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I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.
Danny Boyle
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But obviously you don't want to just be the guy who comes in and sort of spices up every movie. So yeah, definitely moving into more of a leading man role would be great, but on my own terms.
Danny McBride
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You
Man
Spices
Own
Just Be
Every
Definitely
Would
Would-Be
Guy
My Own
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Leading
Leading Man
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Obviously
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Yeah
Up
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Just
Want
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Moving
Who
I think in many ways, I'm sort of a blank canvas, because in many ways, I'm just observing the world and the people around me and their characters and letting them kind of explode off me and to find out why they're doing what they're doing. But then every once in awhile, I get to take on a whole new character.
Danny Pudi
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Me
People
World
Every
Think
Once
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Out
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Find
Blank
Blank Canvas
Take
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Because
Around
Doing
Off
Get
Just
Canvas
Them
Explode
Then
Many
Whole
Why
Letting
Awhile
I've always been more slight, and I've always sort of felt that I needed to be protected, especially with so many rowdy brothers and sisters.
Daphne Guinness
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Brothers
Brothers And Sisters
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Protected
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Felt
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Many
Needed
You'll almost encounter a superstition amongst musicians, people sort of go through strange rituals, what they need to do to write a song.
Dar Williams
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Musicians
Strange
People
Song
Superstition
Through
Rituals
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Almost
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Go
Encounter
Amongst
Need
I have another aspect of my career where I'm a scholar of Yiddish and Hebrew literature, and I'll say that when you study Yiddish literature, you know a whole lot about forgotten writers. Most of the books on my shelves were literally saved from the garbage. I am sort of very aware of what it means to be a forgotten artist in that sense.
Dara Horn
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Sense
Garbage
Saved
Books
Say
About
Writers
Scholar
Study
Know
Most
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Another
Am
Shelves
Were
Lot
Very
Yiddish
Artist
Forgotten
Where
Literally
Hebrew
Literature
Means
Aspect
Whole
Aware
Career
I guess a lot of people don't realise, but I'm always playing a character when I'm working. When you're always having people's images projected on you, who 'Daria' is as a person sort of disappears.
Daria Werbowy
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You
People
Guess
Projected
Having
Disappears
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Always
Lot
Person
Realise
Working
Who
Images
Playing
I've never had to rebel against my parents; I never had that sort of teen-angst thing where you didn't get along with them. My dad's always been my buddy.
Daria Werbowy
You
Parents
Never
Had
Buddy
Along
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Always
Been
Get
Where
Against
Them
Rebel
Dad
Thing
When you write fiction, you have an ideal reader in your mind who's sort of you but smarter.
Darin Strauss
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Mind
Write
Ideal
Smarter
Reader
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Fiction
Your
Surprisingly, Manhattan casts a sort of undersized shadow onto Long Island. Where I grew up, everyone seemed totally disconnected from the city - ours could have been any suburb, anywhere - though when traffic was thin, it took us only half an hour to get into midtown.
Darin Strauss
Long
Half
Took
Everyone
Though
Ours
City
Shadow
Totally
Seemed
Only
Long Island
Casts
Could
Onto
Hour
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Island
Disconnected
Been
Surprisingly
Traffic
Up
Get
Any
Where
Manhattan
Grew
Anywhere
Suburb
Us
Thin
As a kid, I was big into Al Green, Gladys Knight and the Pips, but as I got older, I started listening to all sorts of music, including country.
Darius Rucker
Music
Listening
Country
Big
Older
Kid
Knight
Sort
Got
Green
Including
Al
Started
I always loved horror, but I read all sorts of books. My favourite as a child was 'The Secret Garden' which has a big influence on Lord Loss, believe it or not!
Darren Shan
Garden
Big
Believe
Secret
Books
Favourite
Horror
Read
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Always
Lord
Loss
Big Influence
Child
Influence
Loved
Which
When I brought 'Sex and the City' to HBO, I wanted to do something independent, where I could be like, 'I don't care if anybody watches this thing. Just let me do something that I would love to see.' Honestly, the success of 'Sex and the City' was what was most surprising to me. It was sort of like the anti-TV-show in my mind.
Darren Star
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Love
Me
Care
Mind
Sex
Honestly
Independent
Sex And The City
Would
City
See
Brought
Something
Could
Like
Most
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Surprising
Just
Anybody
Where
Wanted
Thing
Watches
I think people have this sort of idea that 'Sex and the City' was this overnight sensation, and that can't be farther from the truth.
Darren Star
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People
Sex
Think
Sex And The City
City
Idea
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Overnight
Sensation
Farther
Russia was culturally isolated for so long that some sort of transformation needs to happen and will happen.
Dasha Zhukova
Needs
Will
Long
Transformation
Some
Russia
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Isolated
Happen
I haven't any sort of plans for the future but I reckon things will work out in some manner.
Dashiell Hammett
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Future
Will
Reckon
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Some
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Work Out
Manner
Plans
Things
I had grown up as a fan of Studs Terkel. In Chicago he sort of looms large and is mentioned often.
Dave Eggers
Mentioned
Had
He
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Chicago
Up
Often
Fan
Large
Grown
Grown-Up
I have to feel the audience. I enjoy that feeling of community. There's something sort of spiritual about it in a lot of ways. It's like we're all doing this together.
Dave Gahan
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Together
Feeling
Community
Enjoy
Ways
About
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Feel
Like
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Audience
Doing
Lot
I came to think that nobody from England could draw American comic books, because they were clearly all done by this sort of Mafia, all these guys with Italian and Irish names who had the whole thing sewn up. It was actually seeing a comic book drawn by Barry Smith, who was about my age, and English.
Dave Gibbons
Age
Book
Think
Books
Draw
Drawn
Mafia
Seeing
About
Guys
Could
Had
Nobody
Clearly
Names
Smith
Sort
Because
Comic
Comic Book
Comic Books
Came
Were
Italian
Up
Irish
American
Done
England
English
Who
Barry
Whole
Actually
Thing
I think maybe people see bands and musicians as some sort of superhero unrealistic sport that happens in another dimension where it's not real people and not real emotions. So, I grew up listening to Beatles records on my floor. That's how I learned how to play guitar. If it weren't for them, I wouldn't be a musician.
Dave Grohl
Musicians
Beatles
People
Emotions
Guitar
Listening
Think
Dimension
Musician
See
Some
Superhero
Unrealistic
Records
Sport
Learned
Sort
Another
How
Real
Were
Up
Bands
Real People
Maybe
Where
Grew
Happens
Them
Floor
Play
I found there's a fairly blatant racism in America that's already there, and I don't think I noticed it when I lived here as a kid. But when I went back to South Africa, and then it's sort of thrust in your face, and then came back here - I just see it everywhere.
Dave Matthews
Racism
Face
South Africa
Think
Back
Everywhere
Kid
See
Thrust
Blatant
Fairly
Sort
Came
South
America
Just
Africa
Then
Noticed
Your
Lived
Found
Here
Sometimes, we nerds of technology sort of don't think that the rules necessarily apply to us in the same way, but I think when you produce products that hundreds of millions of people, if not billions of people, are using, we have the same responsibilities as any other person representing the Fourth Estate.
Dave McClure
You
Technology
People
Sometimes
Think
Other
Hundreds
Way
Rules
Responsibilities
Nerds
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Person
Same
Any
Representing
Estate
Produce
Us
Products
Billions
Using
Necessarily
Apply
Fourth
Millions
Millions Of People
I'm not 17 anymore. I still have some of the same sort of anger, but I have a sense of humor about it... a sense of being constructive with that anger.
Dave Pirner
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Sense Of Humor
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Anymore
Pop belonged to more musical people in earlier times, but we've sort of gotten away from that. Now it's software people. I kind of feel like reclaiming it is in order.
Dave Sitek
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Software
Musical
Kind
More
Feel
Like
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Times
Order
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Now
Away
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Belonged
I feel like, anytime I'm onstage, I tend to feel very connected with people in the audience or with the sort of heartbeat or tempo of the audience.
Daveed Diggs
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Tempo
Tend
Onstage
Feel
Like
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Audience
Very
Heartbeat
Anytime
Connected
For my books of nonfiction I write about subjects I find fascinating. I've been a Yankees and a Lou Gehrig fan for decades, so I wrote 'Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man.' It's more the story of his great courage than of his baseball playing. Children face all sorts of challenges, and it's my hope that some will be inspired by the courage of Lou Gehrig.
David A. Adler
Hope
Great
Man
Challenges
Courage
Will
Face
Books
Find
Some
About
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Inspired
Write
Wrote
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Yankees
Nonfiction
Been
His
Subjects
Than
Decades
Children
Fan
Story
Fascinating
Luckiest
Baseball
Playing
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