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You have to realize, in real life, the gun battle lasted for over three hours, and the movie's only two hours long. My hat's off to all those stuntmen who laid it on the line and hurt themselves doing what they had to do to get that done because in real life, we all died, and the only reason I'm sitting here is because of modern medicine.
Marcus Luttrell
Life
You
Hurt
Battle
Gun
Three
Long
Real Life
Medicine
Lasted
Those
Hat
Only
Had
Over
Hours
Because
Real
Doing
Line
Off
Get
Died
Sitting
Modern
Done
Movie
Laid
Realize
Themselves
Reason
Who
Here
Two
In Hawaii, after somebody introduces themselves, the next question is, 'What high school did you go to?' From there, it's either 'Oh, OK, it's cool, I know some family,' or it's trash-talking to the max, like 'my school is better than your school.' This is how it kind of is back there.
Marcus Mariota
Family
You
Better
School
Somebody
Back
OK
Kind
High
Some
High School
Hawaii
Like
Know
How
Go
Question
Than
Did
Max
Oh
After
Either
Themselves
Next
Your
Cool
I cannot stress a greater importance than to teach the young generation about the risks of unhealthy eating. A great way to pique their interest in nutrition is to involve them more in the cooking process. They not only will learn to cook for themselves, but also develop a lifetime of healthy habits.
Marcus Samuelsson
Great
Risks
Generation
Cooking
Stress
Will
Healthy
Young
Nutrition
Way
Eating
About
More
Only
Habits
Lifetime
Develop
Importance
Involve
Also
Great Way
Learn
Greater
Greater Importance
Than
Cannot
Process
Interest
Unhealthy
Them
Themselves
Cook
Teach
For many human beings, an interest in the past starts with themselves. That is, in part, a result of biology. Like other creatures, humans have a beginning and an ending, and in between lies their story.
Margaret MacMillan
Result
Ending
Past
Beginning
Biology
Starts
Other
Lies
Part
Between
Like
Human
Human Beings
In The Past
In-Between
Story
Interest
Themselves
Many
Beings
Creatures
Humans
There may be people who try to imitate art when they get dressed and people who just get dressed to cover themselves up, but I guess that both send out messages and communicate their ideas and feelings through their looks.
Margherita Missoni
Art
People
Communicate
Try
Feelings
Imitate
Guess
Out
Dressed
Both
Through
Ideas
Messages
Looks
Cover
Up
Get
Send
May
Just
Themselves
Who
Like dancers with choreography or actors with scripts, jazz singers could take material that was known, even loved, then risk interpreting and revising it. They could conceal even as they revealed themselves. Inflection, timing and tonality were their language, at least as much as words.
Margo Jefferson
Words
Language
Timing
Jazz
Dancers
Risk
Could
Take
Conceal
Like
Singers
Known
Revealed
Material
Least
Were
Revising
Loved
Scripts
Themselves
Then
Much
Even
Choreography
Actor
Tonality
Interpreting
There is something endearing about people who give themselves up completely to their faith. But there is likewise something frightening about such a totality, which also is a feature of Islam.
Margrethe II of Denmark
Faith
People
Islam
Totality
About
Give
Something
Feature
Also
Likewise
Up
Frightening
Endearing
Which
Themselves
Who
On Amazon, you find retailers that want Amazon to do part of their services. Those, you don't find to the same degree on Google Shopping. On Google Shopping, you find sort of the bigger brands, those who want to have the customer relationship themselves - the data, the payment details, the search patterns.
Margrethe Vestager
Relationship
You
Shopping
Degree
Google
Those
Details
Find
Data
Part
Sort
Amazon
Brands
Same
Want
Bigger
Patterns
Customer
Themselves
Payment
Who
Search
Services
Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself.
Marguerite Yourcenar
Women
Care
Men
Goddess
Herself
Temple
Attach
Accessories
Least
Cult
Passionately
Themselves
Much
Who
The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves.
Maria Edgeworth
Class
Hurt
Harmless
Considered
Bore
Only
Themselves
Who
Creature
I don't like this idea of division: that if you're a clever woman then you've got to be a particular way. Because men don't. Men please themselves.
Marian Keyes
You
Woman
Men
Clever
Please
Way
Division
Idea
Particular
Like
Particular Way
Because
Got
Themselves
Then
For me, 'Angels in America' is not really about AIDS. For me, it's a metaphor for anybody who is struggling with serious illness or having to face their own demise. All of the characters face some form of destruction in themselves.
Marianne Elliott
Me
Destruction
Face
Own
AIDS
Characters
Some
About
Angels
Having
Struggling
Demise
Metaphor
America
Anybody
Form
Themselves
Really
Who
Illness
Serious
Spain is facing an economic situation of extreme difficulty, I repeat, of extreme difficulty, and anyone who doesn't understand that is fooling themselves.
Mariano Rajoy
Situation
Difficulty
Extreme
Economic
Facing
Fooling
Economic Situation
Understand
Repeat
Anyone
Spain
Themselves
Who
It is an amazing feature in the French character that they will let themselves be led away so easily by bad counsels and yet return again so quickly. It is certain that as these people have, out of their misery, treated us so well, we are the more bound to work for their happiness.
Marie Antoinette
Happiness
Work
Character
People
Amazing
Will
Easily
Out
Bad
More
Feature
Misery
Bound
French
Well
Return
Led
Quickly
Again
Themselves
Us
Certain
Away
Treated
The Browning love story? It is an ideal, all too rare, and yet I hardly think it strange. It would have been far stranger had the fates allowed those two brilliant passionate souls to beat themselves out in silence.
Marie Corelli
Love
Silence
Strange
Brilliant
Rare
Love Story
Think
Too
Those
Out
Would
Beat
Had
Allowed
Ideal
Souls
Passionate
Been
Story
Far
Themselves
Stranger
Hardly
Two
Fates
So, babies are taken from their mothers because they get temporarily insane and it's not the mother's fault. This is the thing: they shouldn't feel ashamed. They didn't cause this. It is not something they did to themselves.
Marie Osmond
Fault
Mother
Cause
Babies
Insane
Temporarily
Something
Taken
Feel
Because
Mothers
Get
Did
Ashamed
Themselves
Thing
Many new lovers and spouses struggle to reconcile themselves with their partners' relationship history, but it's an insecurity I left behind in my 20s.
Mariella Frostrup
Relationship
History
Struggle
Insecurity
Reconcile
New
Partners
Spouses
Left
Behind
Lovers
Themselves
Many
From Mozambique to Chad, South Africa and Liberia, Sierra Leone to Burkina Faso, feminism is the buzzword for a generation of women determined to change the course of the future for themselves and their families.
Mariella Frostrup
Future
Change
Generation
Women
Feminism
South Africa
Sierra
Sierra Leone
Determined
Course
South
Families
Africa
Themselves
Chad
The best candidates make a strong case for themselves. They can clearly articulate why they are the best choice for the job - and they can tell me what unique qualities they bring that no one else can offer.
Marillyn Hewson
Best
Me
Strong
Job
Else
Tell
Case
No-One
Clearly
Qualities
Make
Offer
Articulate
Candidates
Themselves
Choice
Unique
Why
Bring
I watched artists who blew up before me become parodies of themselves. I wasn't listening to people when they told me that I had nothing to say, and I can't listen to people now when they tell me I'm the bomb, even though I want to.
Marilyn Minter
Me
People
Listening
Become
Before
Nothing
Say
Though
Tell
Had
Blew
Up
Listen
Artists
Want
Themselves
Who
Even
Now
Bomb
Watched
Artists should never think of themselves as an idol. Fame is a side effect of one's work.
Marina Abramovic
Work
Think
Side
Never
Idol
Effect
Fame
Artists
Themselves
Should
I think that the elites have lived too long among themselves.
Marine Le Pen
Long
Think
Too
Themselves
Lived
Among
Elites
Eric Schmidt from Google is one of my favorite mentors. And Eric would always say this very humbling thing that's really true, which is, he would say, 'Good executives confuse themselves when they convince themselves that they actually do things.'
Marissa Mayer
Good
Google
Confuse
Say
Favorite
Would
Mentors
He
True
Executives
Always
Eric
Very
Which
Themselves
Really
Convince
Actually
Thing
Things
Humbling
Freedom to tell any story I want, with all the imaginary tools of my trade, is why I love writing novels. I love taking an idea, fleshing it out into a new world - and going on adventures with characters who day-dream themselves into existence and take on lives of their own.
Marjorie Liu
Love
Freedom
Writing
World
Own
Tools
Out
Tell
Characters
Take
Taking
Idea
Adventures
New
Trade
Existence
Any
Going
New World
Want
Story
Themselves
Who
Novels
Why
Lives
Imaginary
There have been some brilliant and very successful standalone books that work in themselves and also seem to refresh a series. Anyone who writes a series lives in fear of it becoming stale, so you do whatever you can to keep it fresh - although it does feel a bit nerve-racking to write outside of your comfort zone.
Mark Billingham
Work
You
Fear
Brilliant
Whatever
Books
Bit
Nerve-Racking
Some
Seem
Write
Writes
Outside
Feel
Also
Comfort
Comfort Zone
Although
Does
Fresh
Becoming
Been
Very
Refresh
Anyone
Stale
Themselves
Successful
Your
Who
Series
Keep
Lives
Zone
I believe that if writers want their readers to care about a character, they have to care themselves. I have to root for a detective who screws up as much as Thorne does, who shares my birthday, my North London stomping ground, and my love of country music, both alt and cheesy.
Mark Billingham
Love
Music
Birthday
Character
Care
Country
Believe
Detective
London
About
Both
Writers
Shares
Country Music
Readers
Cheesy
Does
Up
North
Want
Themselves
Much
Root
Ground
Who
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