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If you can't hear language, you won't be able to understand language and experience normal development. Every minute spent without hearing is a minute a child is not getting back.
Kassie DePaiva
You
Experience
Language
Every
Back
Spent
Able
Minute
Development
Without
Understand
Hear
Hearing
Normal
Child
Getting
I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.
Kate Atkinson
Spent
Recognize
See
Postmodern
Doctorate
Doing
Years
American
Literature
American Literature
Four
People ask what I really did in the three years between 'The Dreaming' and 'Hounds of Love.' I spent it with my family, living a normal home life.
Kate Bush
Life
Love
Home
Family
People
Three
Living
Spent
Dreaming
Between
Hound
Years
Normal
Did
Ask
Really
Home Life
In 1990, when I had just arrived in New York City as a wet-behind-the-ears 20-something girl from Arizona, I spent a year or more working as the personal secretary and secret ghostwriter to an American-born countess in her apartment on the Upper East Side.
Kate Christensen
Girl
Year
Side
Secret
Secretary
Spent
East
East Side
City
More
Had
Arizona
New
Arrived
Personal
York
Upper
Just
New York
New York City
Apartment
Working
Her
I regretted the solitary nature of the writer's life - other people, normal working people, spent their days with co-workers, rode the subway home with a crowd, walked through thronged streets. I worked at home, all by myself.
Kate Christensen
Life
Myself
Home
Nature
People
Other
Spent
Solitary
Crowd
Through
Writer
Days
Normal
Rode
Walked
Subway
Worked
Co-Workers
Regretted
Working
Working People
Streets
I was attacked by a dog when I was a toddler, and my injuries were so bad, I spent quite a bit of my childhood in and out of hospital. Books were absolutely my salvation during those years.
Kate Forsyth
Dog
Books
Spent
Bit
Those
Out
Bad
Attacked
Absolutely
Hospital
Were
Years
Salvation
Quite
Quite A Bit
Childhood
Toddler
Injuries
Researchers have found very little difference between men and women in terms of the amount of time spent gossiping.
Kate Fox
Time
Women
Men
Men And Women
Spent
Between
Terms
Very
Difference
Little
Researchers
Found
Amount
The first record I spent five years writing and it was an amalgamation of all the things that happened in my life from the time I was fifteen to the time I was twenty.
Kate Voegele
Life
Time
Writing
My Life
First
Spent
Record
Years
Five
Happened
Fifteen
Twenty
Things
Sure, men like a challenge - but so do women. And nobody likes to be challenged all the time. I know plenty of long-standing happy couples who slept together right away, spent hours yakking on the phone, split checks down the middle, and lived together for years before the wedding.
Katha Pollitt
Time
Together
Happy
Women
Phone
Challenge
Men
Before
Down
Slept
Spent
Plenty
Wedding
Split
Long-Standing
Nobody
Checks
Like
Hours
Know
Likes
Couples
Sure
Years
Middle
Who
Lived
Challenged
Away
Right
Right Away
As an actress, weekends can be spent working, but my husband, Ryan, works regular hours as an analytics manager for L'Oreal.
Katherine Kelly
Husband
Spent
Weekends
Hours
Manager
Regular
Working
Works
Actress
I was always the tallest girl in my class, and it made me have really bad posture because I wanted to seem shorter than I really was. It really reflected how I felt about myself. I spent most of my youth in school feeling really insecure about the way I looked because I was different.
Katherine Webb
Myself
Me
Class
Youth
School
Made
Girl
Feeling
Way
Spent
Insecure
Bad
About
Seem
Posture
Most
Looked
Because
Felt
Tallest
Always
How
Reflected
Than
Different
Wanted
Really
I've spent my career fighting the worst practices of insurance companies.
Kathleen Sebelius
Fighting
Spent
Worst
Practices
Insurance
Insurance Companies
Companies
Career
It begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It's obscene.
Kathleen Turner
Education
Health
Day
Age
People
Money
Spent
Obscene
Day And Age
Absurd
Dollars
Begins
So Much Money
Ends
Much
Film
Million
Million Dollars
Need
For me, I spent months on job boards in 2010 and was frustrated by the experience. It's antiquated and clunky, and there was nothing about a particular job posting that helped me favor one company over another. You literally get a list of 5,000 jobs that look the same.
Kathryn Minshew
Me
You
Experience
Job
Nothing
Months
Spent
Favor
Jobs
Posting
About
Over
Particular
Look
Another
Antiquated
Get
Same
List
Literally
Frustrated
Boards
Helped
Company
Working on my first novel, 'Groundswell' - about a woman recovering from a bad breakup who falls in love with surfing - I spent a month south of the border. And when I wasn't writing or surfing, I was eating. A lot.
Katie Lee
Love
Woman
Writing
First
Month
Spent
Bad
Border
Eating
About
Recovering
Surfing
Falls
South
Lot
Breakup
Working
Who
Novel
I like to spend time with my family. The majority of my time is spent in London, but I do like to escape and spend time with them in my hometown of Brighton on the south coast.
Katie Price
Time
Family
Spend
Spent
London
My Time
Like
Majority
South
Escape
Them
Coast
Hometown
Brighton
We lived in a council flat, and I spent most of my time on estates. My mum was very strict. I used to hate it.
Kaya Scodelario
Time
Hate
Strict
Spent
My Time
Council
Most
Very
Estates
Flat
Used
Lived
Mum
I spent ages figuring out things like viewpoint, how you tell the story, and so on.
Kazuo Ishiguro
You
Spent
Out
Tell
Like
How
Story
Ages
Viewpoint
Figuring
Things
Even though I spent the first five years of my life in Nagasaki, going to Japan can be really difficult. Even if they know I've been brought up in the West, they still expect me to understand all the subtleties of their culture, and if I get it wrong, it matters much more than if a British person gets it wrong. I find it intimidating.
Kazuo Ishiguro
Life
Me
Culture
My Life
First
Matters
Difficult
Intimidating
Spent
Though
Find
Brought
More
Wrong
Nagasaki
Know
Understand
Still
Been
West
Years
Up
Five
Expect
Than
Person
Get
Gets
Going
Subtleties
Japan
Much
Really
Even
British
I was the first to win a major with a belly putter, and I've spent hours practicing that way, so I hope they don't ban anchoring.
Keegan Bradley
Hope
Win
First
Way
Spent
Anchoring
Putter
Major
Hours
Practicing
Ban
Belly
In fact, I was one of the few trusted people that Lucy allowed to play with their kids. I spent time at their summer home, rode horses at their ranch, and swam at their beach house. I even spent a Christmas with them at Palm Springs one year.
Keith Thibodeaux
Christmas
Time
Home
People
Year
Few
Ranch
Summer
Spent
Kids
Beach
Fact
Horses
Allowed
House
Springs
Rode
Trusted
In Fact
Them
Even
Lucy
Play
Palm
Spent way too many years hating myself, thinking I was less valuable because I was different... which is just untrue.
Keiynan Lonsdale
Myself
Valuable
Thinking
Too
Way
Spent
Hating
Untrue
Because
Years
Just
Different
Which
Less
Many
I think high school's very difficult. You're figuring out your own power and your effect on other people. You look back and see how you spent so much energy on figuring out things with your parents or your peers.
Kelly Rutherford
You
People
School
Parents
Power
Own
Energy
Difficult
Think
Other
Back
Peers
Spent
Out
High
See
Look
How
Effect
Very
So Much Energy
Much
Your
Figuring
Things
I spent the 1960s and 1970s seeking myself - the working-class tradition of self-education.
Ken Livingstone
Myself
Spent
Seeking
Self-Education
Tradition
Working-Class
My family has spent 400 years farming on the banks of the Rio Grande. We know the value of hard work, love of the community, love for water and land.
Ken Salazar
Work
Love
Hard Work
Family
Water
Value
Community
Spent
Rio
Know
Years
Banks
Land
Hard
Farming
In high school, despite my involvement on four different sports teams, I threw my duties of being a jock out the window and spent my spare time in wrestling training or on the PS2.
Kenny Omega
Time
Sports
Training
School
Despite
Spent
Out
High
Jock
High School
Window
Threw
Wrestling
Involvement
Duties
Being
Different
Spare
Spare Time
Teams
Four
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