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I have really good female friends. I've never bought the whole men-and-women-can't-be-friends thing. I think that's sort of nonsense.
Josh Radnor
Good
Think
Never
Bought
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Female
Nonsense
Friends
Really
Whole
Thing
We just happened to come along at time where there hadn't been a new young adult drama that also could appeal to adults as well in quite some time. We sort of found a little bit of a niche.
Josh Schwartz
Time
Young
Drama
Bit
Some
Could
Adult
New
Along
Come
Also
Well
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Been
Quite
Just
Young Adult
Quite Some Time
Where
Happened
Little
Little Bit
Appeal
Found
Niche
I write arrangements. I'm sort of a wannabe composer.
Joshua Bell
Composer
Write
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Arrangements
I always wanted to be an actor. It sort of prevented that whole - I never had any of that kind of angsty period old and doing musicals at camp and community theater and plays at school; it was just always what I most enjoyed and always what I intended to pursue.
Joshua Malina
School
Old
Community
Musicals
Kind
Pursue
Never
Had
Most
Period
Sort
Always
Doing
Camp
Intended
Any
Just
Wanted
Theater
Whole
Actor
Enjoyed
Plays
Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless.
Josiah Gilbert Holland
Progress
Pride
Nothing
Way
Foolish
Sort
Opinion
While
Stands
I've sort of mellowed out. It used to be: I want to be a star, do big movies. Now, being married, it's like the reasons I wanted to do that seem the wrong reasons. I want to have kids.
Josie Bissett
Big
Kids
Out
Married
Seem
Wrong
Wrong Reasons
Like
Sort
Being
Want
Wanted
Movies
Used
Reasons
Star
Now
I'm 19, I'm a girl, I'm very young, I like all sorts of different things, I like all sorts of different styles of music, I like all sorts of different styles of clothes, I like all sorts of different colors of hair.
Joss Stone
Music
Girl
Hair
Young
Clothes
Colors
Like
Sort
Styles
Very
Different
Different Colors
Different Styles
Different Things
Things
My mom is a teacher, my dad was a writer for television, his dad was a writer for television, and combining those two has been sort of the goal of my life.
Joss Whedon
Life
Teacher
Mom
My Life
Those
Television
Has-Been
Writer
Combining
Sort
Been
His
Goal
Dad
Two
I am a member of the Muskogee people. I'm a poet, a musician, a dreamer of sorts, a questioner. Like everyone else, I'm looking for answers of some sort or the other.
Joy Harjo
People
Poet
Looking
Other
Else
Everyone
Everyone Else
Musician
Member
Dreamer
Some
Like
Sort
Am
Answers
I made all sorts of things: drawings, sculptures - I was doing origami before I even knew the word. I was constantly creating.
Joy Mangano
Word
Made
Before
Drawings
Constantly
Knew
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Doing
Creating
Sculptures
Even
Things
I compose most of my tweets with care, as if they were aphorisms - they are not usually dashed-off. Sometimes I'm surprised by the high, poetic quality of Twitter - it lends itself to a surreal sort of self-expression.
Joyce Carol Oates
Quality
Sometimes
Care
Twitter
High
Compose
Poetic
Most
Self-Expression
Sort
Were
Surprised
Surreal
Itself
Lends
Aphorism
Tweets
Henry James's later works would have been better had he resisted that curious sort of self-indulgence, dictating to a secretary. The roaming garrulousness of ordinary speech is usually corrected when it's transcribed into written prose.
Joyce Carol Oates
Better
Later
Secretary
Corrected
Would
Had
He
Written
Prose
Roaming
Sort
Been
Curious
James
Ordinary
Works
Henry
Resisted
Speech
Often in gothic novels there's a large house, an estate, and it's symbolic of that culture. Usually it's sort of moldering or rotted or something, and sometimes it's a whole community.
Joyce Carol Oates
Culture
Sometimes
Community
Something
House
Sort
Gothic
Often
Estate
Large
Whole
Novels
Symbolic
I don't accept the argument of people like David Horowitz that the government should impose some sort of predetermined political balance on academic research.
Juan Cole
Government
Balance
People
Political
Argument
Research
Some
David
Like
Academic
Sort
Accept
Impose
Predetermined
Should
I think all philanthropy invests in product innovation, whether in a vaccine or a new kind of product of one sort or another, and I think we'll all continue to do that.
Judith Rodin
Innovation
Think
Philanthropy
Kind
New
Sort
Another
New Kind
Continue
Whether
Product
Vaccine
When not deeply engaged in creative activities, or numbed out by the TV, I felt empty. My heart hurt. I often felt hollow or as if I were some sort of wispy ghost, barely existing.
Judith Wright
Creative
Heart
Hurt
Ghost
Out
TV
Some
Sort
Empty
Felt
Were
Existing
Often
Hollow
Barely
Engaged
Activities
Deeply
When you see another tall woman on the street, you nod, sort of like Orthodox Jews.
Judy Gold
You
Woman
Jews
See
Nod
Like
Sort
Another
Tall
Street
Orthodox
I don't like to rule by committee. I like sort of an autocratic way of dealing with things.
Judy Sheindlin
Rule
Way
Like
Sort
Dealing
Committee
Autocratic
Things
I'm interested in the person I photograph. The world is so beautiful as it is; there's so much going on, which is sort of interesting. It's just so crazy, so why do I have to put some retouching on it? It's just pointless to me.
Juergen Teller
Beautiful
Me
Crazy
World
Photograph
Some
Pointless
Put
Sort
Person
Going
Just
Which
Interested
Interesting
Much
Why
When you're a kid, what you learn in school about being German has a sort of heaviness about it, and you have a sort of guilt with you.
Juergen Teller
You
School
Guilt
Kid
About
Learn
Sort
German
Being
If I claim I'm the opposite of my characters, then it'll just sound awful. But I tend to write the sort of things I'd never say because I'm not a very forceful person.
Julia Davis
Say
Claim
Characters
Tend
Write
Never
Forceful
Sort
Because
Sound
Opposite
Very
Person
Just
Then
Awful
Things
I just find it funny and terrible: someone being very rude and overbearing over somebody who doesn't know how to deal with it. Maybe it's because I've experienced that sort of thing and I don't know how to say, 'You can't do that. You can't say that to me.'
Julia Davis
Funny
Me
You
Rude
Somebody
Say
Find
Someone
Over
Know
Terrible
Sort
Because
Deal
How
Very
Maybe
Just
Being
Experienced
Who
Thing
You have to add some sort of dimension to each of your characters because everyone has their own layers.
Julia Garner
You
Own
Add
Everyone
Dimension
Characters
Some
Layers
Sort
Because
Your
Each
I think there's a fine line, and once you cross it, you are in a dangerous territory of overhyping your company, your service, and your product and sort of under-delivering. But I think we probably could have been a little more overtly confident in the early days.
Julia Hartz
Service
You
Dangerous
Think
Once
Fine
Fine Line
Cross
More
Could
Days
Sort
Territory
Line
Been
Confident
Little
Product
Your
Company
Early
Early Days
After playing Saffy in 'Ab Fab', I needed to take time out from acting to see if I really wanted to do it. I had been doing it for a very long time and I was being sent the same sort of scripts again and again.
Julia Sawalha
Time
Long
Long Time
Out
See
Take
Had
Sort
Doing
Been
Very
Very Long Time
Same
Being
Wanted
After
Again
Scripts
Sent
Really
Acting
Playing
Needed
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