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Me being a shy kid, very closed off, showing vulnerability in a character was sort of a safe space on stage. It's always been in my toolbox, there for me when I need it.
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Character
Me
Space
Closed
Stage
Kid
Safe
Sort
Vulnerability
Always
Been
Off
Very
Being
Showing
Shy
Need
TV is sort of the only way to go for an actress my age to make a decent salary; with independent films, you just can't.
Jessica Lange
You
Age
Films
Way
Independent
Independent Films
TV
Only
Make
Sort
Go
Salary
Just
Decent
Actress
My journey has been up and down a little bit. Everything that has to do with success for me has sort of become a shock to me. You work so hard, you work so hard, and it happens; you're like, 'What? Wait, it's happening to me?'
Jessica McDonald
Success
Work
Journey
Me
You
Wait
My Journey
Become
Down
Everything
Bit
Has-Been
Like
Sort
Been
Up
Up And Down
Shock
Happening
Happens
Little
Little Bit
Hard
My natural gravitation is toward the gray and the black and the white and the burgundy. Sort of muted, cool colors.
Jessica Pare
Natural
Black
White
Muted
Colors
Toward
Sort
Burgundy
Cool
Gravitation
Gray
I do feel like the end of 'Mad Men' is a sort of a coming of age.
Jessica Pare
Age
Men
Mad
Mad Men
Feel
Like
Sort
Coming
Coming Of Age
End
As a woman who has some sort of power, you have to have a man that can take that. It's hard to find those men.
Jessica Simpson
You
Man
Woman
Men
Power
Those
Find
Some
Take
Sort
Hard
Who
My personal style is kind of tomboy-boho chic! Sort of funky but simple.
Jessica Szohr
Simple
Style
Kind
Sort
Chic
Personal
Personal Style
Funky
I feel like now is great time for a rom-com because the genre is sort of being opened up to being told by people that look different from each other or who have different orientations.
Jessica Williams
Time
Great
People
Other
Feel
Opened
Like
Look
Great Time
Genre
Sort
Because
Up
Being
Different
Who
Each
Now
In school, I really felt like I didn't fit a type. I think everybody had a hard time putting me in a category. They all sort of realized, 'Hmm, you don't really look like a soprano. You're not really a character belter.'
Jessie Mueller
Time
Character
Me
You
School
Think
Everybody
Type
Had
Putting
Like
Category
Look
Soprano
Sort
Felt
Fit
Realized
Really
Hard
Hard Time
I'm a sloucher, sort of, when nobody's looking.
Jessye Norman
Looking
Nobody
Sort
I wasn't born Austrian; I wasn't born German. My roots are from Africa, and I do not have any reason for not wanting to celebrate that. Every time that I can, I like to kind of mention it, you know, just to keep people sort of knowing exactly what's going on. My French is pretty good, but I'm still African, thank you very much.
Jessye Norman
Time
Good
You
Celebrate
People
Thank You
Every
Every Time
Kind
Exactly
Born
Pretty
Pretty Good
Mention
Like
Know
French
Knowing
Sort
Still
German
Very
Thank
Any
Going
Just
Africa
African
Wanting
Much
Roots
Reason
Keep
Amazingly, I've been sort of an anomaly in the music industry. I feel like I've been able to exist as kind of a throwback artist.
Jewel
Music
Music Industry
Kind
Able
Throwback
Feel
Like
Anomaly
Industry
Sort
Been
Exist
Amazingly
Artist
It's sort of what the Johnny and Devi stories are about, the idea of always being a slave to something.
Jhonen Vasquez
About
Something
Johnny
Idea
Sort
Always
Being
Stories
Slave
For years, I sort of would try to write a story that somehow fit the title. And I don't think it happened for maybe another four years that I actually thought of a story, the plot of a story that corresponded to that phrase.
Jhumpa Lahiri
Try
Thought
Think
Plot
Corresponded
Would
Phrase
Somehow
Write
Sort
Another
Years
Fit
Maybe
Happened
Story
Title
Actually
Four
So much of my writing derives from these questions that I ask myself - things that are utterly beyond my personal set of experiences - and it's my attempt to try to... understand, to sort of break out of my own consciousness, you know, the limitations of my own life.
Jhumpa Lahiri
Life
Myself
You
Writing
Try
Own
Out
My Own
Attempt
Beyond
Know
Sort
Limitations
Understand
Questions
Personal
Experiences
Break
Ask
Much
Derives
Things
Utterly
Consciousness
Set
I'm from Kingston, R.I., sort of on the University of Rhode Island campus - on the margins of that, actually.
Jhumpa Lahiri
Sort
Island
Campus
Rhode
Rhode Island
Actually
Margins
University
My parents came from Calcutta. They arrived in Cambridge, much like the parents in my novel. And I found myself sort of caught between the world of my parents and the world they had left behind and still clung to, and also the world that surrounded me at school and everywhere else, as soon as I set foot out the door.
Jhumpa Lahiri
Myself
Me
World
School
Parents
Else
Everywhere
Out
Foot
Had
Soon
Between
Like
Also
Sort
Caught
Still
Cambridge
Came
Arrived
Left
Surrounded
Behind
Door
Much
Novel
Found
Set
What soccer and coaching gave me was sort of a stage.
Jill Ellis
Me
Stage
Gave
Sort
Soccer
Coaching
There's always been something about Jeffrey Tambor, not only as an actor but as a person, where his ability to embody a sort of very dignified feminine way of being just - this was just very clear to me.
Jill Soloway
Me
Dignified
Way
Embody
Ability
About
Something
Only
Clear
Sort
Always
Feminine
Been
His
Very
Person
Just
Being
Where
Actor
My sister and I created a show called 'The Real Life Brady Bunch,' which was sort of a theatrical sensation that got us attention in L.A. and New York.
Jill Soloway
Life
Real Life
Sister
Attention
New
Sort
Got
Real
Brady
Bunch
York
New York
Sensation
Which
Theatrical
Us
Created
Show
As a youngster, I played in Little League, Pony League, and all sorts of amateur baseball programs growing up.
Jim Evans
Programs
League
Sort
Amateur
Up
Pony
Little
Little League
Youngster
Baseball
Growing
Growing Up
Played
You have to temporarily be the character in order to understand him. It's sort of what they used to call 'shape-shifting.'
Jim Harrison
Character
You
Temporarily
Call
Him
Sort
Understand
Order
Used
At the time of Polaroid - and I did a couple of other commercials just before I stopped doing that stuff - at that point I was at the level where they respect you and your opinion and all that sort of thing.
Jim Henson
Time
You
Respect
Before
Other
Point
Stuff
Polaroid
Couple
Sort
Opinion
Doing
Commercials
Did
Just
Stopped
Where
Your
Thing
Level
I like to weed out the people who aren't going to enjoy me straight off the bat. If you look at all my specials, I do start more extreme and then, as I get into it, sort of at the three-quarter mark, I normally have a bit of pathos. Is pathos the right word?
Jim Jefferies
Me
You
People
Word
Weed
Enjoy
Mark
Bat
Extreme
Bit
Right Word
Out
More
Like
Look
Sort
Off
Normally
Get
Going
Pathos
Straight
Then
Who
Right
Start
On a daily basis there are some huge ones that are, sure, from time to time, but it is helping the reader sort through all this sort of gray stuff out there.
Jim Lehrer
Time
Daily
Out
Some
Through
Stuff
Reader
Sort
Sure
Huge
From Time To Time
Helping
Daily Basis
Gray
Basis
The moon is essentially gray, no color; looks like plaster of Paris or sort of a grayish beach sand.
Jim Lovell
Moon
Beach
Paris
Color
Like
Looks
Sort
Essentially
Sand
Plaster
Gray
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