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'Leave It To Beaver' is a fairly famous show in America, but I don't think it travelled. It was one of those typical '50s family comedies. I was in the pilot episode as sort of the dark presence: my character was called Eddie Haskill.
Harry Shearer
Family
Character
Dark
Pilot
Think
Typical
Those
Comedies
Eddie
Fairly
Sort
Beaver
Leave
America
Famous
Episode
Show
Travelled
Presence
It seemed to me you could do anything in comics. So I started doing my thing, which is mainly influenced by novelists, stand-up comedians, that sort of thing.
Harvey Pekar
Me
You
Seemed
Could
Mainly
Comedians
Sort
Comics
Doing
Influenced
Anything
Which
Novelists
Thing
Started
I was sort of on a mission with 'American Splendor.' I wanted to try to prove that comics could do things. I wanted to expand them beyond superheroes and talking animals. And I knew that was going to take a long time. But I just started writing an autobiography about my quotidian life.
Harvey Pekar
Life
Time
Writing
Try
Long
Animals
Long Time
About
Superheroes
Could
Splendor
Take
Knew
Mission
Beyond
Sort
Talking
Prove
Comics
Expand
American
Going
Just
Autobiography
Wanted
Them
Things
Started
This first-generation narrative keeps happening over and over and over again, whether it was Irish or Jewish or our community, South Asians, Japanese-Americans, Mexican-Americans. We've all gone through this sort of bridge, and it will continue to happen.
Hasan Minhaj
Will
Gone
Community
Our
Our Community
Through
Over
Sort
Narrative
Continue
South
Irish
Happen
Happening
Whether
Again
Asians
Bridge
Keeps
Jewish
A lot of times in movies, especially in sequels, the characters become caricatures and just sort of improv machines and joke machines, rather than people you can actually connect to.
Hayden Schlossberg
You
People
Joke
Become
Caricatures
Machines
Characters
Rather
Sort
Lot
Times
Than
Improv
Just
Movies
Sequels
Connect
Actually
I think Korean barbecue is very accessible to Americans because it's sort of similar to something we know, but with different flavours.
Heather Graham
Think
Similar
Something
Know
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Because
Accessible
Korean
Very
American
Different
Barbecue
I think the only way that the U.S. human spaceflight program is going to get really revitalized, really put sort of an Apollo level push on it, is if some other country, perhaps China, were to actually have a landed flight to the moon and brought back our American flag and put it in Tiananmen Square.
Heidi Hammel
Moon
Country
Think
Other
Back
Our
Way
Some
Brought
Only
Push
Put
Perhaps
Sort
Were
Square
Get
American
Flag
Going
Human
American Flag
China
To The Moon
Landed
Apollo
Really
Flight
Actually
Level
Program
I think that when you're writing fiction what you're doing is reflecting life as you see it, and putting down how you think and how other people think, and the sort of confusions that you don't normally like to admit to.
Helen Fielding
Life
You
People
Writing
Down
Think
Other
See
Admit
Putting
Like
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How
Doing
Reflecting
Normally
Fiction
Confusions
The whole 'R' rating depends on a strange sort of fantasy land where all adults are responsible people, and children only ever go to the cinema with their parents.
Helen Mirren
Strange
People
Cinema
Parents
Responsible
Only
Rating
Adult
Sort
Go
Depends
Where
Children
Land
Fantasy
Whole
Ever
I think I started writing about identity, and I used to believe that identity is the story. But now I'm not so much subscribed to that. I mean, with 'Mr. Fox,' it has a feminist agenda as well. And so, as I sort of been away from writing about identity, I still feel that kind of tug of roots and, you know, cultural background.
Helen Oyeyemi
You
Writing
Believe
Think
Background
Kind
About
Feel
Know
Well
Identity
Sort
Still
Feminist
Been
Cultural
Subscribed
Tug
Story
Mean
Agenda
Much
Roots
Used
Now
Away
Started
Fox
I've been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I've been in a public bathroom and had the hand come under the stall with a paper and pen. That sort of thing anybody can live without.
Helen Reddy
Conversation
Live
Bathroom
Paper
Pen
Had
Come
Sort
Without
Been
Hand
Up
Anybody
Children
Fan
Public
Stall
Serious
Thing
People say, 'You're still breast-feeding, that's so generous.' Generous, no! It gives me boobs and it takes my thighs away! It's sort of like natural liposuction. I'd carry on breast-feeding for the rest of my life if I could.
Helena Bonham Carter
Life
Me
You
Natural
People
Rest
My Life
Say
Carry
People Say
Gives
Could
Takes
Generous
Like
Sort
Still
If I Could
Away
Thighs
It's an honor to have people follow you and watch you. I do get a lot of fan mail and I read everything. It's very flattering and sort of surreal. I'm very glad that people like what I do and they want to follow what's going on.
Helena Mattsson
You
People
Honor
Everything
Follow
Glad
Mail
Like
Read
Sort
Surreal
Lot
Very
Get
Going
Want
Fan
Fan Mail
Flattering
Watch
Happiness, as a word, has become sort of equated with these smiling images on television, selling some nice cream or food product or something. It's seen a bit as being a stupid consumer.
Helena Norberg-Hodge
Happiness
Food
Word
Seen
Stupid
Become
Nice
Bit
Television
Some
Something
Consumer
Smiling
Sort
Equated
Selling
Being
Cream
Product
Images
I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.
Henri Matisse
God
Prayer
Mind
Believe
Think
Frame
Some
Oneself
Put
Buddhist
Know
Sort
Close
Essential
Whether
Which
Really
Thing
It really comes down to fit. When it comes to a suit, for example, it's important that the shoulders fit you well; the length of the pants are important. That kind of shows me right away if you're into it or if you don't care. If they get the shoulders right, you know that they have some sort of interest in getting a good look.
Henrik Lundqvist
Good
Me
You
Care
Example
Important
Down
Pants
Kind
Some
For Example
Know
Look
Well
Sort
Fit
Get
Getting
Interest
Length
Really
Shoulders
Shows
Away
Right
Right Away
Suit
It used to be that you would go in to see a CEO, and you would ask them, 'Is your company for sale?' and if they said 'No, we have no interest in selling,' that was sort of the end of the conversation.
Henry Kravis
You
Conversation
Would
See
No Interest
Sort
Said
Go
Sale
End
Selling
Interest
Them
CEO
Ask
Your
Used
Company
Since the Gothic, European sculpture has become overgrown with moss, weeds - all sorts of surface excrescences which completely concealed shape. It has been Brancusi's special mission to get rid of this overgrowth and to make us once more shape-conscious.
Henry Moore
Become
Once
Once More
Has-Been
More
Weeds
Shape
Concealed
Since
Mission
Moss
Make
Sort
Surface
Gothic
Been
Get
Which
Us
Sculpture
Rid
Special
European
Stop-motion is sort of twitchy; you can feel the life in it. If we were to remove that completely, there'd be no point in it.
Henry Selick
Life
You
Remove
No Point
Point
Feel
Sort
Were
Maybe I'm sort of like the players - there's still a lot of little boy in me.
Herb Brooks
Me
Like
Sort
Boy
Still
Lot
Maybe
Little
Players
Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession.
Herbert Hoover
Life
Truth
Good
Training
World
Men
Engineering
Exact
Mental
More
Pursue
Had
Sort
Sciences
Makes
Deals
Did
Might
Profession
Even
Conscience
Start
When I was a child, there really weren't very many video games, but I do have memories of 'Pong.' Maybe it was 'Pong.' It was a home system in Japan, so maybe it wasn't the real 'Pong.' It was just sort of a Japanese game that was similar to 'Pong.'
Hideo Kojima
Video Games
Home
Game
Memories
System
Similar
Sort
Real
Were
Very
Child
Maybe
Just
Japan
Japanese
Video
Really
Games
Many
The cool thing about a start-up - this is sort of the entrepreneur side of me - is that you can make it grow as much as you can. Or you can squander the talent as much as you want. But it's up to you.
Hilary Knight
Me
You
Entrepreneur
Side
About
Talent
Make
Sort
Up
Squander
Want
Much
Cool
Cool Thing
Grow
Thing
Start-Up
I know there are sort of misnomers that women's hockey isn't as physical or fast as the guys, but women's hockey is very dynamic and tactful in its own ways. It's just as respectable of a sport as any male counterpart.
Hilary Knight
Women
Own
Respectable
Ways
Physical
Guys
Counterpart
Know
Sport
Sort
Male
Very
Any
Just
Hockey
Dynamic
Fast
I don't actually, as a general policy, block any sort of cookies. I keep them all turned on, and that's because I'm willing to make the tradeoff that I let companies gather this information about me in return for a better experience.
Hilary Mason
Me
Experience
Better
Willing
About
General
Make
Return
Policy
Sort
Because
Block
Any
Information
Them
Turned
Cookies
Companies
Keep
Actually
Gather
Most of the time, I'm a little bewildered or sort of feel out of place.
Hiro Murai
Time
Out
Feel
Bewildered
Most
Sort
Place
Little
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