses
Large
Appreciate
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