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I'm not the first Christian to have a fruity past. I hesitate to compare myself to St Augustine or St Paul, but there is a precedent for this sort of thing.
Richard Coles
Myself
First
Past
Christian
Hesitate
Sort
Augustine
Precedent
Paul
Compare
Thing
In 2013, I did a TEDx talk in Austin. Until then I had sort of a following online but this was completely different - it went viral.
Lizzie Velasquez
Viral
Following
Online
Had
Talk
Until
Sort
Austin
Did
Different
Then
I got into Nirvana, and it was my sort of awakening into the idea that music could be like rough and crazy and local. And so I started to realize that there were bands playing in my town, Anacortes.
Phil Elverum
Music
Crazy
Local
Nirvana
Could
Idea
Town
Like
Sort
Got
Were
Bands
Realize
Awakening
Rough
Started
Playing
When you're around a sport awhile and sort of get to know everybody, you start to appreciate people more instead of just seeing a number and a sponsor and a competitor.
Dale Earnhardt Jr.
You
People
Competitor
Everybody
Seeing
More
Instead
Sponsor
Know
Sport
Sort
Around
Get
Just
Awhile
Start
Number
Appreciate
It was always sort of my dream to make handbags and I wanted a handbag that was very sharp, very structured, very tailored... I wanted a bag you could put all of your things in it, you can open it, you could close it, you could hid all your tricks, but it's not all lumpy.
L'Wren Scott
You
Hid
Dream
Tricks
Structured
Tailored
Could
Open
Put
Bag
Sharp
Make
Sort
Always
Handbags
Very
Close
Wanted
Your
Things
My grandparents lived with us. And I remember watching 'Doctor Who' with my granddad on his new telly. These were the days before remote controls but my granddad, being quite a resourceful sort of chap, had fashioned his own remote control - which was a length of bamboo pole with a bit of cork that he'd glued on the end.
Bill Bailey
Doctor
Remember
Before
Own
Control
Cork
Resourceful
Chap
Bit
I Remember
Telly
Had
He
New
Pole
Days
Remote
Doctor Who
Sort
Glued
Were
His
Bamboo
End
Quite
Controls
Being
Which
Length
Us
Grandparents
Who
Lived
Watching
Like, your body has to get used to being in front of people. Like - and you have to be like - you have to be kind of a ham, you know? Like, the thing about writers is they're generally self - comedy writers - self-loathing, sort of play small. And as a, like, performer, you have to think like a comedy writer but act like a performer.
Neal Brennan
You
People
Be Kind
Comedy
Think
Kind
About
Small
Writer
Writers
Self
Generally
Performer
Like
Know
Sort
Self-Loathing
Ham
Get
Front
Being
Body
Act
Your
Used
Your Body
Play
Thing
Since I started acting, I've always been aware of the sort of 'beastly entity' that is America and Hollywood, and semi-consciously, I devised a kind of route in - I'd seen a lot of people try and fail.
Jack O'Connell
People
Try
Seen
Kind
Entity
Beastly
Fail
Since
Sort
Always
Been
Lot
America
Hollywood
Acting
Aware
Route
Started
The early versions of 'Shell's Wonderful World of Golf' were great. It's sort of interesting: as it progressed, it became worse and worse, but the early versions were really fantastic with Jimmy Demaret and Gene Sarazen. They were classics.
Donald Trump
Great
Wonderful
World
Jimmy
Worse
Classics
Gene
Sort
Became
Shell
Were
Versions
Golf
Interesting
Fantastic
Really
Early
I'm a firm believer in stories with arcs and beginnings and endings and all that. 'Scott Pilgrim' is sort of one long novel, and it's so long that I get confused and sort of tread water sometimes. But there's definitely a goal to it. People who just dismiss it as shallow, that's their prerogative, but it's not really my intent.
Bryan Lee O'Malley
People
Confused
Water
Sometimes
Long
Definitely
Shallow
Firm
Firm Believer
Sort
Pilgrim
Goal
Scott
Beginnings
Get
Endings
Intent
Just
Stories
Really
Dismiss
Who
Novel
Believer
Prerogative
Tread
Nico Tinbergen was my doctoral supervisor, and he was a benign, avuncular sort of influence; everybody loved him.
Richard Dawkins
Everybody
Benign
Supervisor
He
Him
Sort
Influence
Loved
But there's one thing we must all be clear about: terrorism is not the pursuit of legitimate goals by some sort of illegitimate means. Whatever the murderers may be trying to achieve, creating a better world certainly isn't one of their goals. Instead they are out to murder innocent people.
Salman Rushdie
Terrorism
People
World
Better
Goals
Achieve
Innocent
Better World
Whatever
Innocent People
Out
Must
One Thing
Some
About
Pursuit
Clear
Instead
Sort
Trying
May
Legitimate
Creating
Means
Certainly
Illegitimate
Thing
Of the big horror movies of the '70s, you have 'The Omen,' 'The Sentinel,' 'Rosemary's Baby,' 'The Stepford Wives,' 'Burnt Offerings' - these are all romantic fatalist movies where there's a sort of glimmer of hope... but darkness wins.
Chuck Palahniuk
Hope
You
Darkness
Big
Omen
Baby
Horror
Horror Movies
Wins
Sort
Wives
Where
Romantic
Burnt
Movies
Sentinel
Success is a sort of metaphysical experience. I live exactly as I did before - only on a slightly bigger scale. Naturally, I won't be corrupted. I'll sit there in my Rolls, uncorrupted, and tell my chauffeur, uncorruptedly, where to go.
Tom Stoppard
Success
Experience
Before
Sit
Live
Slightly
Scale
Tell
Corrupted
Exactly
Only
Chauffeur
Sort
Metaphysical
Go
Did
Rolls
Where
Bigger
Success Is
Naturally
In Chekhov, everything blends into its opposite, just fractionally, and this is sort of unsettling. And that's why you end up 100 years later asking, 'Is that moment tragic or comic?'
Tom Stoppard
You
Everything
Later
100 Years
Unsettling
Blends
Sort
Chekhov
Comic
Opposite
Years
Tragic
End
Up
Just
Asking
Moment
Why
You know, I was born blonde, and now I have to sort of keep it up. It's got more brown in it now; it's a little bit less blonde.
Martha MacCallum
You
Bit
I Was Born
Born
Brown
More
Know
Sort
Got
Blonde
Up
Little
Little Bit
Less
Keep
Now
It's always interesting to be playing against some of my best friends and some of my longtime teammates. You get to see them before the game and after the game and it's always nice to catch up but when the whistle blows it's sort of all business on the field.
Heather O'Reilly
Best
You
Game
Business
Before
Field
Nice
Teammates
See
Some
Catch
Longtime
Sort
Always
Up
Friends
Get
Blows
After
Against
Interesting
Them
Whistle
Playing
I remember Ella Fitzgerald sort of coming into my life like a bolt of lightning - like, what is that? It was one of the purest examples of God in art that I'd ever seen.
Leslie Odom, Jr.
Life
Art
God
Remember
My Life
Seen
I Remember
Purest
Examples
Lightning
Like
Sort
Coming
Fitzgerald
Bolt
Ever
Ella
Ella Fitzgerald
I think my whole life had centered on Democratic politics. I was very much in that bubble. I worked in the Clinton administration so I had all these friends from there, and then in Democratic politics in New York, so that's what we sort of bonded over - that was our religion, to a certain extent.
Kirsten Powers
Life
Politics
Religion
Think
Our
I Think
Administration
Bubble
Had
Over
New
Democratic
Sort
Clinton
Clinton Administration
Friends
Very
York
New York
Centered
Then
Worked
Much
Certain
Certain Extent
There And Then
Whole
Extent
Bonded
Characters in a book are very much like personalities divvied up within a family. In the end, it all averages out to a sort of overall averageness.
Douglas Coupland
Family
Book
Out
Characters
Like
Overall
Sort
Within
End
Up
Very
In The End
Personalities
Much
I was brought up in a family which valued natural history. Both my parents knew the names of all the British wildflowers, so as we went walking the country, I was constantly being exposed to a natural history sort of knowledge.
Richard Dawkins
Family
Knowledge
History
Natural
Parents
Country
Valued
Constantly
Brought
Both
Both My Parents
Knew
Names
Sort
Up
Walking
Being
Which
Natural History
Exposed
British
I think one of the reasons why our brand has grown is because we never close any opportunity. We are open to anything and then we sort of move forward from there.
Drew Scott
Opportunity
Think
Our
I Think
Never
Open
Sort
Because
Brand
Close
Any
Move
Move Forward
Anything
Then
Forward
Reasons
Grown
Why
I never set out to do this; I never set out to say, 'Can I break this record?' Then all of a sudden, the preparations made for the celebration put pressure on me. I said, 'Okay, I have to get there.' After 2,130, there was sort of a realization it was a foregone conclusion you're going to play tomorrow.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
Me
You
Tomorrow
Pressure
Made
Say
Okay
Out
Record
Never
Put
Sort
Said
Conclusion
Celebration
Get
Going
After
Break
Realization
Then
Preparations
Sudden
Play
Set
That brick that you're standing on, that foundation that you're standing on, there's a brick in there that was placed by someone you never knew, sort of a faceless possibility, but you're there now. You have an opportunity to put your own brick in there. That's what it feels like we're doing with 'Hamilton'
Christopher Jackson
You
Opportunity
Own
Possibility
Someone
Faceless
Never
Put
Knew
Feels
Like
Sort
Doing
Hamilton
Placed
Your
Brick
Standing
Now
Foundation
You know, things kind of happen organically and, you know, Broadway sort of happened out of a career in performing and - which happened out of practicing piano when I was a kid.
Harry Connick, Jr.
You
Broadway
Kid
Out
Kind
Piano
Performing
Know
Sort
Practicing
Happen
Happened
Which
Organically
Things
Career
The emergence of social media in the Broadway fan's life - it's sort of a serendipitous thing for us and for a lot of shows. I always wonder what 'Rent' would've felt like through that lens.
Christopher Jackson
Life
Social Media
Broadway
Emergence
Through
Like
Sort
Felt
Always
Rent
Lot
Wonder
Fan
Social
Lens
Us
Shows
Media
Thing
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