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I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.
Sam Donaldson
Success
Work
Failure
People
Work Hard
Top
Some
Had
Takes
Toward
Over
Know
Most
Got
Go
Line
Years
Get
Any
Just
Little
Mean
Straight
Straight Line
Hard
Who
Many
Start
Here
Number
It's mystifying to me why the House leadership will not allow a straight up-or-down vote on a pay raise. I vote against every pay raise because taxpayers deserve better.
Sam Graves
Leadership
Me
Vote
Better
Will
Pay
Every
Allow
House
Because
Against
Straight
Taxpayers
Pay Raise
Deserve
Why
Raise
A long iron rod rocketed straight through the very forefront of Phineas Gage's brain. It's kind of an unusual part of the brain: you can suffer pretty severe injuries to it and often walk away from the injury. It's not a part of the brain that's necessarily vital for your biological self. But it is very important for personality.
Sam Kean
You
Personality
Walk
Long
Important
Severe
Kind
Vital
Pretty
Through
Self
Part
Unusual
Forefront
Brain
Rod
Very
Iron
Often
Straight
Your
Suffer
Injuries
Away
Injury
Necessarily
Biological
Without a functioning hippocampus, names, dates, and other information falls straight through the mind like a sieve.
Sam Kean
Mind
Other
Sieve
Dates
Through
Like
Names
Without
Falls
Information
Straight
A good actor always sets you straight. If you've written a false moment and thought it was probably pretty great, the actor's gonna show you when he gets to that moment. They're the great test of the validity of the material.
Sam Shepard
Good
Great
You
Thought
Sets
Validity
Pretty
He
Written
Always
Material
Test
False
Gets
Straight
Gonna
Good Actor
Show
Moment
Actor
I've learned a lot over the years, but I am an honest person, and when I'm not happy, I can't fake a smile. If there is a problem, you will know straight away because you will see it on my face.
Samir Nasri
Smile
You
Happy
Problem
Will
Face
Honest Person
See
Over
Know
Learned
Because
Fake
Am
Years
Lot
Person
Straight
Away
Honest
I was working straight for nine months and I'm exhausted. I'm ready to relax for a little while and read. I don't want to work for work sake; I have to be excited about it.
Sanaa Lathan
Work
Relax
Exhausted
Nine
Nine Months
Months
About
Excited
Read
Ready
Sake
Want
While
Little
Straight
Working
Little While
I made straight A's and never got into any trouble, and I still impose those standards on myself. So writing is my chance to escape and become the sleaziest, scummiest role.
Sandra Brown
Myself
Writing
Made
Trouble
Become
Those
Never
Got
Still
Impose
Escape
Role
Any
Straight
Standards
Chance
If you screw up five films straight, then you're done. It's a business, the producer invests money and you need to make sure his money is recovered and in the process you give out the best film.
Saqib Saleem
Best
You
Business
Money
Films
Out
Give
Recovered
Make
Sure
His
Up
Five
Done
Screw
Process
Straight
Then
Producer
Film
Need
Orange Is the New Black' is the womanliest TV show that has ever existed. It doesn't merely pass the Bechdel test, it gets all As and goes straight to Oxbridge, even though it's only three years old.
Sara Pascoe
Old
Black
Three
Though
TV
TV Show
Only
Merely
New
Pass
Test
Years
Existed
Goes
Orange
Gets
Straight
Show
Even
Ever
The rule with my mom was that the only way that I could be an actress when I was young was that I continued to go to public school and get straight A's in all my classes.
Sara Paxton
Mom
School
Young
Rule
Way
Classes
Only
Could
Go
Continue
Get
Public
Straight
Public School
Actress
There is a large group that's not represented on television - the group that falls somewhere in the middle of straight and gay. That group is looked down on, because people say, 'You can't be in-between. You have to pick one or the other.'
Sara Ramirez
Gay
You
People
Somewhere
Down
Group
Other
Say
Television
People Say
Pick
Looked
Because
Falls
Middle
In-Between
Straight
Large
Large Group
Because Buffy really has become the straight man, every once in a while it's nice to be the one that tells the joke and it's nice to be the one that is the joke and it's nice to do something that's a little bit different.
Sarah Michelle Gellar
Man
Joke
Become
Nice
Every
Once
Bit
Tells
Something
Buffy
Because
Different
While
Little
Little Bit
Straight
Straight Man
Really
I'm really tall, and I used slouch and think it was really uncool to stand up straight - now I wish I hadn't been quite so dumb!
Sarah Parish
Wish
Think
Tall
Been
Dumb
Up
Quite
Straight
Really
Stand
Stand Up
Used
Now
I think more than comedy, probably more than straight drama, I like horror. And horror I think I'm particularly good at. It's a mistake a lot of directors make, especially young directors. They always want to make the kind of movies that they most admire and aren't necessarily sensitive to what they have the best skill set for.
Scott Derrickson
Best
Good
Mistake
Comedy
Young
Think
Drama
Kind
Admire
Horror
More
Directors
Like
Most
Particularly
Make
Always
Lot
Than
Want
Sensitive
Movies
Straight
Skill
Necessarily
Set
I am not a great sleeper. I don't think I have ever slept 8 hours straight in the last 20 years.
Scott Kelly
Great
Think
Sleeper
Slept
Hours
Am
Years
Straight
Ever
Last
Americans know as much about Canada as straight people do about gays. Americans arrive at the border with skis in July, and straight people think that being gay is just a phase. A very long phase.
Scott Thompson
Gay
People
Long
Think
Gays
Border
About
Know
Arrive
July
Very
Canada
American
Just
Being
Straight
Straight People
Ski
Much
Phase
It's kind of like trying to make straight lines from curves, but involving shapes that sort of dictate what the curves are, if you like, and the difference between two separate pieces creates a third transitional piece if you like.
Sean Booth
You
Kind
Shapes
Between
Like
Piece
Pieces
Involving
Make
Sort
Lines
Dictate
Trying
Difference
Curves
Straight
Transitional
Creates
Separate
Two
Third
I did, like, 30 or 40 commercials before 'Will & Grace' where I was the straight husband. I had two spots on the Super Bowl in 1998 where I was the straight dude.
Sean Hayes
Grace
Will
Husband
Before
Super
Super Bowl
Had
Like
Bowl
Spots
Dude
Commercials
Did
Where
Straight
Two
The combat environment has the effect of flattening out civilian identities. If you're young or old, or a graduate from Harvard or the son of a farmer from Alabama, or if you're gay or straight or good-looking or ugly: none of those things matters much in combat, as long as you can conform to the group expectations.
Sebastian Junger
Gay
You
Son
Ugly
Old
Long
Matters
Young
Group
Those
Harvard
Out
Civilian
Environment
Combat
Good-Looking
Identities
None
Effect
Expectations
Graduate
Conform
Straight
Much
Farmer
Alabama
Things
Taking money in taxes and paying it straight back in subsidies is wrong.
Sebastian Kurz
Money
Back
Wrong
Taking
Subsidies
Straight
Taxes
Paying
If you could drive straight down, into a tunnel bored through the crust of the planet, you'd hit this molten mess in about an hour. It's called the asthenosphere - a sluggish sea, several hundred miles thick, on which floats the Earth's cool epidermis - the so-called tectonic plates.
Seth Shostak
You
Drive
Down
Hundred
Earth
Several
Bored
Sluggish
About
About An Hour
Could
Through
Crust
Hour
Mess
Hit
So-Called
Tunnel
Which
Straight
Planet
Miles
Sea
Cool
Plates
Floats
Thick
I would never be about waking up early and do morning radio and TV back to back had I not been in the military, where they are throwing a garbage can in the middle of my squad bed at 5 o'clock in the morning for four years straight.
Shaggy
Morning
Military
Garbage
Back
TV
Would
About
Throwing
Never
Had
Bed
Been
Years
Squad
Up
Waking
Waking Up
Middle
Where
Straight
Radio
Four
Early
We are Christian and Jewish and Muslim and Hindu and none of the above. We are gay and straight. We are black, brown, white, and innumerable combinations. We are young and old, female and male, with and without disabilities, urban and rural, and liberal and conservative. Every one of us is an equal American.
Sheldon Whitehouse
Gay
Conservative
Old
Black
Young
White
Christian
Every
Liberal
Muslim
Rural
Brown
Above
Disabilities
Combinations
Equal
Hindu
Without
Female
None
Male
American
Urban
Straight
Us
Jewish
In school the kids thought I was freaky because I made straight A's and daydreamed a lot.
Shelley Duvall
School
Thought
Made
Kids
Freaky
Because
Lot
Straight
For the second straight year, craft beer is the fastest growing segment of the U.S. alcoholic beverage industry. In 2005, craft beer experienced a 9 percent increase in volume, nearly triple that of the growth experienced in the wine and spirits industry.
Sherwood Boehlert
Beer
Wine
Year
Increase
Triple
Spirits
Percent
Percent Increase
Segment
Volume
Beverage
Industry
Craft
Experienced
Straight
Growing
Nearly
Growth
Fastest
Second
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