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It's sort of one ongoing process where writing ends and directing starts.
Sean Durkin
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The early music I heard was Top of the Pops. But in bedrooms, around the house with my brother playing the Sex Pistols, Sham 69 and the Ham and all these groups then going into that sort of mod turnover scene and then going into the New Romantics scene the coming of age myself in the mid-eighties and into the noughties, it was changing.
Sean Dyche
Music
Myself
Age
Sex
Changing
Top
Sex Pistols
Brother
Scene
Sham
New
House
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Around
Ham
Bedrooms
Coming
Coming Of Age
Heard
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Going
Romantics
Then
Turnover
Pops
Groups
Early
Playing
I've loved physics from a young age, but I've also been interested in all sorts of big questions, from philosophy to evolution and neuroscience. And what those fields have in common is that they all aim to capture certain aspects of the same underlying universe.
Sean M. Carroll
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Physics
Big
Young
Universe
Aim
Philosophy
Those
Evolution
Neuroscience
Also
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Been
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Big Questions
Common
Young Age
Loved
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Certain
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Capture
There came a time when these two incompatible notions of who I was, well, something had to give. Either that 'something' is where you acquiesce to the world around you and you conform, or you sort of defiantly break whatever remaining bonds connect you to that world and create for yourself a different set of values.
Sean Parker
Time
You
Yourself
World
Values
Whatever
Give
Something
Remaining
Had
Well
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Around
Came
Where
Different
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Conform
Acquiesce
Create
Notions
Who
Connect
Incompatible
Two
Bonds
Set
I can sort of do what I want. Maybe I have to work harder to prove myself in some new relationship because they've heard some wacky stories about me. But at least I can get the meeting.
Sean Parker
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Myself
Me
Relationship
Meeting
Some
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New
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Because
Wacky
Least
Prove
Heard
Get
Maybe
Want
Stories
Harder
It would be incredibly presumptuous and self-serving of me to believe that Facebook was the end of history. The only way it could possibly be the end of history is if it becomes some sort of artificial super intelligence that takes over the world.
Sean Parker
Me
History
Facebook
Intelligence
World
Believe
Incredibly
Way
Possibly
Presumptuous
Would
Would-Be
Super
Some
Only
Could
Takes
Over
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Becomes
Self-Serving
End
Artificial
There's definitely some sort of dissent brewing between labels, publishing companies and artists. A lot of it has to do with older licensing schemes.
Sean Parker
Older
Dissent
Definitely
Licensing
Some
Schemes
Between
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Lot
Labels
Artists
Companies
Publishing
Perhaps I have managed some sort of longevity because I haven't won the lead roles. I don't have the pressure of being a world-famous bombshell that has detonated.
Selma Blair
Pressure
Some
Lead
Lead Roles
Longevity
Perhaps
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Because
Won
Roles
Being
Bombshell
You can get pictures into what people are sort of thinking about others. Just go onto Google and type 'Why are Indians' and then look for the autocomplete.
Sendhil Mullainathan
You
People
Google
Thinking
Others
Type
Indians
About
Onto
Pictures
Look
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Go
Get
Just
Then
Why
For me, maybe, in comparison with other cosmonauts who were inspired by the Sputnik launch or Yuri Gagarin launch, I think I'm cosmonaut of another generation. For me, the spaceflights were sort of a common thing.
Sergey Volkov
Me
Generation
Think
Other
Launch
Inspired
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Another
Were
Maybe
Common
Who
Comparison
Thing
There's a dangerous bottom-lining, and super-summarizing that happens in a lot of our press and our media, and sort of our politicians' talking points, that's dangerously simple. I don't know a better way to say it. And there's usually a lot more complicated facts going on than what is quoted and quotable.
Seth Gordon
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Complicated
Better
Simple
Politicians
Our
Way
Say
Press
Dangerously
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Points
Better Way
Know
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The way Disney characters move, they're very kind of slow and fluid and flowing; one pose kind of eases into the next. If you look at a show like 'The Simpsons' and subsequently a show like 'Family Guy' - the characters will jerk from pose to pose a lot, a bit more snappy. Which sort of goes along with the writing tone of the show.
Seth MacFarlane
Family
You
Writing
Fluid
Will
Slow
Way
Bit
Characters
Kind
Guy
More
Simpsons
Along
Like
Look
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Snappy
Lot
Very
Family Guy
Goes
Subsequently
Move
The Simpsons
Which
Next
Disney
Show
Jerk
Tone
Pose
Flowing
Most of the things at the zoo don't look like us. We're one design that works. Our chimp pals sort of look like us, so that's a different take on the same basic design. But fish don't look like us, and giraffes don't. They look a little like us, but not too much. And insects certainly don't look like us, and they work just fine.
Seth Shostak
Work
Too Much
Insects
Design
Too
Our
Fine
Giraffes
Take
Like
Look
Most
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Fish
Same
Just
Different
Little
Us
Much
Certainly
Works
Basic
Things
Pals
Zoo
It seems obvious that if a species has the brainpower for speech, along with the sort of appendages that can manipulate a pair of pliers, it will eventually blunder into science, technology, and radio.
Seth Shostak
Technology
Science
Will
Seems
Along
Obvious
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Blunder
Manipulate
Radio
Pair
Eventually
Species
Speech
In general, when moviemakers talk to scientists, they usually see them as a resource to solve particular technical problems or script problems for them. So, something like: what sort of weaponry would aliens be able to wield?
Seth Shostak
Problems
Alien
Resource
Would
Solve
Weaponry
See
Able
Something
General
Particular
Like
Talk
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Scientists
Script
Them
Technical
Wield
I have this sort of heuristic view that journalism, we possibly offer hope because the world is clearly run by total nincompoops more than ever... Not that journalism is always wonderful - it's not - but at least we offer some way out, some integrity.
Seymour Hersh
Hope
Integrity
Wonderful
World
Way
Out
Run
Possibly
Total
Some
More
Journalism
Clearly
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Because
Always
Least
Offer
Than
View
Ever
George Clooney sort of lost his 'George Clooney-ness' the first day I met him. He's not George Clooney in my eyes - he's George from Kentucky with an awesome, awesome heart.
Shailene Woodley
Day
Heart
Eyes
First
Met
Lost
Awesome
He
Him
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George
His
George Clooney
Clooney
Kentucky
Probably my favorite piece of music, as an album taken as a whole, is Bruce Springsteen's 'Greetings from Asbury Park.' I just think it's incredibly pure. It's a sound that sort of broke new ground, and I think it paved the way for a hundred people that sound very similar.
Shane Black
Music
People
Pure
Think
Incredibly
Hundred
Way
Broke
Favorite
Similar
Bruce
Park
Taken
New
Piece
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Sound
Springsteen
Very
Just
Paved
Ground
Whole
Album
I would say 'The Chill' by Ross Macdonald is sort of a prototypical example of how the private detective genre elevates itself to the level of literature.
Shane Black
Chill
Example
Macdonald
Say
Would
Detective
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How
Private
Itself
Literature
Level
It's a risk, but I'm sort of ready to let go of thinking of movies as books that you can watch. The notion of, 'If I put the narrative blocks in the right order, this will solve all of my storytelling problems.' No, it won't, and you end up with little more than books on film.
Shane Carruth
You
Problems
Will
Thinking
Books
Solve
Risk
More
Put
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Narrative
Ready
Go
Blocks
End
Up
Than
Order
Little
Movies
Storytelling
Notion
Let Go
Film
Right
Watch
I don't read books on how to write screenplays just because I'm stubborn. So it's all sort of made up.
Shane Carruth
Made
Books
Stubborn
Write
Read
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Because
How
Up
Just
Just Because
Screenplays
One of the shocking things when I go back to Canada is they cut off the tall trees - it's sort of like everyone's the same. Everyone's going to be the same, we're all okay. Just the, sort of, cultural, 'We're all okay.'
Shane Smith
Trees
Back
Everyone
Okay
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Tall
Go
Cultural
Off
Shocking
Canada
Same
Going
Just
Cut
Things
I suppose my look, the way I play - you combine all that sort of stuff and that makes people interested in what I actually do. So then, when off-the-field stuff happens... I suppose it's one of those cocktail mixes.
Shane Warne
You
People
Cocktail
Way
Those
Stuff
Combine
Suppose
Look
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Makes
Happens
Interested
Then
Play
Actually
As I got into high school I sort of came into my own and gained some confidence and, luckily, wasn't really bullied by others.
Shannon Purser
Confidence
School
Own
Others
High
Some
High School
My Own
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Came
Bullied
Gained
Really
Luckily
The only thing I wanted to accomplish was to finally get recognized by the music industry. If you know the awards, answer me this question: Do you see an award for soul music? No. They have R&B, funk, hip-hop and all sorts of contemporary things.
Sharon Jones
Music
Me
You
Soul
Music Industry
Finally
Recognized
See
Only
Know
Contemporary
Industry
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Soul Music
Answer
Hip-Hop
Accomplish
Question
Get
The Only Thing
Wanted
Award
Awards
Thing
Things
Funk
We can have skills training in mindfulness so that we are using our attention to perceive something in the present moment. This perception is not so latent by fears or projections into the future, or old habits, and then I can actually stir loving-kindness or compassion in skills training too, which can be sort of provocative, I found.
Sharon Salzberg
Future
Training
Old
Compassion
Fears
Perception
Too
Mindfulness
Our
Latent
Perceive
Something
Habits
Attention
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Provocative
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Then
Skills
Moment
Using
Found
Actually
Present
Present Moment
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