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Barack Obama is an elegant and literate man with a cosmopolitan sense of the world. He is widely read in philosophy, literature, and history - as befits a former law professor - and he has shown time and again a surprising interest in contemporary fiction.
Teju Cole
Time
History
Man
World
Law
Sense
Philosophy
Obama
Cosmopolitan
He
Contemporary
Read
Surprising
Fiction
Literate
Literature
Again
Former
Interest
Barack
Barack Obama
Shown
Elegant
Professor
Widely
I think, as an actor, when you're starting off early in your career, you're kind of just seeing what lands. But 'Veronica Mars' definitely primed me to look for surprising, dynamic women. It took me awhile to realize how cool that job was.
Tessa Thompson
Me
You
Women
Job
Think
Took
Definitely
Kind
Mars
Seeing
Look
How
Veronica
Surprising
Off
Just
Dynamic
Realize
Lands
Your
Cool
Actor
Awhile
Early
Career
Starting
I think new plays are vastly more surprising and challenging and inspiring; I hear from audiences all the time that they are delighted when they see plays about the world we live in now, at this moment.
Theresa Rebeck
Time
World
Live
Think
See
About
More
Delighted
Vastly
Inspiring
New
Audiences
Hear
Surprising
Moment
Now
Challenging
Plays
Drama and comedy, to me, are all about being surprising, coherent, and true, all at once.
Tim Blake Nelson
Me
Comedy
Drama
Once
About
True
Surprising
Being
Coherent
It's just astonishing to me, but not surprising in some respects, how dependent we are on the somewhat meaningless and certainly ephemeral feedback that we get from strangers on the Internet. I think that's a dangerous dependence to develop.
Tim Ferriss
Me
Dangerous
Feedback
Internet
Strangers
Think
Astonishing
Respects
Some
Somewhat
Develop
How
Surprising
Get
Dependence
Just
Dependent
Ephemeral
Meaningless
Certainly
I'm first and foremost a company man, surprising as that is. I love Warner Brothers. That's where I have a deal. That's where I've been for years. So I don't really interact too much with other studios and do things with other studios and I don't necessarily read scripts from other studios.
Todd Phillips
Love
Man
Too Much
First
Too
Other
Brothers
Studios
Read
Deal
Been
Surprising
Years
Foremost
Interact
Where
Scripts
Much
Really
Warner
Warner Brothers
Company
Things
Necessarily
Guns are heavy metal machines, and, at least in my case, it's surprising how many hours it takes before it looks like you know what you're doing. Releasing and re-loading magazines is difficult when you're asked to do it quickly and efficiently.
Trieste Kelly Dunn
Heavy Metal
You
Before
Difficult
Machines
Releasing
Guns
Magazines
Case
Takes
Like
Hours
Know
Looks
Metal
How
Least
Doing
Surprising
Quickly
Efficiently
Heavy
Asked
Many
But any big change is more likely to result if there is a disruptive event such as new technologies or platforms that have a surprising effect on market share.
Trip Hawkins
Change
Result
Big
Market
Market Share
More
Share
New
Likely
Big Change
Surprising
Effect
New Technologies
Any
Platforms
Event
Technologies
Disruptive
Professional players work almost every day, for hours on end, and the emphasis is on the word 'work.' It can be with a partner or it can be alone, but professional chess is always a pursuit of something new and surprising.
Viswanathan Anand
Work
Alone
Day
Every Day
Word
Partner
Every
Something
Something New
Pursuit
Almost
Emphasis
Almost Every Day
New
Hours
Always
Chess
Surprising
End
Professional
Players
From being a writer of plays, it was not that surprising that somebody thought of giving me a job as an actor. After I played one part, others came along.
Wallace Shawn
Me
Job
Thought
Somebody
Giving
Others
Writer
Part
Along
Came
Surprising
Being
After
Actor
Played
Plays
But since day one, we've always been kinda up against it. So at the end, it's not surprising that we were kind of led along for so many months and didn't know what the fate of the show was gonna be. It was... in a weird way, just kind of that was the way it's always been.
Will Arnett
Day
Fate
Way
Months
Kind
Kinda
Day One
Weird
Weird Way
Since
Along
Know
Always
Were
Been
Surprising
Led
End
Up
Just
Just Kind
Against
Gonna
Show
Many
I'm kind of under the radar. Not a lot of people notice me. Which is surprising, because I'm so sexy. They're probably intimidated by my sexiness and crushability.
Will Forte
Me
People
Intimidated
Kind
Sexiness
Sexy
Because
Surprising
Lot
Which
Notice
Radar
I kind of put myself out there as is. I'm a quiet person. I don't know if that's surprising. I'm a Pilates junkie.
Zach Galifianakis
Myself
Out
Kind
Put
Know
Pilates
Surprising
Quiet
Person
Students come away with a clear message about how admissions works: If you have money, connections or 'insider' knowledge, you have a leg up. It's hardly surprising that many students of modest or lower means decide it's not even worth playing.
Asha Rangappa
Knowledge
You
Money
Worth
Insider
Admission
About
Students
Clear
Clear Message
Come
Message
How
Surprising
Up
Leg
Decide
Modest
Lower
Means
Many
Works
Connections
Even
Away
Hardly
Playing
I think ageing is challenging, surprising, fun, and full of friendship, so that is the approach I'll take, objecting to the stigmatization of ageing in so many modern societies.
Martha Nussbaum
Friendship
Think
Approach
I Think
Take
Surprising
Modern
Ageing
Full
Fun
Many
Challenging
Societies
You can learn more about anything, and the truth about almost anything is surprising.
Adam Conover
Truth
You
About
More
Almost
Almost Anything
Learn
Surprising
Anything
Donald Trump has been president for nearly three years. He’s been on Twitter for more than 10. Yet the only thing more surprising than Trump’s increasingly awful, hideously unpresidential, deeply divisive tweets is that we still manage to be surprised by them.
S.E. Cupp
Three
Twitter
Increasingly
President
Has-Been
More
Only
Divisive
Still
Surprised
Been
Surprising
Years
Trump
Than
Donald
Manage
Donald Trump
The Only Thing
Them
Tweets
Deeply
Nearly
Awful
Thing
I know it might be surprising to some, but anyone who knows me - especially those who shared a changing room with me in my playing days who first told me I could sing - will tell you what a big fan I am of big band music.
Chris Kamara
Music
Me
You
I Am
Will
First
Big
Band
Changing
Those
Tell
Some
Could
Shared
Days
Know
Sing
Knows
Big Band
Am
Big Fan
Surprising
Anyone
Fan
Room
Might
Who
Playing
I think that I was the first MP to call for the nationalisation of Northern Rock, although that is hardly surprising because I have been calling for the nationalisation of the financial sector for 30 years or more.
John McDonnell
Financial
First
Think
I Think
Sector
More
Call
Calling
Although
Because
Rock
Been
Surprising
Years
Northern
Hardly
It wasn't surprising to me because I've had the conversation with him personally, but Will Smith is more interesting a guy that you could ever capture in a movie or TV show.
Neal Brennan
Me
You
Conversation
Will
Will Smith
TV
TV Show
Guy
More
Could
Had
Him
Smith
Because
Surprising
Movie
Interesting
Personally
Show
Capture
Ever
At their best, new media are chaotic. The new technologies disrupt political pomp and glamour and engage people in an unpolished and unpredictable give-and-take. They also give citizens access to a surprising depth of raw information.
Zephyr Teachout
Best
People
Political
Chaotic
Citizens
Unpredictable
Give
Glamour
Raw
New
Also
Access
New Media
Surprising
New Technologies
Information
Depth
Engage
Media
Technologies
Disrupt
There's nothing surprising about me. I'm dull. I am a fan of the New York subway. I love it.
Brian F. O'Byrne
Love
Me
I Am
Nothing
I Love
About
New
Am
Surprising
Dull
York
New York
Fan
Subway
I like clothes that feel fresh and surprising.
Zawe Ashton
Clothes
Feel
Like
Fresh
Surprising
I hadn't looked at all the Nobel Prizes and thought, my goodness, there's no women. So it was a little bit surprising to me.
Donna Strickland
Me
Women
Thought
Goodness
Bit
Nobel
Looked
Surprising
Prizes
Little
Little Bit
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