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It's so easy to grow apart; marriage takes work.
Courteney Cox
Work
Marriage
Easy
Takes
Apart
Grow
Eventually, you know the rhythm of your character, of the set of the piece. It takes less energy for you to hit that point, and then everything resonates. But initially, it takes a tremendous amount of energy. You just hope it's gonna be okay and you don't forget your lines and those cameras.
Courtney B. Vance
Hope
Character
You
Energy
Resonates
Tremendous
Tremendous Amount
Everything
Those
Okay
Point
Takes
Know
Piece
Cameras
Lines
Hit
Forget
Just
Rhythm
Gonna
Then
Your
Less
Initially
Eventually
Amount
Set
From the outside, there's a lot of glitz. They see you on the red carpet, but they don't see what it takes to get there.
Courtney B. Vance
You
Carpet
See
Outside
Takes
Red
Red Carpet
Lot
Get
In business, there are times when you disagree, and sometimes it turns out that you're just plain wrong. Humor takes away tension and helps you realize you're wrong.
Craig Newmark
You
Business
Sometimes
Disagree
Humor
Out
Takes
Wrong
Tension
Times
Just
Plain
Realize
Turns
Helps
Away
It takes 10 kilograms of grain to produce one kilogram of beef, 15 liters of water to get one kilogram of beef, and those cows produce a lot of methane. Why not get rid of the cows?
Craig Venter
Water
Those
Takes
Beef
Lot
Cows
Get
Grain
Produce
Rid
Why
Why Not
There's no secret crazy backstory. I actually suck at writing. It takes me forever to write a song.
Cuco
Me
Crazy
Song
Writing
Secret
No Secret
Write
Takes
Forever
Suck
Actually
I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours. For me, it takes a while to settle into a mode where I'm truly concentrating.
Curtis Sittenfeld
Me
Try
Few
Settle
Unless
Minimum
Rituals
Write
Takes
Concentrating
Hours
Truly
Mode
Where
Fiction
While
Really
Special
Fame doesn't redeem you. It takes a long time to get there, and when you're finally there, you realise you still have authority figures telling you what to do.
Cyndi Lauper
Time
You
Long
Long Time
Finally
Telling
Takes
Redeem
Still
Fame
Get
Authority
Authority Figures
Realise
Figures
To get education to sink deep into the minds of a nation takes a generation and more.
Cyril Ramaphosa
Education
Generation
Nation
Minds
More
Takes
Sink
Get
Deep
I still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest.
D. B. Weiss
Time
Reading
Think
Tremendous
Something
Investment
Takes
Like
Still
Ulysses
Interest
Much
It takes two years on the stage for an actor or an actress to learn how to speak correctly and to manage his voice properly, and it takes about ten years to master the subtle art of being able to hold one's audience.
D. W. Griffith
Art
Speak
Master
Stage
Correctly
Able
About
Properly
Ten
Ten Years
Voice
Takes
Learn
Audience
How
His
Years
Manage
Being
Hold
Subtle
Actor
Actress
Two
It takes time and energy, and if I'm working, then I'd rather flop in front of the telly than put on a tiny dress and work out how to get myself to God knows where. I mean, lazy some would call it.
Daisy Donovan
Work
God
Time
Myself
Energy
Out
Telly
Would
Dress
Some
Rather
Lazy
Put
Takes
Call
Knows
How
Than
Get
Front
Tiny
Where
Mean
Work Out
Then
Working
Flop
I'll do whatever it takes to go out and help others.
Dakota Meyer
Whatever
Help Others
Others
Out
Takes
Go
Help
When anybody is just starting the process of cooking, I always say it takes practice, and nobody got to be a great cook on their first try.
Damaris Phillips
Great
Cooking
Try
First
Practice
Great Cook
Say
Takes
Nobody
Always
Got
Just
Anybody
Process
Cook
Starting
Trying to write music that's sensitive to 400 years ago takes a bit of madness, as it's such a long stretch of time.
Damon Albarn
Music
Time
Madness
Long
Bit
Write
Takes
Years
Years Ago
Trying
Sensitive
Stretch
It takes a lot of help - nature, friends, family, craftsmen - for me to make what I make.
Dan Colen
Family
Nature
Me
Takes
Make
Lot
Friends
Craftsmen
Help
Even if it was a difficult operation to copy a song, it only takes one person to do it. After that the spread of the song via the Internet or other means of propagation is only limited by the honesty of the users.
Dan Farmer
Honesty
Song
Internet
Difficult
Other
Propagation
Only
Takes
Operation
Limited
Spread
Person
Via
After
Means
Users
Even
Copy
On my mother's side, I'm English, so that's where the freckles come from. On my father's side, I'm German, and he has the fantastic olive hues... I was given mum's skin, whereas my brothers and sisters were given my dad's skin. I do tan up quite well, but it takes me a bit longer.
Dan Feuerriegel
Me
Mother
Father
Skin
Side
Bit
Freckles
Brothers
Brothers And Sisters
Given
He
Takes
Longer
Come
Well
Tan
Were
Hues
Up
German
Sisters
Quite
Where
Whereas
Fantastic
English
Dad
Mum
Olive
I've always had a thing where, if I start something, it's gotta get finished. No matter how long it takes, I've gotta see it to fruition.
Dan Fogler
Matter
Long
Finished
See
Something
Had
Takes
Always
How
Gotta
Get
Where
Fruition
Thing
Start
In a story, you have to have a theme and an angle, you have to have a beginning, middle and an end. You have to have a defining moment and kick it to death. You gotta be able to recognize that, by the way. It probably takes experience.
Dan Jenkins
Death
You
Experience
Beginning
Kick
Way
Defining
Defining Moment
Recognize
Able
Angle
Takes
Gotta
End
Middle
Story
Theme
Moment
A manager uses a relief pitcher like a six shooter, he fires until it's empty then takes the gun and throws it at the villain.
Dan Quisenberry
Gun
Relief
Throws
Fires
He
Takes
Like
Until
Empty
Shooter
Manager
Pitcher
Six
Then
Uses
Villain
One of the best things about being in a band is that we're so lucky to be able to travel the world. It takes us to all these cities that we've never seen before.
Dan Smith
Best
Travel
World
Seen
Before
Band
Cities
Able
About
Never
Takes
Being
Us
Lucky
Things
When it is good, theatre takes a lot of beating both to watch and perform.
Dan Stevens
Good
Theatre
Both
Beating
Takes
Perform
Lot
Watch
When a man gets his money in bad ways, when he sees the better course and takes the worse, then the devil's in his heart, and that fixes him.
Dan Totheroh
Man
Heart
Money
Better
Devil
Worse
Ways
Bad
Sees
He
Takes
Him
Course
His
Gets
Then
There's something about the shape that a poem takes in my mind before I write it that has to do with suddenness.
Dana Goodyear
Mind
Before
About
Something
Poem
Write
Shape
Takes
I just saw a clip of Maria Bamford. She has a comedy show that was filmed and performed from her bed - the whole thing supposedly takes place in her bedroom at her parents house in Duluth, MN. I thought it was great and really strange - to have a comedy special without having to leave your bed.
Dana Schutz
Great
Strange
Comedy
Thought
Parents
Saw
Having
Takes
Performed
Supposedly
House
She
Without
Bed
Bedroom
Leave
Clip
Just
Place
Really
Your
Show
Special
Whole
Her
Thing
Maria
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