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It's never one solitary event that has changed my life. It's a bunch of little pieces that built and built up to where I am now.
Tinashe
Life
My Life
Changed
Solitary
Never
Pieces
Built
Am
Up
Bunch
Where
Little
Event
Now
To me there is no more depressing sight than a five-year-old staring at a screen, unsmiling, mouse in hand. Besides whatever dreadful things this prolonged exposure to screens is doing to their brains, computer games tend to be solitary affairs, and produce little laughter.
Tom Hodgkinson
Me
Laughter
Whatever
Sight
Prolonged
Solitary
Dreadful
Besides
More
Tend
Computer
Doing
Affairs
Hand
Brains
Five-Year-Old
Than
Mouse
Screen
Screens
Little
Depressing
Produce
Games
Exposure
Staring
Things
Writing is a way of drifting within my own mind: almost a solitary process, so to speak.
Twinkle Khanna
Writing
Speak
Mind
Own
Way
Solitary
My Own
Drifting
Almost
Within
Process
'The Creative Habit' is basically about how you work alone, how you survive as a solitary artist. 'The Collaborative Habit' is obviously about surviving with other people.
Twyla Tharp
Work
Alone
You
Creative
People
Other
Collaborative
Solitary
About
Habit
Obviously
How
Survive
Surviving
Artist
Basically
Those who embrace belief in Christ Jesus are bound together in Him, in a real yet incomplete way, in his Body, the Church. Faith is never a solitary activity, nor can it be simply private. Faith in Christ always draws us into a community and has a public dimension.
Vincent Nichols
Faith
Together
Christ
Church
Community
Incomplete
Way
Those
Dimension
Solitary
Draws
Embrace
Never
Simply
Bound
Him
Always
Real
Private
His
Nor
Public
Us
Body
Who
Belief
Activity
Jesus
The writing life is essentially one of solitary confinement - if you can't deal with this, you needn't apply.
Will Self
Life
You
Writing
Solitary
Solitary Confinement
Deal
Essentially
Confinement
Apply
I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.
Zooey Deschanel
Work
Music
Collaboration
Television
Solitary
Like
Sort
Doing
Movies
Really
Medicine has an immediate impact, the ability to do good. Writing is such a solitary activity.
Uzodinma Iweala
Good
Writing
Medicine
Immediate
Solitary
Ability
Impact
Good Writing
Activity
I like weeding, but I tend to think of it as a solitary activity.
Roy Blount, Jr.
Think
Solitary
Tend
Like
Activity
Shortly after arriving at a makeshift military jail at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, in May 2010, I was placed into the black hole of solitary confinement for the first time.
Chelsea Manning
Time
Black
First
Military
Solitary
Solitary Confinement
Black Hole
First Time
Arriving
Camp
Kuwait
May
Jail
Confinement
After
Hole
Placed
They put me in solitary confinement, and although I went on to do 8,755 days of solitary in total, the first two were the hardest. I almost went mad, beating my head against the wall.
Nick Yarris
Me
First
Solitary
Mad
Solitary Confinement
Total
Beating
Put
Head
Almost
Days
Although
Were
Wall
Confinement
Against
Hardest
Two
My two bits here are that writing is a solitary job but there are times when one needs to discuss the work, and see what’s working and what’s not.
Sriram Raghavan
Work
Needs
Writing
Job
Bits
Solitary
See
Times
Discuss
Working
Here
Two
I will say that my days are spent solitary and somewhat lost in thought, and every single time I inadvertently wear my shirt inside out in public, I bump into my sister-in-law at the grocery store.
Douglas Coupland
Time
Will
Thought
Single
Lost
Every
Every Single Time
Say
Spent
Solitary
Out
Inside
Wear
Inside-Out
Somewhat
Days
Single Time
Bump
Shirt
Store
Public
Inadvertently
Grocery
Grocery Store
You start to forget about the world outside - it's not relevant or relatable anymore. The darkest part of solitary confinement is that you start to forget about cars and jobs and families and weather and politicians - and all the things that make up a society.
Chelsea Manning
You
World
Car
Darkest
Weather
Politicians
Society
Solitary
Relevant
Solitary Confinement
Jobs
About
Outside
Part
Make
Make Up
Up
Families
Forget
Confinement
Anymore
Things
Start
It's a cliche, but true, that writing is intensely solitary and at times really lonely. I sit in one room and talk to squirrels and blue jays all day.
Douglas Coupland
Day
Writing
Lonely
Sit
All Day
Solitary
True
Talk
Cliche
Times
Squirrels
Intensely
Blue
Room
Really
Writing is such a solitary existence, and I can only do it late at night.
Paul O'Grady
Writing
Late
I Can
Solitary
Only
Existence
Night
Normally, with stand-up, it's quite solitary, you write the material on your own, you perform it on your own, it's all very much on you. Your own thoughts. You have to sort of modulate your own performance.
Bill Bailey
Thoughts
You
Own
Solitary
Write
Perform
Performance
Sort
Material
Very
Normally
Quite
Much
Your
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