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I've dropped myself into straightforward character pieces in order to explore that form and reap its values. But you are sort of restricted visually when your first requirement is to tell a fairly straightforward story.
Brian De Palma
Myself
Character
You
Values
First
Reap
Tell
Restricted
Dropped
Pieces
Fairly
Sort
Order
Form
Story
Straightforward
Requirement
Explore
Your
Doo-wop is special music to me because it's so straightforward and melody-driven and captures emotions.
Bruno Mars
Music
Me
Emotions
Because
Straightforward
Special
Captures
It's like night and day... to do business, in Europe, there is no bull, they are pretty straightforward.
Caprice Bourret
Day
Business
Pretty
Like
Bull
Straightforward
Europe
Night
If I'm going to be straightforward, like I always try to be, I know guys are going to come back at me sometimes.
Charles Barkley
Me
Sometimes
Try
Back
Guys
Come
Like
Know
Always
Going
Straightforward
For most of Wall Street's history, stock trading was fairly straightforward: buyers and sellers gathered on exchange floors and dickered until they struck a deal.
Charles Duhigg
History
Struck
Exchange
Most
Until
Fairly
Deal
Trading
Sellers
Stock
Wall
Straightforward
Floors
Street
Buyers
Gathered
The stories that engaged me as a kid were all science fiction. Later, it turned out that I didn't have the language to talk about what was bothering me in a way that was straightforward.
Chris Adrian
Me
Science
Language
Later
Way
Kid
Out
About
Bothering
Talk
Science Fiction
Were
Fiction
Stories
Straightforward
Turned
Engaged
I like trying to keep as honest and straightforward of a point of view in our kitchen as possible.
Christina Tosi
Our
Possible
Kitchen
Point
Point Of View
Like
Trying
Straightforward
View
Keep
Honest
Sometimes it's great when, you know, you're sitting down to watch a straightforward story, and you know how it's going to go, and you know how it's going to end. That's a fairy tale.
Clare-Hope Ashitey
Great
You
Sometimes
Down
Tale
Know
Fairy
Fairy Tale
How
Go
End
Sitting
Going
Story
Straightforward
Watch
Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should.
Clifford Geertz
Most
Doing
Straightforward
Should
I'm pretty straightforward as a performer, but I do have a bit of a diva in me.
Corin Tucker
Me
Bit
Pretty
Diva
Performer
Straightforward
I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a 'career', but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer.
Cynthia Ozick
Animal
Unmistakable
Born
Writer
Obvious
Wanted
Straightforward
Use
Career
My proposal to re-establish diplomatic relations - not necessarily friendly relations, but diplomatic relations - is a sensible, simple, and straightforward approach that will finally get us off dead center.
Cyrus Vance
Simple
Will
Relations
Approach
Finally
Diplomatic
Diplomatic Relations
Proposal
Dead
Off
Friendly
Get
Center
Sensible
Straightforward
Us
Necessarily
We don't come up with product names like 'Cookie Sugar a la Mode.' We made a commitment that our brand is straightforward.
Daniel Lubetzky
Commitment
Made
Sugar
Our
Come
Like
Names
La
Up
Brand
Mode
Straightforward
Product
Cookie
Love is agony, isn't it? I've been involved with someone for some time now, but it's all so complicated. It's never straightforward is it? You meet someone, you fall in love, it's the most wonderful thing ever but... There's always something that's not quite right about love, isn't there?
Daphne Guinness
Love
Time
You
Love Is
Wonderful
Complicated
Fall
Meet
Some
About
Someone
Something
Never
Most
Involved
Always
Been
Wonderful Thing
Quite
Straightforward
Agony
Now
Ever
Right
Thing
Reality isn't straightforward or easily accessible.
David Shields
Reality
Easily
Accessible
Straightforward
Straightforward fiction functions only as more Bubble Wrap, nostalgia, retreat.
David Shields
Wrap
More
Only
Bubble
Retreat
Fiction
Nostalgia
Straightforward
Functions
I react to stress badly. I handle it better these days. But I'm a very straightforward person.
Dawn Steel
Better
Stress
Badly
Days
React
Very
Handle
Person
Straightforward
A double bind is far worse than a straightforward damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't dilemma. It requires you to obey two mutually exclusive commands: Anything you do to fulfill one violates the other.
Deborah Tannen
You
Obey
Other
Dilemma
Worse
Mutually
Mutually Exclusive
Exclusive
Commands
Than
Anything
Double
Far
Straightforward
Fulfill
Requires
Bind
Violates
Two
I always want to bring emotion across in a straightforward way. I don't want to get histrionic when I'm singing. For me that's just not interesting; it goes too far down one road.
Dido Armstrong
Me
Singing
Down
Too
Way
Emotion
Road
Always
Get
Goes
Just
Want
Interesting
Far
Straightforward
Across
Bring
ISIS may seem un-Islamic to President Obama, but to anybody who has read Islam's core texts, it might appear to be a fairly straightforward attempt to create a state based on Mohammed's instructions as laid down in the Koran, in hadith, and in Mohammed's own example.
Douglas Murray
Example
Islam
Own
Down
President
State
President Obama
Obama
Seem
Attempt
Instructions
Fairly
Read
Koran
Texts
May
Anybody
Laid
Might
Straightforward
Create
Mohammed
Who
Appear
Based
Core
I'm attracted to playing people who aren't necessarily straightforward.
Felicity Jones
People
Attracted
Straightforward
Who
Necessarily
Playing
I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straightforward.
Felicity Jones
Death
You
World
Think
Slightly
Something
Open
Divorce
Like
Because
Does
Up
Happens
Straightforward
Growing
Growing Up
Things
In America, people are just so straightforward when they dislike things.
Frances Mayes
People
America
Just
Dislike
Straightforward
Things
When I first started editing a 'Year's Best' volume in the '70s, the job was pretty straightforward - there were three or four monthly magazines to read and a few original anthologies from trade publishers every year.
Gardner Dozois
Best
Editing
Job
Three
First
Year
Few
Every
Monthly
Magazines
Pretty
Volume
Read
Trade
Were
Straightforward
Original
Publishers
Four
Started
I think we've always got to have a mind of the feeling for the supporters about the importance of each match. We've got to be careful not to make tournaments too big and then make qualifying too straightforward.
Gareth Southgate
Mind
Feeling
Big
Think
Too
Be Careful
About
Tournaments
Supporters
Importance
Qualifying
Make
Match
Always
Got
Straightforward
Then
Each
Careful
Connection between life and radioactive nuclei is straightforward. No life without tectonic activity, without volcanic activity. And we know very well that geothermal energy is mostly produced by decay of uranium, thorium, and potassium.
Garik Israelian
Life
Energy
No Life
Volcanic
Between
Know
Well
Mostly
Without
Very
Decay
Uranium
Straightforward
Produced
Connection
Radioactive
Activity
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