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If anyone ever asked me what I had to complain about it would not have taken long to tell them. Maybe I was just easily pleased.
Len G. Murray
Me
Long
Complain
Pleased
Easily
Tell
Would
About
Had
Taken
Maybe
Just
Anyone
Them
Asked
Ever
After I got over the terrible pain of having something of mine taken from me, I began to think how bad everybody else must be feeling. It wasn't a nice time.
Lena Horne
Time
Me
Feeling
Pain
Nice
Think
Everybody
Everybody Else
Else
Mine
Bad
Must
Something
Having
Taken
Over
Terrible
Got
How
Began
After
I use the computer as a paintbrush. It enables me to do in hours what would have taken months.
Leon Max
Me
Months
Would
Computer
Taken
Hours
Enables
Use
Paintbrush
I'm just starting to scratch the surface of what really makes me happy and it's taken me a while to admit that acting like a little child and being a jerk and a punk is fun.
Leonardo DiCaprio
Me
Happy
Punk
Admit
Taken
Like
Makes
Surface
Child
Scratch
Just
Being
While
Little
Little Child
Really
Acting
Fun
Jerk
Starting
For every step forward in electronic communications, we've taken two steps back in humanity. People know how to use a computer and answering machines but have forgotten how to connect with one another. Our society is unraveling. We're too self-obsessed.
Letitia Baldrige
Humanity
People
Every
Society
Every Step
Too
Back
Our
Machines
Unraveling
Computer
Step
Taken
Step Forward
Steps
Know
Another
How
Answering
Forgotten
Communications
Use
Connect
Forward
Electronic
Two
I wish I watched movies like 'Hidden Figures' when I was a kid, and maybe I would've taken science classes super seriously, because I saw myself.
Letitia Wright
Myself
Science
Seriously
Wish
Saw
Kid
Hidden
Super
Classes
Taken
Like
Because
Maybe
Movies
Figures
Watched
A lot of people fear death because they think that so overwhelming an experience has to be painful, but I've seen quite a few deaths, and, with one exception, I've never known anyone to undergo anything like agony. That's amazing when you think about it. I mean, how complicated the mechanism is that's being taken apart.
Lewis Thomas
Death
You
Experience
People
Complicated
Fear
Amazing
Seen
Overwhelming
Few
Think
About
Exception
Never
Taken
Like
Undergo
Known
Because
How
Deaths
Lot
Quite
Being
Anyone
Anything
Apart
Mean
Painful
Agony
Mechanism
I was taken to one place by a director, and he bought me a lap dance.
Lexa Doig
Me
Director
Dance
He
Taken
Bought
Place
Lap
The superheroes have taken over all the screens in the world. And good luck to them: they're making a lot of money for a lot of people. But the studios are going to become victims of their own success. People are going to get bored with that stuff.
Liam Cunningham
Success
Good
People
World
Money
Become
Own
Luck
Good Luck
Bored
Superheroes
Taken
Studios
Stuff
Over
Making
Lot
Get
Going
Screens
Victims
Them
It's so hard coming out of drama school to claim your right to be taken seriously and even get auditions.
Lily James
School
Seriously
Drama
Drama School
Claim
Out
Taken
Auditions
Coming
Get
Your
Hard
Even
Right
Each of my books has taken me a different length of time to write - eight months for 'Seesaw Girl,' eight months for 'Shard,' three years for 'When My Name Was Keoko!' The publisher takes another year and a half to work on the book, so altogether each book can take up to three or four years to publish.
Linda Sue Park
Work
Time
Me
Book
Girl
Three
Half
Year
Publish
Books
Months
Write
Take
Taken
Takes
Name
Another
Altogether
Years
Up
Eight
Different
Length
Each
Publisher
Four
Partying and having all of those pictures taken distracts from the work that I do. It's not why I started acting. I didn't get into acting to be written about. It kind of just happened - so I accept that it's my life.
Lindsay Lohan
Life
Work
My Life
Those
Kind
About
Having
Taken
Written
Pictures
Accept
Partying
Get
Just
Happened
Acting
Why
Started
This time, there were no drugs involved. The hours were completely normal daytime hours. I think we were able to appreciate the interplay, where before we had taken it for granted.
Lindsey Buckingham
Time
Before
Think
Able
Had
Taken
Daytime
Hours
Involved
Were
Normal
Where
Granted
Appreciate
I feel like my art is very eclectic. I have taken my favorite things - be that costume designing, fashion sense, music and video editing - and I threw them all into one big clump. And that's what I do.
Lindsey Stirling
Music
Art
Fashion
Editing
Big
Sense
Favorite
Favorite Things
Threw
Eclectic
Costume
Taken
Feel
Like
Very
Them
Video
Things
Designing
I wrote two poems about the '81 uprisings: 'Di Great Insohreckshan' and 'Mekin Histri.' I wrote those two poems from the perspective of those who had taken part in the Brixton riots. The tone of the poem is celebratory because I wanted to capture the mood of exhilaration felt by black people at the time.
Linton Kwesi Johnson
Time
Great
People
Perspective
Black
Those
Mood
Riots
About
Poem
Poems
Had
Part
Taken
Wrote
Because
Felt
Exhilaration
Wanted
Who
Capture
Tone
Two
I am pleased now that I have lived in a gay as well as a religious ghetto, though it hasn't been very comfortable. Taken together, their limitations cancel each other out and I have seen the world more kindly and more honestly.
Lionel Blue
Gay
Together
World
Seen
Honestly
Other
Pleased
Ghetto
Though
Out
Religious
Kindly
More
Taken
Well
Comfortable
Limitations
Am
Been
Very
Cancel
Each
Lived
Now
I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it.
Lisa Marie Presley
Failure
Every
Think
Would
Taken
Failed
Test
Been
Ever
I've sung my whole life. I've taken lots of voice lessons and I love to sing. But I've never really sung professionally at all.
Liv Tyler
Life
Love
Sung
Voice
Voice Lessons
Never
Taken
Sing
Lots
Really
Lessons
Whole
Professionally
I was awake for the therapy, it was documented by a film crew. I am proud to have taken part of helping millions of people even if it has bad results.
Liz Parrish
People
Crew
Bad
Results
Part
Taken
Documented
Proud
Am
Therapy
Helping
Awake
Even
Film
Millions
Millions Of People
I could have been banned. That's what I was most scared about. All the hard work being for nothing. It was basically my livelihood and my sport being taken away from me. It was everything.
Lizzie Armitstead
Work
Hard Work
Me
Nothing
Everything
Scared
About
Could
Taken
Most
Sport
Been
Being
Banned
Hard
Livelihood
Away
Basically
Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.
Lord Dunsany
Too
Beneficial
Logic
Taken
Like
Quantities
Loses
Effect
Whiskey
Large
In 2007, Michael Grimm, former Marine, former FBI agent, accountant and attorney, was poised for success as a small business owner. Instead, as alleged, Grimm made the choice to go from upholding the law to breaking it. In so doing, he turned his back on every oath he had ever taken.
Loretta Lynch
Success
Business
Law
Made
Every
Back
Oath
Alleged
Small
Small Business
Poised
Had
He
Taken
Instead
Attorney
Doing
Go
His
Michael
Accountant
Upholding
Owner
Breaking
Former
Turned
Agent
Choice
Business Owner
Ever
Marine
My younger daughter really loves makeup. She's quite good artistically. I could see her going into something possibly behind the camera - whether it's in film or still camera for editorial stuff - but she's very taken with makeup, and she's really quite talented for as young as she is.
Lori Loughlin
Good
Daughter
Young
Possibly
See
Something
Could
Taken
Stuff
Talented
She
Makeup
Editorial
Still
Camera
Very
Going
Quite
Behind
Whether
Loves
Younger
Really
Film
Her
I have always said to myself, 'I never want to say I'm leaving a job because I want to spend more time with my family.' I feel sorry for people when they say that. But my advice to them is that you shouldn't have taken the job in the first place.
Louis Freeh
Time
Myself
Family
You
People
Job
First
Sorry
Advice
Spend
Say
More
Never
Taken
Feel
First Place
Because
Said
Always
Leaving
Want
Place
Them
They Say
The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice.
Lucian Freud
Worth
Picture
Preserving
Took
About
Could
He
Taken
Feels
Qualities
Were
His
Model
Person
Which
Really
Painted
Painter
Twice
Thinks
Being involved in 'The Hobbit' has been a huge boost for me. It's really put me on the map and helped me be taken more seriously as an actor.
Luke Evans
Me
Seriously
Boost
Has-Been
More
Taken
Put
Involved
Been
Huge
Hobbit
Being
Really
Helped
Map
Actor
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