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I never really thought I had an extensive vocabulary like that, and I'm not an avid reader. I didn't read a lot growing up - at all.
Gza
Thought
Vocabulary
Never
Had
Like
Read
Reader
Lot
Up
Really
Avid
Growing
Growing Up
Extensive
Man's respect for the imponderables varies according to his mental constitution and environment. Through certain modes of thought and training, it can be elevated tremendously, yet there is always a limit.
H. P. Lovecraft
Man
Respect
Constitution
Training
Thought
Tremendously
Mental
Varies
Through
Environment
Limit
Always
His
According
Modes
Certain
Elevated
There's not a formula that I'm following; it's just how I feel at the time. For instance, I did a very experimental film called 'Hardcore Henry,' and that was simply because I thought the filmmaker was very interesting and a risk taker. A film like that had never been made before, so I chose to do that at the time.
Haley Bennett
Time
Thought
Made
Before
Following
Risk
Never
Had
Instance
Simply
Feel
Like
Because
How
Been
Very
Did
Just
Experimental
Interesting
Formula
Chose
Hardcore
Film
Henry
Filmmaker
I thought for a very long time that I had to conform or maybe change the way I look, or maybe the hijab was dimming my beauty. I took a moment, and then I realized, you know what, there's a lot of girls who do wear this, and this is their reality. It just made me even more prouder to wear it.
Halima Aden
Time
Me
You
Change
Reality
Thought
Made
Girl
Long
Long Time
Beauty
Took
Way
Wear
More
Had
Know
Look
Prouder
Lot
Very
Very Long Time
Maybe
Just
Conform
Realized
Then
Moment
Who
Even
I haven't given any thought to collaborating with my sisters. It would be great fun. My daughter Molly is a wonderful writer - someday I'd love to collaborate with her.
Hallie Ephron
Love
Great
Wonderful
Thought
Daughter
Collaborate
Collaborating
Great Fun
Would
Would-Be
Someday
Given
Writer
Sisters
Any
Molly
Fun
Her
I used to worry about what would happen five or 10 years from now, but I don't anymore. I thought about going to medical school because that has always interested me, but decided against it.
Hamilton Jordan
Me
School
Thought
Worry
Would
About
Because
Always
Years
Five
Going
Anymore
Happen
Decided
Against
Interested
Used
Now
Medical
Medical School
When I started in 1992, I really thought the 'Vogue' fashion department was one of the most frightening places on the planet.
Hamish Bowles
Fashion
Thought
Vogue
Most
Frightening
Department
Places
Planet
Really
Started
Actually, I had no idea what shooting hoops was or were. I thought dunking was something you did with a beignet and a cup of steaming coffee. I wasn't exactly sure what a Knick was.
Hamish Bowles
You
Coffee
Thought
Hoops
Exactly
No Idea
Something
Had
Idea
Sure
Were
Cup
Did
Shooting
Actually
As a boy soprano in the high school choir, I later sang a solo during the carol service at Canterbury Cathedral, but I was too young to secure the Freddy Eynsford-Hill role in our production of 'My Fair Lady' - and far too timid to have thought to audition for it.
Hamish Bowles
Service
School
Thought
Young
Too
Our
Later
Carol
Secure
Solo
High
Freddy
High School
Fair
Soprano
Cathedral
Boy
Audition
Role
Timid
Lady
Canterbury
Far
Choir
Sang
Production
Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx.
Hannah Arendt
Political
Thought
Beginning
Believe
Our
Definite
Marx
Had
Aristotle
Came
Tradition
End
Karl
Karl Marx
Theories
Teachings
Less
Plato
I had never thought of hosting, but a really good friend of mine said, 'This is the most empowered platform to speak to young people about the issues that you care about, which is why you're in this in the first place.' So I was like, 'Yeah, no, it makes perfect sense.' And so that's what I started doing.
Hannah Simone
Good
You
People
Speak
Care
Thought
First
Young
Sense
Mine
About
Perfect
Never
Had
Hosting
Like
Most
Empowered
First Place
Makes
Said
Yeah
Doing
Issues
Friend
Place
Which
Young People
Really
Platform
Why
Good Friend
Started
A lot of comedians do bits where they say, 'I was listening to this song, and this person said this, and you know how they say that?' And I thought it would work better if I actually had a DJ put that song lyric right there. It makes it more dynamic, and it's more energetic.
Hannibal Buress
Work
You
Song
Better
Listening
Thought
Lyric
Say
Bits
Would
More
Had
Put
Know
Comedians
Makes
Said
How
Lot
Person
Where
Dynamic
Energetic
They Say
Actually
Right
I went to the studio of Fischli Weiss, and it was magical. I thought: 'This is what I want to do with my life; I want to work with artists and be useful to them.' I was magnetically attracted.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
Life
Work
Thought
My Life
Magical
Studio
Attracted
Artists
Want
Them
Useful
I've always thought that one of the least successful encounters is meeting a writer one admires. For one thing, writers are generally much kinder, more empathetic, more generous people on the page than they are in person.
Hanya Yanagihara
People
Thought
Meeting
Kinder
One Thing
Admires
More
Writer
Writers
Generally
Empathetic
Generous
Always
Least
Encounters
Than
Person
Much
Successful
Page
Thing
I realized I had a novel on my hands, but didn't know where it was going to go. So I thought, 'I'm going to do everything that you're not supposed to do when you plan a novel; I'm going to step back and let this thing take itself wherever it wants to go, and I'm not going to worry about how things connect until later on.'
Hari Kunzru
You
Thought
Back
Everything
Later
Worry
About
Take
Had
Step
Supposed
Know
Until
How
Go
Itself
Hands
Going
Where
Wants
Wherever
Plan
Realized
Connect
Novel
Thing
Things
Writing my first book, I think in hindsight I went into it saying, 'It's gonna sell.' I was earning enough to scrape by sometime around a book or two before 'Tell No One.' I moved up from $50,000 to $75,000, then $150,000 for each book. I had never thought I would be doing anything else. I had enough encouragement.
Harlan Coben
Saying
Book
Writing
Thought
First
Before
Encouragement
Think
Enough
Else
Earning
Tell
Would
Would-Be
Sometime
Never
Had
No-One
Had Enough
Hindsight
Around
Doing
Sell
Up
Scrape
Moved
Anything
Anything Else
Gonna
Then
Each
Two
You watch enough TV, and very soon the inside of your head has become a vast, arid plain, across which you cannot detect the passage of a thought.
Harlan Ellison
You
Thought
Become
Enough
TV
Detect
Inside
Vast
Arid
Head
Soon
Passage
Very
Cannot
Which
Plain
Across
Your
Watch
I was born 'Harmony,' and it was weird because when I was a little kid, I was picked on so much that when I was 13, I changed my name to Harmful. I thought it was a tougher name, so I had it legally changed. And then, I don't know, it just didn't seem to catch on, so... legally, my name is still Harmful, but I just said I'll go back to Harmony.
Harmony Korine
Thought
Harmful
Changed
Harmony
Back
Kid
Born
Seem
Tougher
Had
Picked
Catch
Weird
Name
Know
Because
Said
Still
Go
Legally
Just
Little
Then
Little Kid
Much
I began photographing in 1946. Before that, I was a painter and drawer, with my mother and father's support. They were a bit pissed when I went into photography. They thought photographers were guys who took pictures at weddings.
Harold Feinstein
Photography
Mother
Father
Thought
Before
Took
Bit
Drawer
Photographers
Photographing
Guys
Weddings
Support
Pictures
Were
Began
Who
Painter
I liked discussion and debate and thought that these skills fit well with law. I also had an interest in justice - and later learned that sometimes law and justice actually agree!
Harold H. Greene
Justice
Law
Sometimes
Debate
Thought
Later
Had
Liked
Also
Well
Learned
Fit
Discussion
Interest
Skills
Agree
Actually
I was just mind-blown to find that New Orleans is just so much more fun and interesting than I had ever thought.
Harold Perrineau
Thought
Find
More
Had
New
New Orleans
Than
Just
Interesting
Much
Fun
Ever
Orleans
There was a moment when we were casting 'Groundhog Day' when Bill Murray was not at the top of my list. He'd been getting crankier and crankier. By the end of 'Ghostbusters II', he was pretty cranky. I thought, 'Do I want to put up with this for twelve weeks?'
Harold Ramis
Day
Thought
Top
Pretty
Casting
Weeks
He
Put
Were
Been
End
Up
List
Getting
Want
Cranky
Bill
Bill Murray
Moment
Twelve
The first comedy screenplay that I wrote was Animal House and I always thought I could and should be a director but no one was about to give me that opportunity on Animal House.
Harold Ramis
Me
Director
Animal
Comedy
Opportunity
Thought
First
About
Give
Give Me
Animal House
Could
No-One
House
Wrote
Always
Screenplay
Should
I really only worked for about a month on 'Meatballs.' What happened was that Ivan Reitman figured out that studios wanted to meet everybody involved with 'Animal House' except the producer. So he thought he'd better start directing.
Harold Ramis
Animal
Better
Thought
Everybody
Meet
Month
Out
About
Directing
Only
Animal House
Except
He
Studios
Involved
House
Wanted
Happened
Worked
Producer
Really
Figured
Start
I had this 'War and Peace' thing of wanting to experience war as a kind of incredible human enterprise. I even applied to Officer Candidate School. Then the practical side of me kicked in and I thought, 'I really don't want to get drafted.' So I went down to the physical and checked every psychological disorder and drug on the medical history form.
Harold Ramis
War
Me
History
Peace
Experience
School
Thought
Down
Every
Incredible
Side
Kicked
Enterprise
Kind
Physical
Had
Checked
Practical
Officer
Get
Candidate
Human
Want
Form
Wanting
Psychological
Then
Really
Disorder
Even
Medical
Thing
Applied
Drafted
I would remake 'Club Paradise.' I thought the story was cool, the setting was great. Everything lined up, except I wrote it for Bill Murray and John Cleese.
Harold Ramis
Great
Thought
Paradise
Club
Setting
Everything
Would
John
Except
Remake
Wrote
Lined
Up
Story
Bill
Bill Murray
Cool
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