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I've been at this for a while, and to a very real extent, you look at cover art with the same sort of expectation you have for playing slot machines in Vegas. That is to say, you hope to break even and promise yourself not to flinch when all you get is the same sort of mix of fruit that you get in a cup of generic fruit cocktail.
James A. Moore
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I've played in Test matches before after injury without first playing a county game or warm-up of some sort.
James Anderson
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I write about personal experiences. I write about things that have happened to me and the people around me, so you just sort of keep this antenna up and on the lookout for things to say.
James Bay
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How I set myself apart is by creating the sort of real and honest music, which is who I'm also trying to be.
James Bay
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My songwriting process, and maybe loads of other people's, is just this sort of smashing together of emotions and stuff to make some music. It's kind of simple and really complex at the same time and, as you can see, incredibly hard to explain.
James Bay
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Time
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People
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I've been really trying to hone the art of songwriting in a way that doesn't follow any sort of guideline.
James Blake
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No author's writing more influenced my own than that of Robert Louis Stevenson. My first steampunk story, 'The Ape-box Affair,' is a sort of melange of Stevenson and P.G. Wodehouse.
James Blaylock
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Louis
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I always thought of myself as some sort of athlete until I started playing golf a couple years ago.
James Caan
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You have to not listen to the nay sayers because there will be many and often they'll be much more qualified than you and cause you to sort of doubt yourself.
James Cameron
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In 1992, the most treasured voter was a voter that would sort of swing back and forth, one that might vote for Republican for president, Democrat for governor. The voter that didn't have that strong of a partisan ID. These were the voters that we targeted.
James Carville
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The Academy Awards were basically created by the industry to promote pictures. They weren't really to acknowledge the performances. Then it became sort of this a great popularity contest and now, it's an incredible show and it's seen all over the world.
James Cromwell
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World
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Incredible
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Pictures
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Basically
I think up until that time a lot of focus on Internet coverage was either sort of the bits and bytes aspect of it, sort of the high-tech aspect of it, and the sociological aspect of it, which is how it was transforming culture.
James Daly
Time
Culture
Internet
Focus
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High-Tech
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The magazine was being started by a company that had no experience in business magazine publishing. It was a little difficult to get people to sort of buy into it and to join the staff, but we did.
James Daly
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I think self-criticism is sort of a given when you're an actor. It's also about being curious and not being flippant. Anyone who accepts being in this noble profession is automatically self-critical.
James Earl Jones
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There's a tacit belief that actors shouldn't write books, they're sort of allowed to direct movies but there will be a lot of skepticism, and they shouldn't do artwork or music. There are these invisible roadblocks to gain entree to these areas for actors, and you kind of have to crash through those invisible barriers.
James Franco
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You
Will
Books
Those
Kind
Tacit
Direct
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Through
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Actor
I've never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.
James Frey
Writing
Journalist
Some
Never
Had
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Historically
Accurate
Any
Autobiography
Being
Interest
Despite the metadata attached to each tweet, and despite trails of retweets and 'favorite' tweets, the Twitter corpus lacks the latticework of hyperlinks that makes Google's algorithms so potent. Twitter's famous hashtags - #sandyhook or #fiscalcliff or #girls - are the crudest sort of signposts, not much help for smart searching.
James Gleick
Smart
Girl
Google
Twitter
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Famous
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Tweet
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The movies I like watching the most are these sort of cinema verite, handheld films where you really get gritty with people. But I also have this strange affinity for old Rock Hudson/Doris Day movies and things that sort of pop out where you see the frames, where you have these 2D animation moments and split-screens and things like that.
James Gunn
Day
You
Strange
People
Cinema
Old
Gritty
Films
Frames
Out
See
Animation
Like
Most
Also
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Rock
Affinity
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Where
Movies
Really
Pop
Moments
Things
Watching
I don't use a computer in writing at all. I'm sort of old-fashioned about it.
James Horner
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About
Computer
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Use
Old-Fashioned
I've done it with Broadcast News-where there was no finish line, there was no agenda that I had to move all the characters to this point, that I was sort of open to what happens.
James L. Brooks
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What the Internet offers is this completely unfiltered transmission of thought to thought, of psyche to psyche, and whatever you're feeling, you can just sort of put it down and send it out there, and you can do it all in the confines of your room, without any actual contact.
James Lasdun
You
You Can Do It
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Out
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Offers
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More and more couples are having this negotiation or discussion, but I'm still amazed at the number who aren't and where the cultural norm sort of kicks in and they just assume that mom's got to be the one who stays home, not dad.
James Levine
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Mom
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It just so happens that the green religion is now taking over from the Christian religion. I don't think people have noticed that, but it's got all the sort of terms that religions use... The greens use guilt. That just shows how religious greens are. You can't win people round by saying they are guilty for putting (carbon dioxide) in the air.
James Lovelock
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Religion
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People
Win
Guilt
Christian
Think
Air
Guilty
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Religious
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Putting
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Greens
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Round
Carbon
Carbon Dioxide
Christian Religion
The dualism itself becomes a sort of presupposition or datum; its terms condition the further problem.
James Mark Baldwin
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There's a lot of politics in television and a lot of in-fighting and all that sort of stuff, but in the end, we are purveyors of entertainment. Viewers are not really bogged down in who's doing what and who hates who and who's doing best in the ratings. They watch television to be entertained.
James May
Politics
Best
Entertainment
Down
Television
Entertained
Hates
Ratings
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Doing
Lot
End
In The End
Really
Viewers
Bogged
Who
Watch
I'm conflicted because I like being in deserts. I find them sort of cleansing, but there's another part of me that hates dust. And I particularly hate dust in cars, so it's a huge conflict going on there.
James May
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Dust
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