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I may not be the most famous songwriter in the world, but you know a David Friedman song when you hear it. It took me a long time to appreciate that.
David Friedman
Time
Me
You
Song
World
Long
Long Time
Took
David
Songwriter
Know
Most
Hear
May
Famous
Appreciate
When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer.
David Guterson
Class
Creative
Writing
College
Took
Week
Writer
Decided
Creative Writing
No publisher in America improved a paper so quickly on so grand a scale, took a paper that was marginal in qualities and brought it to excellence as Otis Chandler did.
David Halberstam
Took
Paper
Scale
Brought
Excellence
Qualities
Quickly
Improved
America
Did
Grand
Publisher
Marginal
When I went to Moscow, I felt I was relearning Swan Lake - which was written for the Bolshoi - and being immersed in a tradition and history I had never experienced. It took a while to adjust to living there and learning the language, but now I have lots of friends. I get the best of two completely different worlds.
David Hallberg
Best
History
Learning
Language
Living
Worlds
Took
Immersed
Adjust
Never
Had
Written
Moscow
Felt
Tradition
Lots
Friends
Get
Being
Different
Experienced
Lake
Which
While
Swan
Now
Different Worlds
Two
I've been acting for 27 years, and anonymity has always been a part of what I do. Of course you get recognised every now and again, but 'Homeland' pushed me into a completely different strata, and that took me by surprise.
David Harewood
Me
You
Every
Took
Recognised
Pushed
Part
Anonymity
Course
Always
Surprise
Been
Years
Get
Different
Again
Acting
Strata
Homeland
Now
But slowly I began to use cameras and then think about what it was that was going on. It took me a long time, I mean I actually played with cameras and photography for about 20 years.
David Hockney
Time
Me
Photography
Long
Long Time
Think
Took
Slowly
About
Years
Cameras
Began
Going
Mean
Then
Use
Actually
Played
I took the process of doing as much myself as I could like a duck to water. I set up my own label and publishing, etc, and it was a fun learning curve two decades ago.
David Knopfler
Myself
Learning
Water
Own
Took
My Own
Could
Like
Like A Duck
Learning Curve
Duck
Doing
Label
Up
Decades
Curve
Process
Etc
Much
Fun
Publishing
Two
Set
Harlem was the main chance for the east end of New York, for eastsiders, as that real estate boom that took place in the 1890s - and it was a preposterous one where people bought and sold, and everything appreciated with each sale - and eventually, of course, the house of cards would crumble.
David Levering Lewis
People
Real Estate
Took
Sold
Everything
Boom
East
Would
Main
Bought
Crumble
New
House
House Of Cards
Course
Real
Sale
End
York
New York
Where
Estate
Place
Each
Eventually
Cards
Chance
Harlem
Appreciated
People from all over the world want to be in New York. This rather simple idea took me a long time to learn.
David Lichtenstein
Time
Me
People
World
Simple
Long
Long Time
Took
Rather
Simple Idea
Idea
Over
New
Learn
York
New York
Want
Some critics of my work took the view that a satirist should defer to the finer feelings of his readers and respect widely held beliefs.
David Low
Work
Respect
Feelings
Defer
Took
Critics
Some
Finer
Readers
His
Held
Should
View
Beliefs
Satirist
Widely
I came back to Chelsea to stay. When I took my decision to come back here from Paris, it was to win the Premier League and to do something again with Chelsea, so I am very happy here.
David Luiz
Happy
Win
Decision
Took
Back
Stay
Something
Paris
League
Come
Chelsea
Am
Came
Very
Again
Premier
Premier League
Here
I took the liberal view for many decades, but I believe I have changed my mind.
David Mamet
Mind
Believe
Changed
Liberal
Took
Decades
View
Many
In a few hundred years you have achieved in America what it took thousands of years to achieve in Europe.
David McCallum
You
Achieve
Few
Took
Hundred
Hundred Years
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
Years
America
Achieved
Europe
It's true that players can take time to settle at a new club. I remember people telling me it took Patrice Evra and Nemanja Vidic a while - players who became great players for United.
David Moyes
Time
Great
Me
People
Remember
Club
Settle
Took
Telling
Take
True
New
Became
While
Who
United
Players
It took time at Everton to build a team so that when we did go to United or Arsenal or Liverpool, we went with a good chance of getting a result.
David Moyes
Time
Good
Result
Build
Took
Go
Arsenal
Did
Getting
Good Chance
Team
United
Liverpool
Everton
Chance
When I took over at Everton, the challenge for us was to try to go toe-to-toe with a club having success in Europe and sometimes competing for the Premier League.
David Moyes
Success
Sometimes
Try
Challenge
Club
Took
Having
Over
League
Go
Us
Premier
Premier League
Europe
Everton
Competing
I had a meeting in LA in which they took a really overstuffed hour and a half. It was as close to old Hollywood as I remembered it in the last 20 years.
David Ogden Stiers
Old
Half
Took
Meeting
Had
Remembered
Hour
Hour And A Half
Years
La
Close
Which
Hollywood
Really
Last
When I was six years old, my parents took me to this farmers' market with a petting zoo. They put me on a pony and, for some reason, it took off at a run and they had to chase it down. They tell me it was kind of traumatic.
David Schwimmer
Me
Old
Parents
Down
Took
Market
Tell
Kind
Run
Some
Chase
Had
Put
Years
Off
Six
Pony
Farmers
Reason
Traumatic
Zoo
After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations.
David Sedaris
Art
Dangerous
Parents
Few
State
Took
State University
Months
Destroy
Entire
Potential
Both
Civilizations
Combination
Conceptual
Conceptual Art
Crystal
Discovered
Where
After
Either
Apartment
Near
Basement
Things
University
I rewrote it and I took all your notes. Read it again, that kind of persistence paid off.
David Steinberg
Persistence
Took
Kind
Read
Off
Again
Notes
Paid
Your
You know what? I did a lot of things that were deliberate, and they all backfired. I was trying desperately to become Will Ferrell or Adam Sandler, and it did not work for me. I took a lot of leaps that I shouldn't have, traditionally speaking. I paid the price for that. I was not as hire-able for a while. But then I just gave all that up.
Dax Shepard
Work
Me
You
Will
Become
Desperately
Gave
Took
Will Ferrell
Deliberate
Price
Know
Leaps
Were
Lot
Up
Trying
Did
Just
While
Sandler
Then
Paid
Speaking
Things
Adam
Adam Sandler
I have four sisters at home, and both my mom and dad worked, and both of them took care of us. It wasn't like my mom was fully domestic, or my dad was fully domestic: they were just equals in their relationship. So I grew up with the perspective that women should be pursuing their dreams and not have to depend on a guy.
Daya
Dreams
Home
Mom
Relationship
Women
Perspective
Care
Depend
Took
Guy
Both
Pursuing
Like
Equals
Were
Domestic
Up
Sisters
Just
Grew
Them
Us
Worked
Should
Mom And Dad
Fully
Dad
Four
My dad was the one who took me to concerts and introduced me to new artists. One time, he drove me from Pittsburgh to Washington, D.C., on a school night to see 'U2' - he was a pretty dedicated Bono fan.
Daya
Time
Me
School
Bono
Took
Introduced
One Time
See
Pretty
He
Drove
New
Concerts
Artists
Fan
Pittsburgh
Dedicated
Who
Dad
Washington
Night
I was invited to L.A. when I was 16 for a weekend-long songwriting session by a writer I had met through my voice teacher in Pittsburgh. My first hit, 'Hide Away,' was one of the songs written during those sessions. It was played for a radio rep who then started a new label; the song got a pretty organic start at radio and then took off.
Daya
Teacher
Song
Hide
First
Met
Organic
Took
Those
Pretty
Voice
Through
Writer
Had
Songs
Written
Songwriting
Invited
New
Got
Rep
Off
Label
Hit
Pittsburgh
Then
Who
Radio
Away
Played
Start
Started
Session
I liked Westerns for two reasons: First, it took the actor outside. They were all very physical at that time and not limited to a stage. Second, they paid my rent an awful lot.
DeForest Kelley
Time
First
Stage
Took
Physical
Outside
Liked
Limited
Rent
Were
Lot
Very
Westerns
Paid
Reasons
Actor
Awful
Awful Lot
Second
Two
I came up different; I took a different route. I want to lead my own path.
DeMar DeRozan
Path
Own
Took
My Own
Lead
Came
Up
Different
Want
Route
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