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A good actor always sets you straight. If you've written a false moment and thought it was probably pretty great, the actor's gonna show you when he gets to that moment. They're the great test of the validity of the material.
Sam Shepard
Good
Great
You
Thought
Sets
Validity
Pretty
He
Written
Always
Material
Test
False
Gets
Straight
Gonna
Good Actor
Show
Moment
Actor
They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'
Samuel Butler
Man
Power
Say
Inscription
Kitten
Write
He
Name
Test
Literary
Whether
They Say
Calamity is the test of integrity.
Samuel Richardson
Integrity
Calamity
Test
The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased.
Samuel Richardson
Love
Worth
Will
First
Reading
Relations
Considerable
Generally
True
Test
True Test
Person
Deceased
Affords
Dies
Where
Anything
Length of years is no proper test of length of life. A man's life is to be measured by what he does in it and what he feels in it.
Samuel Smiles
Life
Man
Proper
He
Feels
Does
Test
Years
Length
Measured
Orange Is the New Black' is the womanliest TV show that has ever existed. It doesn't merely pass the Bechdel test, it gets all As and goes straight to Oxbridge, even though it's only three years old.
Sara Pascoe
Old
Black
Three
Though
TV
TV Show
Only
Merely
New
Pass
Test
Years
Existed
Goes
Orange
Gets
Straight
Show
Even
Ever
I was a terrible painter - my portraits looked like the evil chimera love-children of Picasso's demoiselles and the BBC test card clown.
Sarah Hall
Evil
Clown
Picasso
Like
Looked
Terrible
Test
Painter
Card
Portraits
We have so many thousands of sites to find across the globe and new techniques to test. The field keeps evolving with the technology, which makes things exciting.
Sarah Parcak
Technology
Field
Evolving
Find
Thousands
Exciting
New
Globe
Makes
Test
Sites
Which
Across
Many
Keeps
Techniques
Things
I want challenges that really test me, very difficult ones. I was the same as a kid: when you play with players your own age, it doesn't bring out your best.
Saul Niguez
Best
Me
You
Challenges
Age
Own
Difficult
Kid
Out
Test
Very
Same
Want
Really
Your
Play
Bring
Players
It was an unbelievable experience! The brakes, the g-forces and the power of the engine are beyond description. Thanks to BMW and WilliamsF1 for giving me this chance to test. The test team looked after me brilliantly and I learnt plenty.
Sebastian Vettel
Me
Experience
Giving
Power
Thanks
Plenty
Unbelievable
Beyond
Looked
Learnt
Test
Brakes
After
Engine
Team
Description
Brilliantly
Chance
I have no real desire to play Test cricket, and the reason I lost this desire was because I was not selected consistently for Test matches.
Shahid Afridi
Lost
Cricket
Consistently
Selected
Because
Matches
Real
Test
Reason
Play
Desire
As it is, I have a busy schedule, and I don't think I have the time for Test matches.
Shahid Afridi
Time
Busy
Think
Schedule
Matches
Test
I have arm-wrestled here and there... guys seem to want to test my strength.
Shania Twain
Strength
Seem
Guys
Test
Want
Here
If you're going to turn on an innovation engine, a lot depends on whether managers listen for the brilliance in their employees' ideas that they can then help test, or whether they listen for what's wrong and why it won't work.
Shari L. Ballard
Work
You
Innovation
Employees
Wrong
Ideas
Test
Lot
Managers
Going
Listen
Depends
Whether
Turn
Turn-On
Then
Engine
Help
Why
Brilliance
With my songs, the question is always, 'Can you pull it off live, alone on just an acoustic guitar?' That's the litmus test. If I can, then it's a song I ought to record. If I can't, it's probably not good enough.
Shawn Colvin
Alone
Good
You
Song
Guitar
Not Good Enough
Live
Enough
Ought
Record
Songs
Always
Test
Question
Off
Just
Litmus
Litmus Test
Acoustic
Acoustic Guitar
Then
Pull
Grandma played a taste test game with my sister and me when I was 3 years old. She would blindfold us and have us guess what was on the spoon: the first flavors I got were strawberry - then coffee!
Sherry Yard
Me
Game
Old
Coffee
First
Sister
Guess
Would
Spoon
She
Got
Test
Were
Years
Taste
Flavors
Then
Us
Grandma
Played
Before I made my Test debut, I had played nearly nine years of first-class cricket.
Shikhar Dhawan
Made
Before
Cricket
Nine
Had
Test
Years
Debut
Nearly
Played
I am obsessed with cricket. But to be honest, I prefer the IPL format to test matches.
Shilpa Shetty
To Be Honest
Cricket
Obsessed
Matches
Am
Test
Format
Prefer
Honest
Get a minimum viable product out there, test it out, see how customers respond.
Shira Goodman
Respond
Out
Minimum
See
How
Test
Get
Viable
Customers
Product
After watching my Kannada film 'U Turn,' director Kannan narrated the story of 'Ivan Thanthiran,' and wanted me to attend the auditions in Chennai. He selected me after seeing me perform to two difficult scenes I was given during the screen test.
Shraddha Srinath
Me
Director
Difficult
Seeing
Given
Scenes
Selected
He
Attend
Perform
Test
Auditions
Screen
Wanted
After
Story
Turn
Film
Watching
Two
Gradually I find that my whole soul is merging itself into this business of writing, and especially of writing poetry. I am going to try it; and am going to test, in the most rigid way I know, the awful question whether it is my vocation.
Sidney Lanier
Business
Soul
Writing
Try
Way
Rigid
Find
Vocation
Poetry
Merging
Know
Most
Am
Test
Question
Itself
Gradually
Going
Whether
Whole
Awful
A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.
Simone Weil
Dreams
Pleasant
Pleasure
Joys
Real
Test
Hard
Rough
Found
Belongs
Songs like 'One Love' by Bob Marley - they stand the test of time - it doesn't matter - so anytime I write music, I try to write in tune with an emotion, and I hope there are more times like that for everyone.
Skepta
Love
Hope
Music
Time
Matter
Try
Everyone
Marley
More
Emotion
Write
Songs
Like
Test
Times
Tune
Anytime
Bob
Bob Marley
Stand
With my academic achievement in high school, I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that.
Sonia Sotomayor
Achievement
School
Princeton
Statistics
High
High School
Classmates
Rather
Academic
Equally
Readily
Yale
Accepted
Test
Test Scores
Were
Been
Scores
Reasons
Comparable
Shown
Fast
There is nobody called Test bowler, one day bowler or T20 bowler. It just how you adapt and make a difference to your own game.
Sourav Ganguly
Day
You
Game
Own
One Day
Nobody
Bowler
Make
Make A Difference
How
Test
Just
Difference
Your
Adapt
In 1992, I was part of the Test team and played the Tri-series too. But, I missed the World Cup after being left out of the squad since I was fairly young.
Sourav Ganguly
World
Young
Too
Out
Part
Missed
Since
Fairly
Test
Left
Cup
Squad
Being
After
Team
World Cup
Played
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