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Well, what happened is that I had been the subject of vicious attacks by Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh.
Robert Scheer
Rush
Rush Limbaugh
Attacks
Had
Well
Been
Subject
Happened
Vicious
Bill
I think one of the major things a director has to do is to know his subject matter, the subject matter of his script, know the truth and the reality of it. That's very important.
Robert Wise
Truth
Director
Reality
Matter
Important
Think
Major
Know
His
Subject
Subject Matter
Very
Script
Things
I know there are limits to what a coach can accomplish in improving speechmaking unless the subject is a diligent student of himself.
Roger Ailes
Unless
Diligent
Student
Know
Himself
Limits
Subject
Accomplish
Improving
Coach
Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film.
Roger Ebert
Class
Invisible
Subject
America
Often
Movies
Film
'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter' is without a doubt the best film we are ever likely to see on the subject - unless there is a sequel, which is unlikely, because at the end, the Lincolns are on their way to the theater.
Roger Ebert
Best
Doubt
Unless
Unlikely
Way
Hunter
Vampire
See
Abraham
Abraham Lincoln
Likely
Because
Without
Lincoln
Subject
End
Which
Theater
Sequel
Film
Ever
It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts.
Roger Moore
Peace
World
Luxury
Sit
Relative
Easy
Subject
Debts
Pontificate
Third
Third World
Expectations that black directors have to make black films about black subject matter are, to me, kind of absurd.
Roger Ross Williams
Me
Matter
Black
Films
Kind
About
Directors
Absurd
Make
Subject
Subject Matter
Expectations
If you are writing something, you automatically create a certain distance. It can be very little. Even within the same city you imaginatively have a certain distance from your subject, and at the same time, you have to have a connection.
Romesh Gunesekera
Time
You
Writing
Distance
City
Something
Within
Subject
Very
Same
Same Time
Automatically
Little
Create
Certain
Your
Connection
Even
When you're a biographer, you want to explore the very things that your subject didn't care to talk about.
Ron Chernow
You
Care
About
Talk
Subject
Very
Want
Explore
Your
Things
I can't write a joke. I could never write. I do a lot of stories and I call them stories, but they're just comedy recitals on a given subject.
Ron Shock
Comedy
Joke
Given
Could
Write
Never
Call
Subject
Lot
Just
Stories
Them
When he was not talking about race, David Duke was a very pleasant guy to talk to. He was a very nice conversationalist. He seemed like a regular guy on the phone when the subject wasn't on race and on Jews and ethnicity.
Ron Stallworth
Phone
Not Talking
Nice
Jews
Pleasant
About
Seemed
Guy
David
He
Like
Talk
Talking
Duke
Subject
Very
Race
Regular
Regular Guy
Ethnicity
Good travel books, like travel itself, open the door to new worlds. In the strongest works the author's vision becomes our own, especially if his or her subject is a distant destination.
Rory MacLean
Good
Travel
Destination
Vision
Own
Worlds
Our
Books
Distant
Strongest
Open
New
Like
Becomes
His
Subject
Itself
Author
Door
Works
Her
I suppose I would still prefer to sit under a tree with a picnic basket rather than under a gas pump, but signs and comic strips are interesting as subject matter.
Roy Lichtenstein
Matter
Signs
Sit
Tree
Pump
Strips
Would
Rather
Picnic
Suppose
Comic
Still
Comic Strips
Subject
Subject Matter
Than
Interesting
Prefer
Gas
Basket
When the scary subject of race is finally broached, kids want to talk and talk. It's very satisfying.
Ruby Bridges
Finally
Kids
Scary
Talk
Subject
Very
Want
Race
Satisfying
The subject of the lesson itself should not become more important that the underlying basis. Drawing thus provides first the written forms of letters and then their printed forms. Based on drawing, we build up to reading.
Rudolf Steiner
First
Important
Build
Reading
Become
Lesson
Drawing
More
Written
Thus
Underlying
Printed
Subject
Provides
Up
Itself
Forms
Then
Should
Based
Letters
Basis
The only knowledge which satisfies us is one which is subject to no external standards but springs from the inner life of the personality.
Rudolf Steiner
Life
Knowledge
Personality
Only
Springs
Subject
Which
Us
Standards
Satisfies
Inner
External
Inner Life
There are no actions involved in 'beautiful.' It's such an inactive thing, and it's so subject to each individual's taste and appreciation. It's a lovely word, but I feel like it's been hijacked by really boring, dull people who don't understand how to use words.
Ruth Negga
Beautiful
Appreciation
People
Words
Word
Boring
Individual
Feel
Hijacked
Like
Involved
Understand
How
Been
Dull
Subject
Taste
Lovely
Really
Use
Who
Actions
Each
Thing
I do not wish to hide my origins, nor do I seek to make it a subject of conversation. I am what I am.
Ryan Giggs
Conversation
Hide
Wish
Seek
Make
Am
Nor
Subject
Origins
I can work with shyness, but for the most part I want people to feel comfortable with me. It's really more about the photographer feeing comfortable right when they walk in that makes the subject feel comfortable.
Ryan McGinley
Work
Me
People
Walk
Photographer
About
More
Part
Feel
Most
Comfortable
Makes
Subject
Want
Really
Right
Shyness
In the matter of learning, the difference between the earnest and the careless student stands out clearly. The same holds true in the mastering of passion and the weaknesses to which our nature is subject, as in the acquiring of virtue.
Saint Ignatius
Nature
Learning
Passion
Matter
Careless
Earnest
Virtue
Our
Out
Weaknesses
Student
True
Between
Clearly
Mastering
Subject
Same
Difference
Holds
Which
Acquiring
Stands
Creating a clear and engaging video explanation of a complex concept is a great way to demonstrate mastery and to help others understand and love the subject, too.
Sal Khan
Love
Great
Help Others
Too
Others
Way
Complex
Clear
Concept
Great Way
Mastery
Understand
Demonstrate
Subject
Explanation
Video
Creating
Engaging
Help
Some kids grasp a subject faster and race ahead to the next level, while others continue to struggle with the first. The great thing we've seen is that if you let a student take his time to master a concept, he will probably race ahead on the next one.
Sal Khan
Time
Great
You
Struggle
Will
Seen
First
Master
Faster
Others
Kids
Some
Student
Take
He
Concept
Great Thing
Continue
His
Subject
While
Race
Next
Next Level
Grasp
Thing
Level
I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science.
Sally Ride
Science
Astronomy
Favorite
Physical
Physical Science
Liked
Math
Subject
Very
Interested
I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construction of the monster and usually that's in the world of the supernatural or the world of the fantastic, so that's why those kinds of stories about demons and the supernatural appeal to me or maybe I'm really interested in that subject.
Sam Raimi
Me
Construction
World
Active
Imagination
Monster
Those
Kinds
About
Something
Supernatural
Participant
Like
Demons
Subject
Maybe
Where
Stories
Interested
Movies
Fantastic
Really
Use
Appeal
Why
We want people to listen to records, to a whole body of music. I want you to buy into my life, not just one subject in my life.
Sam Smith
Life
Buy
Music
You
People
My Life
Records
Subject
Listen
Just
Want
Just One
Body
Whole
The United States being a limited form of government, one of the restrictions to which it is subject is in regard to its power to levy taxes. The States may levy them for a great many purposes for which Congress cannot, because to the States belong all of the powers not delegated to Congress.
Samuel Freeman Miller
Government
Great
Power
Congress
States
Restrictions
Purposes
Powers
Because
Limited
Subject
May
Being
Form
Regard
Cannot
Which
Them
Taxes
Many
United
United States
Belong
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