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Good actors, especially when they know their character, will come in and either tell you in advance that they have an idea, or in the middle of the rehearsal or the scene they'll let it loose and you go, 'Ah that's great.'
Denis Leary
Good
Great
Character
You
Will
Tell
Scene
Advance
Idea
Come
Know
Loose
Go
Middle
Either
Good Actors
Rehearsal
Actor
My family were great story-tellers. My mum was one of 12 and they were all fighting to tell stories. You have to tell a good tale or no one is going to listen. You have to make it entertaining and interesting. That's how I learned to tell stories.
Denise Mina
Good
Great
Family
You
Fighting
Tell
Entertaining
No-One
Tale
Make
Learned
How
Were
Going
Listen
Stories
Interesting
Mum
Don't let anyone tell you your ideas are stupid or the thing you feel most passionate about 'won't work' - it's happened to me time and time again, and we find that if you push at what you think is interesting hard enough, you're probably right.
Dennis Crowley
Work
Time
Me
You
Stupid
Think
Enough
Tell
Find
About
Push
Feel
Ideas
Most
Passionate
Time And Time
Anyone
Happened
Again
Interesting
Your
Hard
Right
Thing
People used to pooh-pooh the idea of a check-in, saying that this wasn't interesting. But when you have 3 billion of those data points, you can take any latitude and longitude anywhere in the world, and I'll tell you what is interesting now, 20 minutes from now, and 6 hours from now.
Dennis Crowley
Saying
You
People
World
Those
Latitude
Tell
Minutes
Data
Take
Points
Idea
Hours
Any
Anywhere
Interesting
Used
Billion
Now
I wasn't so sure about signing up for 'Law & Order.' I liked the show, but another TV series? I'll tell you, though, it's been great, and I had no idea how popular the show was.
Dennis Farina
Great
You
Law
Though
Tell
TV
Signing
TV Series
No Idea
About
Had
Idea
Liked
Another
Sure
How
Been
Up
Order
Show
Popular
Series
I think it's inconsistent to tell the American people that you oppose the war and, yet, you continue to vote to fund the war. Because every time you vote to fund the war, you're reauthorizing the war all over again.
Dennis Kucinich
War
Time
You
Vote
People
Oppose
Every
Think
Every Time
Tell
Over
Because
Continue
American
Again
American People
Fund
Inconsistent
Never ever discount the idea of marriage. Sure, someone might tell you that marriage is just a piece of paper. Well, so is money, and what's more life-affirming than cold, hard cash?
Dennis Miller
You
Marriage
Money
Cold
Paper
Tell
Someone
Cash
More
Never
Idea
Piece
Well
Sure
Discount
Than
Just
Might
Hard
Ever
The only way the French are going in is if we tell them we found truffles in Iraq.
Dennis Miller
Way
Tell
Only
French
Iraq
Going
Them
Found
There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work.
Dennis Potter
Work
You
Analysis
Tell
Critics
Write
Put
Because
End
Impulse
Fiction
I can tell you the day The Beach Boys will no longer exist - never. We'll be on stage in wheelchairs.
Dennis Wilson
Day
You
Will
Stage
Tell
Beach
Beach Boys
Never
Longer
Boy
Exist
My neighborhood was normal. I had a neighborhood where everyone knew everyone. Typical American upbringing. Sometimes we got into trouble, but everyone watched after each other, so if my parents didn't see me making trouble, another family would tell them.
Deontay Wilder
Family
Me
Sometimes
Parents
Trouble
Other
Everyone
Typical
Neighborhood
Tell
Would
See
Had
Knew
Another
Got
Making
Normal
Upbringing
American
Where
After
Them
Each
Watched
There are no tests similar to SATs to tell us how much undergraduates know. State legislators, who appropriate billions of dollars each year to higher education, are naturally interested in finding out what they are getting for their money.
Derek Bok
Education
Money
Higher Education
Year
State
Appropriate
Out
Tell
Finding
Similar
Higher
Know
How
How Much
Dollars
Tests
Getting
Legislators
Interested
Us
Much
Naturally
Who
Billions
Billions Of Dollars
Each
Each Year
I feel like the job in editing is to let the movie tell you what it is. So again, it's like sculpture. You just start taking away, you add a nose here, you cut off, like, the side of the cheek over here in the crease, and you have a face. But it really reveals to you what it means to be over time, and if you have enough time.
Derek Cianfrance
Time
You
Editing
Job
Face
Add
Enough
Enough Time
Side
Tell
Taking
Feel
Over
Like
Cheek
Reveals
Off
Just
Nose
Movie
Again
Cut
Really
Means
Sculpture
Away
Start
Here
You tell me you want to race down the street, I'm going to try to beat you. My grandmother asks me to race down the street, I'm going to try to beat her. And I'll probably enjoy it. Competitive to a fault, sometimes.
Derek Jeter
Me
You
Fault
Sometimes
Try
Down
Enjoy
Tell
Beat
Going
Want
Race
Ask
Grandmother
Street
Her
Competitive
A magic trick of any sort works because you tell yourself a story about what you see. And politicians use this all the time in their own way by throwing a load of statistics at you when things don't quite follow and then saying, 'So therefore blah,' and you believe that 'blah' thing because of the confusion that's come before.
Derren Brown
Saying
Time
You
Yourself
Confusion
Before
Own
Politicians
Believe
Way
Tell
Statistics
Trick
Follow
See
Magic
About
Blah
Throwing
Come
Sort
Because
Any
Quite
Story
Then
Use
Therefore
Works
Thing
Things
Load
People are just passively accepting what you tell them, so if you are on TV there is that greater responsibility to be true.
Derren Brown
You
People
Responsibility
Be True
Tell
TV
True
Greater
Accepting
Passively
Just
Them
We go through life owned by the stories we tell ourselves which are often historic and charged narratives - things we've learnt since childhood that we don't even consciously realise are going on.
Derren Brown
Life
Ourselves
Tell
Charged
Through
Since
Narratives
Learnt
Go
Historic
Owned
Going
Often
Childhood
Stories
Realise
Which
Even
Things
For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other and especially to ourselves. The lies are necessary because, without them, many deplorable acts would become impossibilities.
Derrick Jensen
Become
Living
Other
Our
Way
Ourselves
Tell
Must
Would
Lies
Maintain
Because
Without
Impossibilities
Deplorable
Them
Us
Many
Each
Acts
Necessary
For too long, Democrats have been telling people what they want to hear. I'm going to tell you what I believe.
Deval Patrick
You
People
Long
Believe
Too
Tell
Telling
Democrats
Hear
Been
Going
Want
Mitt Romney talks a lot about all the things he's fixed. I can tell you that Massachusetts wasn't one of them. He's a fine fellow and a great salesman, but as governor he was more interested in having the job than doing it.
Deval Patrick
Great
You
Job
Tell
Fine
About
Having
More
He
Massachusetts
Fellow
Talks
Doing
Mitt
Mitt Romney
Lot
Salesman
Governor
Than
Fixed
Romney
Interested
Them
Things
Let's go tell everyone we meet that, when the American dream is at stake, you want Barack Obama in charge.
Deval Patrick
You
Meet
Everyone
Tell
Charge
Dream
Obama
Go
American
American Dream
Want
Barack
Barack Obama
Stake
What does one tell a husband? One tells him nothing.
Dewitt Bodeen
Husband
Nothing
Tell
Tells
Him
Does
Any American who has spent time in Iraq or Afghanistan will tell you: the closer you get, the less certain you are of anything. If you are in Iraq, if you are in Afghanistan, everything is ambiguous. Everything is murky and gray and uncertain and possibly lethal.
Dexter Filkins
Time
You
Will
Everything
Spent
Tell
Possibly
Uncertain
Iraq
Ambiguous
Get
American
Closer
Any
Afghanistan
Anything
Certain
Less
Who
Lethal
Murky
Gray
Well, to aspiring writers, I would tell them that we live in a wonderful time where you're able to make your work visible, easily.
Diablo Cody
Work
Time
You
Wonderful
Live
Visible
Easily
Tell
Would
Able
Writers
Well
Make
Wonderful Time
Where
Them
Your
Aspiring
Part of my purpose in my books has been to tell the complete story of a relationship and a marriage, not just to end with 'happily ever after,' leaving the protagonists at the altar or in bed... I wanted to show some of the complicated business of actually living a successful marriage.
Diana Gabaldon
Relationship
Business
Marriage
Complicated
Living
Complete
Books
Tell
Has-Been
Some
Purpose
Part
Protagonists
Altar
Bed
Leaving
Been
End
Just
Wanted
After
Story
Happily
Successful
Show
Ever
Ever After
Actually
When I tell people I'm going to the Olympics, they're like: 'What do you do, track and field? Pole vault? Are you a volleyball player?' No one ever guesses tae kwon do.
Diana Lopez
You
People
Field
Guesses
Tell
Vault
Volleyball
No-One
Pole
Like
Track
Track And Field
Going
Ever
Player
Olympics
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