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As the years passed, and I was nine, 10, 11 years old, it became obvious I was going to start up a business of some sort.
John Caudwell
Business
Old
Nine
Some
Obvious
Sort
Became
Passed
Years
Up
Going
Start
Start-Up
Art is a liaison between some sort of deranged mentality and others who are not going through it.
John Chamberlain
Art
Others
Some
Mentality
Through
Between
Sort
Going
Deranged
Who
I'm very impressed by the imagery in the 'Apologia', which is a kind of sustained poem. It's not just a piece of apologetics of the sort you find in Jesuit literature: 'Why I came over', and so on. It's a tremendously rewarding book but requires perseverance on the part of the reader.
John Cornwell
You
Perseverance
Book
Tremendously
Kind
Find
Poem
Part
Over
Piece
Reader
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Came
Impressed
Very
Just
Rewarding
Sustained
Literature
Which
Requires
Why
Imagery
I think youth will always be connected to the strongest music at the time because... I don't want to use the word 'tribal,' but there was this sort of familial affiliation that people would feel with the music they were listening to.
John Darnielle
Music
Time
Youth
People
Listening
Word
Will
Tribal
Think
Would
Strongest
Feel
Sort
Because
Always
Were
Affiliation
Want
Use
Connected
I think, taking too long to work on a record, you sort of lose some of the feeling, so I write as fast as I can; it's just this manic phase where I'm by myself and or on tour, and I write, and I write.
John Darnielle
Work
Myself
You
Long
Feeling
Lose
Think
Too
Record
Some
Write
Tour
Taking
Sort
Just
Where
Manic
Fast
Phase
I think I am a religious person just by nature. I think I sort of view everything through the lens of some inner undying thing in people that drives them to act as they do or to feel ashamed of not acting in some other way.
John Darnielle
Nature
People
Think
Other
Everything
Way
Religious
Some
Religious Person
Through
Drives
Feel
Sort
Am
Person
Just
Ashamed
Them
Lens
Act
View
Acting
Thing
Inner
As my father started ascending in the business, people around me started to treat me different. Our lives changed. So that anxiety, that sort of resentment, I just funneled it through football.
John David Washington
Me
Business
People
Anxiety
Treat
Father
Changed
Our
Our Lives
Through
Football
Sort
Around
Just
Different
Ascending
Business People
Resentment
Lives
Started
I think I was kind of melancholy as a kid. I spent a lot of time inside my own head, a lot of time sort of staring into space wondering the hell was going on.
John Edgar Wideman
Time
Space
Own
Hell
Think
Melancholy
Spent
Kid
Kind
Inside
My Own
Head
Sort
Lot
Wondering
Going
Staring
I don't understand why black people have been so quiescent, so passive over the hundreds of years of American history. Why hasn't there been more violence, more armed struggle? I know answers to some of that, but it seems to me it's an issue of faith, an abiding faith in some sort of great beyond, or great spirit, or even in the American dream.
John Edgar Wideman
Faith
Great
Me
History
Struggle
People
Black
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Years
Dream
Abide
Some
Spirit
Seems
More
Great Spirit
Over
Armed
Beyond
Know
Sort
Understand
Answers
Issue
Passive
Been
Years
American
American Dream
American History
Even
Why
Violence
The title of my book is 'American Histories,' plural. And as far as I'm concerned, my reading of history is it is a sort of nightmare. It is a sort of nightmare, and I'm trying to wake up from it. And as any nightmare, it's full of much that is unspeakable.
John Edgar Wideman
History
Book
Wake Up
Reading
Unspeakable
Concerned
Sort
Wake
Up
Histories
Trying
American
Any
As Far As
Title
Far
Much
Full
Nightmare
President Obama is more and more beginning to look like the hypocrite-in-chief when it comes to the war on terrorism. All sorts of things that he criticized the president for, he's actually continued and even extended. This drone attack program, he's got it at the highest level ever.
John Fleming
War
Terrorism
Beginning
President
President Obama
Obama
Criticized
More
More And More
Attack
Highest
He
Highest Level
Like
Look
Sort
Got
Continue
Even
Ever
Actually
Extended
Level
Things
Program
Any guitar solo should reflect the music that it's soloing over and not just be existing in its own sort of little world.
John Frusciante
Music
World
Guitar
Reflect
Own
Just Be
Solo
Soloing
Over
Sort
Existing
Any
Just
Little
Should
It's possible for an editor to break down a dream, if you like, into its components and being able to shoot the wide shots in sunshine, when the weather was at its best and you know, we would get sort of almost a 3D effect sometimes if you chose the right time of day to shoot the thing.
John Glen
Time
Best
Day
You
Sunshine
Sometimes
Weather
Down
Right Time
Possible
Dream
Would
Components
Able
Almost
Like
Know
Sort
Editor
Effect
Get
Shoot
Being
Break
Shots
Chose
Right
Thing
Wide
'Ernest Borgnine' is sort of my version of Woody Allen's 'Purple Rose Of Cairo' in that it's about the occasional difficulty of coming to terms with the cold hard facts and the temptation to escape into another world - like movies, for example. I'm a pro at escaping.
John Grant
World
Example
Rose
Difficulty
Cold
About
Temptation
Allen
Purple
Facts
Like
For Example
Terms
Occasional
Sort
Another
Coming
Version
Escape
Escaping
Pro
Woody
Movies
Hard
I always wondered if there was a purpose to the universe, if there was a plan, if there was some sort of organizing factor, hopefully that I played a role in.
John Green
Universe
Hopefully
Some
Purpose
Factor
Sort
Always
Wondered
Role
Plan
Organizing
Played
I'm a great believer in the novelist being 'on the scene,' reporting, traveling, meeting all sorts of people.
John Gregory Dunne
Great
People
Great Believer
Meeting
Scene
Sort
Reporting
Being
Novelist
Traveling
Believer
A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of a carcass dressed and hung up in a butcher's stall passes as food.
John Harvey Kellogg
Food
Sheep
Lying
Hung
Recognized
Dressed
Dead
Sort
Passes
Cow
Up
Pasture
Same
Stall
Butcher
I didn't make a 147 until few years ago - I just wasn't the sort of player who went for them. But it's like buses I suppose, one comes along and then a few more follow.
John Higgins
Few
Follow
More
Along
Suppose
Like
Until
Make
Sort
Years
Years Ago
Just
Buses
Them
Then
Who
Player
Everyone has a family, even if they're at war or fallen apart. It's the closest initial bond, and there's a sort of primal element to that. Your primary relationships are formed out of family.
John Hillcoat
War
Family
Relationships
Everyone
Out
Primal
Primary
Sort
Fallen
Closest
Formed
Apart
Your
Initial
Even
Element
Bond
I love those sorts of stories where you actually see the consequences of what violence does physically to people as well as psychologically.
John Hillcoat
Love
You
People
Consequences
Those
See
Physically
Well
Sort
Does
Where
Stories
Psychologically
Actually
Violence
My early prose style - this is so embarrassing - was sort of a suburban, Presbyterian knockoff of Woody Allen.
John Hughes
Style
Embarrassing
Allen
Prose
Sort
Woody
Woody Allen
Suburban
Presbyterian
Early
My father was a civil servant, fairly sort of middle ranking, low to middle ranking. He worked almost entirely in what was then called Administrative Labour, dealing with employment and unemployment issues.
John Hume
Father
Ranking
Administrative
Civil
Civil Servant
Entirely
He
Almost
Employment
Fairly
Sort
Dealing
Issues
Unemployment
Labour
Middle
Low
Then
Worked
Servant
A lot of times when I'm confident and relaxed on the court, I'm going to be a pretty tough out. But when I'm not so confident and not so relaxed, I tense up and my balls fall short and everything. It just sort of unravels.
John Isner
Tough
Fall
Everything
Relaxed
Out
Pretty
Tense
Sort
Court
Balls
Lot
Up
Times
Going
Confident
Short
Just
My confidence sort of comes and goes very quickly.
John Isner
Confidence
Sort
Very
Quickly
Goes
That's why I enjoy Davis Cup, and I really enjoyed college tennis. It's very special. You want to go out there and compete your hardest, because you don't want to let anyone down. You want to absolutely give it your all for your team. And that's sort of the mentality I've taken to pro tennis.
John Isner
You
College
Down
Enjoy
Out
Give
Mentality
Absolutely
Davis
Davis Cup
Tennis
Taken
Sort
Because
Go
Cup
Very
Pro
Want
Anyone
Really
Your
Team
Special
Why
Hardest
Enjoyed
Compete
There must be a dozen films now based on Philip K. Dick novels or stories, far more than any other published science fiction writer. He's sort of become the go-to guy for weird science fiction notions.
John Kessel
Science
Become
Films
Other
Philip
Must
Guy
More
Writer
He
Weird
Sort
Science Fiction
Than
Any
Fiction
Fiction Writer
Stories
Far
Notions
Novels
Now
Based
Published
Dozen
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