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It takes me a long time to write, and I trust myself, so I write very sparsely, so when I do, I know it's good, you know what I mean? Rather than writing a whole bunch and having to sort out what's good and what's not.
Earl Sweatshirt
Time
Myself
Good
Me
You
Trust
Writing
Long
Long Time
Out
Rather
Having
Write
Takes
Know
Sort
Very
Bunch
Than
Mean
Whole
I like humor: the sort of gentle humor that points out human foibles.
Ed Greenwood
Humor
Out
Points
Like
Sort
Gentle
Human
The place we go as a band is a sort of samadhi, intensely emotional and not bound by self-thinking. And lyrically, one of the goals is to suggest that something is going on beyond what you can see.
Ed Kowalczyk
You
Goals
Band
Lyrically
See
Something
Emotional
Bound
Beyond
Sort
Go
Intensely
Going
Place
Suggest
One of the lyrics from Bono that always sticks with me is 'Where the Streets Have No Name.' Just the name of the song, that sort of oneness, and there isn't any division in yourself, and your just at peace and fired up at the same time.
Ed Kowalczyk
Time
Me
Peace
Yourself
Song
Bono
Lyrics
Oneness
Fired
Division
Name
Sort
Sticks
Always
Up
Same
Any
Just
Same Time
Where
Your
Streets
I think lots of men are like that. We sort of get dressed by our girlfriends.
Ed Weeks
Men
Think
Our
Dressed
Girlfriends
Like
Sort
Lots
Get
When I was a kid, in a very white boarding school in England in the '90s, I had this sort of middle part that kids had - that sort of long, floppy hair. So I was always desperate to have long, floppy hair, and I would try and brush it and spray it, and it would just look like a Brillo pad!
Ed Weeks
School
Try
Desperate
Long
Hair
White
Kid
Kids
Would
Brush
Had
Part
Like
Look
Sort
Always
Spray
Very
Just
Middle
Boarding
Boarding School
Pad
England
They're such hierarchical things, film sets, they're sort of mini societies. Often they're incredibly political places.
Eddie Redmayne
Political
Sets
Incredibly
Mini
Hierarchical
Sort
Often
Places
Film
Things
Societies
Film Sets
I've never been someone that was sort of blessed with an innate talent of just being able to do things. I had to work at it and learn from mistakes.
Eddie Redmayne
Work
Blessed
Mistakes
Able
Someone
Never
Had
Talent
Learn
Sort
Been
Just
Being
Things
Innate
When I was 13, I got my first guitar, and I could sort of play Ted Nugent songs, but I couldn't play the solos. But I could play along with entire Ramones songs.
Eddie Vedder
Guitar
First
Ramones
Solos
Entire
Could
Songs
Along
Sort
Got
Play
Ted
I remember the general anxiety of teenager, and I remember establishing some sort of appearance based on what my peers would think. And cliques, oh my God, the worst. The worst!
Eden Sher
God
Anxiety
Remember
Think
Teenager
Peers
Worst
Would
Some
General
Sort
Cliques
Oh
Oh My God
Establishing
Appearance
Based
My wife tells me I am a male chauvinist pig and I have to sort of admit it. In my office and in my home, I'm not very democratic. I think of myself as a benevolent dictator.
Edgar Mitchell
Myself
Home
Me
Wife
Think
Benevolent
Tells
Admit
Democratic
Pig
Sort
Am
Male
Very
Dictator
Office
I asked my body if it was going to die or not from AIDS. And it said 'no.' I sort of paid attention to that.
Edmund White
AIDS
Attention
Sort
Said
Die
Going
Asked
Body
Paid
My father was a sort of John Wayne Texan who'd worked as a cowboy when he was young. He'd participated in rattlesnake round-ups and swum with copperheads.
Edmund White
Father
Young
Wayne
John
John Wayne
Rattlesnake
He
Sort
Texan
Cowboy
Worked
There are a lot of historical novelists who do the research about the clothes and maybe even the eating utensils, but they're basically taking modern people and putting them in old drag - it's sort of the 'Gone With the Wind' approach.
Edmund White
People
Old
Wind
Clothes
Gone
Research
Approach
Eating
About
Taking
Putting
Sort
Lot
Historical
Modern
Maybe
Them
Gone With The Wind
Who
Even
Novelists
Basically
Drag
I'm of the belief that you pursue your interests, you pull it all in, and you sort it out later.
Edward Burtynsky
You
Later
Out
Pursue
Sort
Interests
Your
Belief
Pull
A lot of my friends, we all grew up sort of not very wealthy. And in England, whatever ends up being a negative, that's a positive.
Edward Enninful
Positive
Negative
Whatever
Wealthy
Sort
Lot
Up
Friends
Very
Being
Ends
Grew
England
Daydreaming is one of the key sources of poetry - a poem often starts as a daydream that finds its way into language - and walking seems to bring a different sort of alertness, an associative kind of thinking, a drifting state of mind.
Edward Hirsch
Key
Language
Mind
Thinking
Starts
State
Way
Kind
Finds
Seems
Poem
Drifting
Poetry
Daydream
Daydreaming
Sort
Sources
Walking
Often
Different
Bring
There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house.
Edward Hopper
Sunlight
About
Part
House
Sort
Upper
Elation
Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.
Edward Kennedy
Me
History
You
Trouble
Accident
Some
About
Terrible
Sort
Hear
Been
Going
Dad
Now
Things
Men of prayer, before anything else, are indispensable to the furtherance of the kingdom of God on earth. No other sort will fit in the scheme or do the deed. Men, great and influential in other things but small in prayer, cannot do the work Almighty God has set out for His Church to do in this, His world.
Edward McKendree Bounds
Work
God
Great
Prayer
World
Church
Will
Men
Before
Other
Else
Earth
Out
Kingdom
Small
Indispensable
Scheme
Almighty
Almighty God
Sort
His
Fit
Influential
Anything
Anything Else
Cannot
Deed
Things
Set
I grew up with the understanding that the world I lived in was one where people enjoyed a sort of freedom to communicate with each other in privacy, without it being monitored, without it being measured or analyzed or sort of judged by these shadowy figures or systems, any time they mention anything that travels across public lines.
Edward Snowden
Time
Freedom
Privacy
People
Communicate
World
Understanding
Other
Analyzed
Systems
Shadowy
Mention
Sort
Judged
Without
Lines
Up
Any
Being
Where
Grew
Anything
Public
Across
Measured
Figures
Each
Lived
Travels
Enjoyed
When you are in positions of privileged access... you see things that may be disturbing. Over time, that awareness of wrongdoing sort of builds up.
Edward Snowden
Time
You
Awareness
Positions
See
Disturbing
Over
Wrongdoing
Sort
Access
Builds
Up
Privileged
May
Things
I've always been drawn to all sorts of genres and all sorts of voices.
Edward Zwick
Drawn
Voices
Genres
Sort
Always
Been
I think there is a very powerful wish that we all have of being self-contained and having sort of opted out or choosing to remove ourselves from society and to have no ties and no obligations, and even no possessions. To be free in a particular way.
Edward Zwick
Obligations
Free
Wish
Remove
Think
Society
Way
Possessions
Ourselves
Out
Having
Self-Contained
Powerful
Particular
Particular Way
Sort
Ties
Very
Being
Choosing
Even
There seem to be two sorts of actors. Some people play themselves marvellously, and others, like me, rather like to become someone else.
Eileen Atkins
Me
People
Some People
Become
Others
Else
Some
Seem
Someone
Rather
Like
Sort
Themselves
Actor
Play
Two
I didn't know how to write a novel, so I sort of let it happen in waves. The only way I could write it was to think like scenes in a movie.
Eileen Myles
Think
Waves
Way
Only
Scenes
Could
Write
Like
Know
Sort
How
Movie
Happen
Novel
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