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I've always been a glass-half-empty sort of person.
Jane Fallon
Sort
Always
Been
Person
Chimps can do all sorts of things we thought that only we could do - like tool-making and abstraction and generalisation. They can learn a language - sign language - and they can use the signs. But when you think of our intellects, even the brightest chimp looks like a very small child.
Jane Goodall
You
Language
Thought
Signs
Think
Our
Sign
Only
Small
Small Child
Could
Abstraction
Like
Looks
Learn
Sort
Very
Child
Use
Even
Brightest
Things
I have only ever been to Antigua to hop over to other Caribbean islands. The airport had always seemed perfectly lovely, but I'm a quiet sort of holiday girl, and Antigua always seemed big.
Jane Green
Girl
Big
Other
Caribbean
Airport
Hop
Seemed
Only
Had
Perfectly
Over
Sort
Islands
Always
Been
Quiet
Lovely
Holiday
Ever
Yes, I have a good sense of humor to sort of last a long time in show business, and I think to be able to find comedic value in who you are and the people that you work is always a good thing.
Jane Krakowski
Work
Time
Good
You
Business
Sense Of Humor
People
Humor
Value
Long
Long Time
Sense
Think
Find
Able
Good Sense
Good Thing
Comedic
Sort
Always
Yes
Show
Show Business
Who
Thing
Last
I've never really had specific goals and stuff like that - I think I sort of learned early on that if you kind of let life roll in at your feet, you will get a lot of great stuff if you are just aware and open to it.
Jane Lynch
Life
Great
You
Goals
Will
Think
Kind
Never
Open
Had
Stuff
Great Stuff
Feet
Like
Learned
Sort
Lot
Get
Roll
Just
Really
Your
Aware
Specific
Early
I've come to recognize what I call my 'inside interests.' Telling stories. And helping people tell their stories is a sort of interpersonal gardening. My work at NBC News was to report the news, but in hindsight, I often tried to look for some insight to share that might spark a moment of recognition in a viewer.
Jane Pauley
Work
News
Gardening
People
Recognition
Recognize
Tell
Telling
Tried
Inside
Insight
Some
Share
Come
Look
Call
Sort
Hindsight
Report
Often
Stories
Might
Spark
Interests
Viewer
Moment
Helping
Helping People
NBC
Interpersonal
I'm very sensitive about being held up as some sort of example. I don't consider myself any sort of role model at all. I have great advantages over many other working women, and my schedule allows me more time with my kids than many working women have.
Jane Pauley
Time
Myself
Great
Me
Women
Example
Other
Consider
Kids
Some
About
More
Schedule
Advantages
Over
Sort
Up
Very
Than
Model
Role
Role Model
Any
Being
Sensitive
Held
Working
Many
The mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, it will even dance under your cudgel; but should the ring slip, and you lose your hold, the brute will turn and rend you.
Jane Porter
You
Dance
Will
Lose
Slip
Ring
Bear
Through
Brute
Sort
Mob
Nose
Hold
While
Turn
Should
Your
Even
I mean, not wanting to be flip about it, but even within a corporation, you get sort of cult-like behaviors sometimes.
Jane Poynter
You
Sometimes
Corporation
About
Sort
Within
Get
Behaviors
Wanting
Mean
Flip
Even
If the tenth of the population that is gay became visible tomorrow, the panic of the majority of people would inspire repressive legislation of a sort that would shock even the pessimists among us.
Jane Rule
Gay
People
Inspire
Tomorrow
Panic
Visible
Would
Tenth
Majority
Sort
Became
Shock
Legislation
Repressive
Us
Pessimists
Even
Population
Among
Sometimes, a novel is like a train: the first chapter is a comfortable seat in an attractive carriage, and the narrative speeds up. But there are other sorts of trains, and other sorts of novels. They rush by in the dark; passengers framed in the lighted windows are smiling and enjoying themselves.
Jane Smiley
Chapter
Dark
Sometimes
First
Other
Speeds
Framed
Carriage
Rush
Windows
Lighted
Like
Attractive
Smiling
Sort
Comfortable
Narrative
Passengers
Up
Train
Trains
Themselves
Novel
Novels
Seat
Enjoying
As a child, I always enjoyed building forts by stringing up bed sheets and clothes. I continue to be inspired by makeshift structures, including my own kids' forts and temporary architecture of all sorts.
Janet Echelman
Architecture
Building
Own
Clothes
Kids
Temporary
My Own
Structures
Inspired
Sort
Sheets
Always
Bed
Continue
Up
Child
Including
Enjoyed
All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted.
Janet Erskine Stuart
Spiritual
Gifts
Through
Come
Sort
Accepted
Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing.
Janet Suzman
Patriotism
Too Much
Own
Sense
Think
Too
Other
Jews
Carpet
Carry
Self
Had
Put
Bag
Emphasis
Perhaps
Sort
Around
Hand
Nationality
Being
Might
Much
Thing
Always you find that the more decisive event wins so my father's sort of annual decisiveness which came upon him on the Day of Atonement every year, he suddenly remembered that he was Jewish.
Janet Suzman
Day
You
Father
Year
Every
Find
Atonement
More
Wins
He
Remembered
Annual
Him
Sort
Always
Came
Which
Decisive
Decisiveness
Suddenly
Event
Jewish
I think there's part of me that's longing to play a Sherlock Holmes or sort of a House character, like a real detective. Like a real, moody detective. Like a real, sarcastic, mentally ill detective. I think it would be really fun to do something like that.
Janet Varney
Character
Me
Moody
Longing
Think
Would
Would-Be
Detective
Something
Mentally
Part
Like
House
Sort
Real
Sherlock
Sherlock Holmes
Holmes
Really
Ill
Sarcastic
Fun
Play
Don't get too caught up in the typical ideas of what makes a good drummer. Those things are sort of unattainable, and they're not always creatively your most useful things to know.
Janet Weiss
Good
Too
Typical
Those
Unattainable
Ideas
Know
Most
Drummer
Sort
Makes
Always
Caught
Up
Get
Your
Useful
Creatively
Things
With every record, with each band, I just try to make a song good. I'm not so much focusing on my technique. There are a million better drummers than me. I try to adapt to the songwriter; I try to adapt to the situation and retain my sort of melodic power. My goal is for the band to be good.
Janet Weiss
Good
Me
Song
Better
Try
Power
Band
Situation
Every
Melodic
Focusing
Record
Retain
Songwriter
Drummers
Make
Sort
Goal
Than
Just
Much
Each
Technique
Million
Adapt
I feel like a part of my role being a musician and part of why I want to be a musician is to show women an alternative to sort of the cultural norms, the stereotypes of what we're supposed to be, demure and quiet and motherly.
Janet Weiss
Women
Musician
Part
Feel
Stereotypes
Like
Supposed
Sort
Alternative
Cultural
Norms
Quiet
Role
Being
Want
Show
Why
Pink cocktails look quite friendly. They have an umbrella in them, some sort of fruit... they look innocent, and boy, do they pack a punch.
Jared Harris
Fruit
Innocent
Punch
Some
Look
Sort
Boy
Pink
Umbrella
Friendly
Quite
Pack
Them
Cocktails
My dad has sometimes felt that I grew up a little lacking in sufficient eccentricity - in the sense that I'm willing to live as an adult in a house with walls that are parallel to each other, that sort of thing.
Jaron Lanier
Sometimes
Walls
Sense
Live
Other
Willing
Parallel
Eccentricity
Adult
House
Sort
Felt
Up
Lacking
Grew
Little
Each
Dad
Sufficient
Thing
I think basically becoming famous has taken the place of going to Heaven in modern society, hasn't it? That's the place where your dreams will come true. It's an act of faith now; they think that's going to sort things out.
Jarvis Cocker
Dreams
Faith
Will
Think
Society
Out
Taken
True
Come
Sort
Becoming
Modern
Going
Heaven
Famous
Where
Modern Society
Place
Act
Your
Your Dreams
Now
Things
Basically
I've always had an eye for nature, but it's the sort of thing to keep quiet about, because I don't want to come across as a mad hippy. But it makes sense to appreciate those things.
Jarvis Cocker
Nature
Sense
Those
Mad
Eye
About
Had
Come
Sort
Because
Makes
Always
Hippy
Quiet
Want
Across
Keep
Thing
Things
Appreciate
I don't really have any interest in doing Donald Blake stories. Maybe it's just I don't know what to do with that sort of alter ego.
Jason Aaron
Ego
Blake
Know
Alter
Sort
Doing
Donald
Any
Maybe
Just
Stories
Interest
Really
I wanted to be Dustin Hoffman or Robert De Niro or Al Pacino. I thought I was going to be a dramatic actor, but comedy sort of started out first, and I was like, 'Maybe I'll find some more drama later on in my career.'
Jason Bateman
Comedy
Thought
First
Drama
Dramatic
Later
Niro
Out
Find
Some
More
Like
Robert
Robert De Niro
De Niro
Sort
Dustin Hoffman
Going
Maybe
Wanted
Al
Actor
Al Pacino
Started
Career
I don't want to be obnoxious with my ambition or sound like I expect any sort of entitlement here. Hollywood is not in the business of humoring people.
Jason Bateman
Business
People
Entitlement
Ambition
Obnoxious
Like
Sort
Sound
Expect
Any
Want
Hollywood
Here
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