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Love every role to be new, and I always like to bring a freshness to every character I play, but that comes down to the script. So, it's important that it's a good script with good, truthful characters and truthful subjects.
Aneurin Barnard
Love
Good
Character
Important
Down
Every
Characters
Good Script
New
Like
Always
Freshness
Subjects
Truthful
Role
Script
Play
Bring
What interests me is the sense of the darkness that we carry within us, the darkness that's akin to one of the principal subjects of the sublime - terror.
Anish Kapoor
Me
Darkness
Sense
Carry
Principal
Within
Terror
Subjects
Sublime
Us
Interests
While I would agree that I write about serious subjects, and that they're not necessarily the most pleasant subjects or even the most pleasant people, as a writer I just think about the humorous aspects of these things - that's what keeps me going when I'm writing a story.
Ann Beattie
Me
People
Writing
Think
Pleasant
Humorous
Would
About
Write
Writer
Most
Subjects
Going
Just
Story
While
Aspects
Agree
Even
Serious
Keeps
Things
Necessarily
I write plays about big, intense subjects.
Anna Deavere Smith
Big
About
Write
Subjects
Intense
Plays
I'm always looking for a cover subject that reflects the magazine, an interest in fashion, in culture, in society. We're trying to bring the world into the pages of 'Vogue.' We do that by tapping into the zeitgeists with our cover subjects.
Anna Wintour
Fashion
Culture
World
Looking
Society
Our
Magazine
Vogue
Always
Cover
Subject
Subjects
Tapping
Reflects
Trying
Interest
Pages
Bring
Pharma companies don't have a direct relationship with consumers, so they're always subjects.
Anne Wojcicki
Relationship
Direct
Consumers
Always
Subjects
Companies
A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.
Annie Dillard
Alone
Best
Looking
Writer
He
Subjects
After
Loves
Well, the fact is that one imagination is critically important, and if you have had your imagination stimulated by what is basically a variety of subjects, you are much more amenable to accepting, to understanding and interacting with the realities of the world.
Ashley Judd
You
World
Important
Understanding
Imagination
Critically
More
Variety
Fact
Had
Well
Accepting
Stimulated
Subjects
Amenable
Interacting
Realities
Much
Your
Basically
The subjects have to come with questions for me. I don't make films where I'm a massive fan.
Asif Kapadia
Me
Films
Come
Massive
Make
Subjects
Questions
Where
Fan
I established my first writing routine when I was 13. The school year had just ended, and I'd won a stack of books for being the best student in a number of subjects. The pile included several 60-leaved notebooks that I decided to fill with short stories.
Ayobami Adebayo
Best
Writing
School
First
Year
Books
Several
Student
Had
Pile
Subjects
Won
Ended
Stack
Short
Just
Established
Being
Stories
Decided
Short Stories
Notebooks
Being The Best
Included
Fill
Routine
Number
No government can be strong and flourishing while the national character is weak and degraded. A government must flourish and decay with its subjects; and, when a prince makes a law or performs an action which has a tendency to injure the character or prosperity of the nation, he injures himself.
Benjamin Robbins Curtis
Government
Character
Strong
Law
Prosperity
Be Strong
Nation
National
Action
Weak
Must
Degraded
Tendency
He
Performs
Prince
Himself
Makes
National Character
Subjects
Decay
Which
While
Injure
Flourish
Flourishing
You need time to build relationships with subjects to win their trust.
Beth Macy
Time
You
Trust
Win
Build
Relationships
Subjects
Need
And only the photographer himself knows the effect he wants. He should know by instinct, grounded in experience, what subjects are enhanced by hard or soft, light or dark treatment.
Bill Brandt
Experience
Dark
Light
Photographer
Only
He
Instinct
Know
Himself
Knows
Effect
Subjects
Wants
Should
Hard
Grounded
Enhanced
Treatment
Soft
I don't plan to write another science book, but I don't plan not to. I do enjoy writing histories, and taking subjects that are generally dull and trying to make them interesting.
Bill Bryson
Science
Book
Writing
Enjoy
Write
Generally
Taking
Make
Another
Dull
Subjects
Histories
Trying
Interesting
Them
Plan
My entire life has been spent thinking about this game. That's pretty narrow... I don't view myself as a person who's well-versed in very many subjects. I'm not proud of that.
Bill Parcells
Life
Myself
Game
Thinking
Spent
Has-Been
Pretty
Entire
About
Entire Life
Proud
Narrow
Been
Subjects
Very
Person
View
Many
It's not a very popular subject amongst my audience, who are by nature more internationalist, but I don't choose what to write about, I don't choose my subjects, they kind of choose me.
Billy Bragg
Nature
Me
Kind
About
More
Write
Audience
Subject
Subjects
Very
Choose
Who
Popular
Internationalist
Amongst
In my teenage years I was put off the idea of a career in flying, because I'd convinced myself that you had to be a boffin with degrees in maths and physics, which were my weakest subjects.
Bruce Dickinson
Myself
You
Physics
Teenage
Teenage Years
Flying
Weakest
Degrees
Had
Put
Idea
Because
Were
Years
Off
Maths
Subjects
Which
Convinced
Career
I like to read about subjects unrelated to my work, especially history.
Bruno Tonioli
Work
History
About
Unrelated
Like
Read
Subjects
Most people think of cinematographers as choosing subjects of an epic nature to show off what they do - big, sweeping images of war or pageantry.
Caleb Deschanel
War
Nature
People
Big
Show Off
Think
Most
Off
Subjects
Epic
Sweeping
Show
Choosing
Images
I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way.
Carol Ann Duffy
Think
Other
Way
See
Poetry
New
Deal
Enabling
Subject
Subjects
New Way
Curriculum
Children
Them
Help
I approach serious subjects, and I like to have the good guys win and have the parents among the good guys.
Caroline B. Cooney
Good
Win
Parents
Approach
Guys
Like
Subjects
Serious
Among
Good Guys
I feel like it's my responsibility to honestly cover a lot of subjects in part because I have two little girls and I really want them when they grow up to have a voice.
Carre Otis
Responsibility
Girl
Honestly
Voice
Part
Feel
Like
Because
Cover
Lot
Subjects
Up
Want
Little
Them
Little Girls
Really
Grow
Grow Up
Two
If someone were to call me 'the next Amy Tan,' it would not be because - or not primarily because - we have similar themes or subjects or styles. Let's be honest: it would be because we are both Chinese American.
Celeste Ng
Me
Would
Would-Be
Someone
Similar
Both
Primarily
Call
Because
Styles
Tan
Were
Subjects
American
Chinese
Themes
Next
Honest
Amy
The laws receive their force and authority from an oath of fidelity, either tacit or expressed, which living subjects have sworn to their sovereign, in order to restrain the intestine fermentation of the private interest of individuals.
Cesare Beccaria
Living
Oath
Restrain
Tacit
Laws
Individuals
Force
Private
Subjects
Authority
Sovereign
Order
Either
Which
Interest
Fidelity
Expressed
Sworn
Receive
IT may be proper to observe further, that this Duty is not confined to those who live under any one particular Form of Government: It extends to the Subjects of all regular States, lawfully established.
Charles Inglis
Government
Duty
Live
States
Further
Those
Proper
Observe
Particular
Subjects
Any
May
Confined
Established
Form
Regular
Who
I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his powerless subjects. That's different from prescribing a way in which a writer should write.
Chinua Achebe
Word
Think
Sides
Way
Definition
Would
Someone
Write
Writer
Takes
Emperor
Powerless
His
Subjects
Artist
Different
Which
Against
Should
Who
Prescribing
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