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I love school, but when I was going to school, I sort of used it as an opportunity to figure out what I love to do.
Christa B. Allen
Love
School
Opportunity
Out
Sort
Going
Used
Figure
When I went to Sweden, I sort of found out who I was.
Christen Press
Out
Sort
Sweden
Who
Found
I think, in the U.S., we have such a focus on the physicality, on being the best athlete, that it sort of overshadows the football aspect of it.
Christen Press
Best
Focus
Think
Athlete
Physicality
Football
Sort
Being
Aspect
Being The Best
When I left the U.S., I sort of left that frustration and that pressure to make the national team behind me.
Christen Press
Me
Frustration
Pressure
National
Make
Sort
Left
National Team
Behind
Team
Some of the characters that I played as a kid were rebellious teenagers, and people would see those performances and project a particular image onto me. And 90 percent of the time, I would do everything I could to live up to that sort of image and be that individual.
Christian Slater
Time
Me
People
Live
Teenagers
Everything
Project
Kid
Those
Characters
Would
See
Some
Percent
Could
Individual
Onto
Performance
Particular
Sort
Were
Up
Rebellious
Image
Played
I do reinvent old hits of mine and sort of give them a new life.
Christina Aguilera
Life
New Life
Old
Mine
Give
New
Sort
Hits
Them
Reinvent
If you think about it, candidate Obama, Sen. Obama, was running on sort of long-run economic issues, like restoring prosperity to the middle class, dealing with the perennial problem of health care in the United States. He talked a lot about the budget deficit, about the need to transition to clean energy.
Christina Romer
Health
You
Class
Problem
Prosperity
Care
Energy
Think
Deficit
States
Obama
Running
Restoring
About
Economic
Perennial
Clean
Clean Energy
He
Budget
Budget Deficit
Like
Talked
Sort
Health Care
Dealing
Issues
Lot
Candidate
Middle
Middle Class
Transition
United
United States
Need
I approach life with a 'jump' sort of mentality, although I wasn't raised to take crazy risks. I was raised to be a crazy hard worker. It seems to be a pretty good match of qualities.
Christina Tosi
Life
Good
Crazy
Risks
Approach
Pretty
Pretty Good
Seems
Mentality
Take
Qualities
Sort
Although
Match
Jump
Worker
Hard
Hard Worker
Raised
When my father passed away and then when later on I gave birth, those are sort of ground-breaking experiences that put everything else into perspective.
Christine Lagarde
Perspective
Father
Birth
Gave
Else
Everything
Later
Everything Else
Those
Put
Sort
Passed
Experiences
Then
Away
A new idea is like carbonated liquid in a bottle. You just sort of shake it until the cork pops, then you write and write.
Christopher Buckley
You
Cork
Shake
Write
Bottle
Idea
New
Like
Until
Sort
New Idea
Liquid
Just
Then
Pops
I love Washington. I have an affection for the place. For a satirist, I think it's sort of Disneyland. I mean, you know, there's always some inspiration in the morning's headlines.
Christopher Buckley
Love
Morning
You
Affection
Think
Some
Inspiration
Headlines
Know
Sort
Always
Place
Mean
Disneyland
Washington
Satirist
Fiction, for me, is sort of a protracted way of saying all the things I wished I said the night before.
Christopher Buckley
Saying
Me
Before
Way
Wished
Sort
Protracted
Said
Fiction
Things
Night
Lyrically and thematically, the title 'Doctor Faith', that song is about therapy, psychotherapy, and that song is about emotions and personal insight. I think all the songs on the record sort of go along with that.
Christopher Cross
Faith
Song
Emotions
Doctor
Think
Lyrically
Insight
Record
About
Songs
Along
Sort
Go
Personal
Psychotherapy
Title
Therapy
I mean, it's pretty disillusioning for all of us right now, and we feel pretty helpless when Congress, their approval rating is thirteen percent, and across the board, whether you're a Democrat or a Republican, you sort of want to walk in and fire everybody.
Christopher Cross
You
Walk
Fire
Congress
Everybody
Approval
Pretty
Percent
Rating
Feel
Democrat
Sort
Want
Whether
Republican
Board
Mean
Us
Across
Helpless
Now
Right
Thirteen
I didn't go to film school. I had been an actor in movies, I had been in plays, and then I just sort of jumped into it.
Christopher Guest
School
Had
Sort
Go
Been
Just
Movies
Then
Film
Actor
Film School
Plays
Doc Brown had a feverous imagination. He was constantly coming up with new ways and solutions to various issues, and time travel was one of them. I was just very inspired by being able to portray somebody of that sort. He's a man of tremendous energy and excitement about discovery.
Christopher Lloyd
Time
Travel
Man
Somebody
Energy
Imagination
Tremendous
Ways
Solutions
Constantly
Able
About
Brown
Various
Inspired
Had
He
Excitement
New
Sort
Coming
Issues
Discovery
Time Travel
Up
Very
New Ways
Just
Being
Them
Portray
Uncle Fester always intrigued me. I certainly always enjoyed his kind of humor. He's just full of mischief in a kind of macabre way. I don't see anything twisted about it. It's sort of ridiculous and wacky. It's sort of fun.
Christopher Lloyd
Me
Humor
Uncle
Way
Intrigued
Kind
See
About
Mischief
He
Sort
Always
Wacky
His
Fester
Just
Anything
Full
Certainly
Fun
Ridiculous
Enjoyed
Twisted
I have that special sort of novelist body of knowledge which is extraordinarily wide and very, very shallow. So I can usually answer the questions on 'Jeopardy,' but never the bonus question.
Christopher Moore
Knowledge
Bonus
Extraordinarily
Shallow
Never
Sort
Answer
Question
Questions
Very
Which
Body
Special
Novelist
Jeopardy
Wide
I've sort of made a reputation by high-stepping my way out of genre. As soon as somebody says, 'He does this,' I'm not standing there anymore.
Christopher Moore
Made
Somebody
Reputation
Way
Says
Out
He
Soon
Genre
Sort
Does
Anymore
Standing
I'm the sort of person that starts digging a hole and doesn't stop until it's finished.
Christopher Paolini
Finished
Starts
Digging
Until
Sort
Person
Stop
Hole
Well, I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer and then I got a job as an actor.
Christopher Walken
Time
Business
Job
Long
Long Time
Dancer
Singer
Well
Sort
Got
Then
Show
Show Business
Actor
I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer, and then I got a job as an actor.
Christopher Walken
Time
Business
Job
Long
Long Time
Dancer
Singer
Sort
Got
Then
Show
Show Business
Actor
I'm recording an album. It's sort of techno mixed with garbage - you, know, intense in-your-face music.
Christy Romano
Music
You
Recording
Garbage
Know
Sort
Mixed
Intense
Techno
Album
I think the reasons I retired stay the same. I don't want to change my style. I can't take a punch like I used to for whatever reason. I've heard all sorts of theories as to why that would happen, but I can't do it.
Chuck Liddell
Change
Style
Whatever
Think
Punch
Would
Stay
Take
Retired
Like
Sort
Heard
Same
Want
Happen
Used
Theories
Reason
Reasons
Why
My characters tend to be more dynamic because they're reaching that point in their lives where their old way of being is breaking down. They're conflicted by the idea that they don't know what's next. You could call it Kierkegaard's leap of faith, when you get tired of sort of reinventing yourself on a very superficial level.
Chuck Palahniuk
Faith
Tired
You
Yourself
Old
Down
Way
Characters
Superficial
More
Tend
Point
Could
Idea
Know
Reaching
Leap
Leap Of Faith
Call
Sort
Because
Very
Get
Being
Where
Dynamic
Breaking
Next
Lives
Level
Reinventing
I've never really had a fear of heights; in fact, I love being up high, so hanging from wires high above everyone's head has always sort of felt natural for me.
Ciara Renee
Love
Me
Natural
Fear
Heights
Everyone
High
Above
Fact
Never
Had
Wires
Head
Sort
Felt
Always
Up
Hanging
Being
In Fact
Really
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