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I took four years off after 'In the Cut' because I wanted to see who I'd be without work. I even tried being a hermit in the wilderness in New Zealand. I stayed in a warden's hut two-and-a-half hours off the Routeburn Track through the fjords on the South Island. It was early winter, so there was no electricity or running water.
Jane Campion
Work
Winter
Water
Hermit
Took
Wilderness
Running
Tried
See
Stayed
Hut
Through
New
Hours
Track
Because
Without
Island
Years
South
Off
Being
Wanted
After
New Zealand
Cut
Electricity
Who
Even
Zealand
Four
Early
We're not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that.
Jane Fonda
Time
Me
Long
Long Time
Took
Perfect
Learn
Meant
Meant To Be
I needed my own territory, and I didn't know how I was going to get it. And so I took my frustrations and plugged them into someone entirely different from me. I wanted to see if I could slip into someone else's skin.
Jane Hamilton
Me
Own
Skin
Else
Took
Slip
See
Someone
Entirely
My Own
Could
Know
Territory
How
Get
Going
Different
Wanted
Frustrations
Them
If I Could
Needed
In 1927, my father descended the heights and took his place as the newly appointed water boy for his beloved New York football Giants.
Jane Leavy
Water
Father
Heights
Took
Giants
Football
New
Boy
His
York
New York
Place
Newly
Descended
Appointed
Beloved
After my divorce, painting took me out of panic mode and into a serene, calm place. I could absolutely lose myself.
Jane Seymour
Myself
Me
Calm
Lose
Painting
Panic
Took
Out
Could
Absolutely
Divorce
Mode
After
Place
Serene
It once amused me that it took me three tries to pass my driver's test and that my driving instructor told my mother that I was the least talented person behind the wheel that she had ever taught.
Jane Smiley
Me
Mother
Three
Took
Once
Tries
Driver
Had
Driving
Talented
Instructor
She
Pass
Least
Test
Person
Wheel
Behind
Taught
Ever
Amused
I took all of my rejection letters - there must have been thousands of them in a huge box - and I went out on the curb and burned them all, crying.
Janet Evanovich
Rejection
Took
Out
Must
Thousands
Crying
Box
Been
Huge
Curb
Burned
Them
Letters
When I had my kids, I took a lot of homeopathic things, and I had them both with no painkillers.
Jasmine Guinness
Took
Kids
Both
Had
Lot
Them
Things
I liked stuff like 'Halloween,' but I wasn't a horror fanatic until I was in my 30s and then made 'Paranormal Activity.' Now, having a company, I can't imagine doing anything else. But it took me a while to find my love for it.
Jason Blum
Love
Me
Halloween
Made
Else
Took
Find
Paranormal
Horror
Having
Stuff
Like
Liked
Until
Doing
Anything
Fanatic
Anything Else
While
Then
Company
Activity
Now
Imagine
I honestly thought I was going to win a major championship quicker than what I did, but it clearly took a little bit longer than expected.
Jason Day
Win
Thought
Honestly
Took
Bit
Clearly
Longer
Major
Quicker
Than
Expected
Did
Going
Little
Little Bit
Championship
I got into shape because I took kick-boxing lessons every day to prepare for a fight scene with Taylor Lautner. I really wanted to lie down and eat Chinese food, but I kick-boxed every morning and ran. If someone was filming you with your kit off, you'd do the same thing.
Jason Isaacs
Food
Day
Morning
You
Fight
Every Day
Lie
Same Thing
Down
Every
Took
Ran
Eat
Someone
Scene
Kit
Shape
Because
Got
Off
Same
Wanted
Chinese
Chinese Food
Really
Taylor
Fight Scene
Your
Lessons
Prepare
Thing
Filming
When I was writing 'Southeastern,' I'd just recently gotten sober. For me, that was a major turning point in my life. It changed things I did on a day-to-day basis. My whole routine was upended. It took me some time to get used to that and figure out how do I keep myself entertained.
Jason Isbell
Life
Time
Myself
Me
Writing
My Life
Changed
Took
Out
Entertained
Some
Point
Day-To-Day
Major
How
Gotten
Get
Did
Just
Sober
Turning
Turning Point
Used
Figure
Whole
Keep
Routine
Things
Basis
Recently
I took a job at the Walt Disney Company and after 18 months decided to go to business school at Harvard. I was awestruck by the campus. My first reaction was 'I don't belong here.' Then I said, 'I'm here; let's get on with it.'
Jason Kilar
Business
School
Job
First
Took
Months
Harvard
Reaction
Said
Go
Campus
Get
Walt
Walt Disney
After
Decided
Then
Disney
Business School
Company
Belong
Here
You know how many movies it took Tom Cruise before he was making 5, 6 million dollars? It probably took a billion dollars in box office.
Jason Patric
You
Before
Took
He
Cruise
Know
Box
Box Office
How
Making
Dollars
Office
Movies
Billion
Billion Dollars
Many
Tom
Tom Cruise
Million
Million Dollars
I'm not letting him write anything. I didn't do anything. I just took his pen.
Jason Williams
Took
Pen
Write
Him
His
Just
Anything
Letting
I took one film class at NYU over a summer and learned the basics - you know, how to load a camera and how to light and how to edit - and I became a film editor.
Jay Chandrasekhar
You
Class
Light
Took
Summer
Over
Know
Learned
Became
Edit
Editor
How
Camera
Film
NYU
Load
Basics
My beliefs and my faith are part of who I am, and I'm so grateful that I had the foundation laid early on. My mom took me to church from my earliest memories, so I'm grateful to have had that foundation laid early, and it's just part of who I am.
Jay DeMarcus
Faith
Mom
Me
Memories
Grateful
Church
Took
Had
Part
Am
Just
Laid
Who
Beliefs
Foundation
Earliest
Earliest Memories
Early
I love being able to go on local flights when the weather is right. I've popped to the Isle of Wight, Cornwall and been mountain flying in Wales. When I got my licence I was over the moon, it was one of the greatest days of my life - it took two years to get!
Jay Kay
Life
Love
Moon
Weather
My Life
Cornwall
Took
Local
Flying
Licence
Able
Over
Days
Greatest
Isle
Got
Go
Been
Years
Wales
Mountain
Get
Being
Flights
Right
Two
Jesus discouraged the accumulation of wealth, worried about its effects on those who had it, and took special pleasure in helping the poor, dedicating his efforts to them. He must have shaken his head at the large gaps between rich and poor throughout ancient Palestine in the first century.
Jay Parini
Wealth
First
Discouraged
Rich
Took
Worried
Pleasure
Those
Ancient
Must
About
Shaken
Throughout
Had
He
Head
Between
His
Effects
Accumulate
Efforts
Them
Poor
Century
Dedicating
Special
Who
Large
Helping
Gaps
Palestine
Jesus
I took it upon myself to give back to my 'hood.
Jay Rock
Myself
Took
Back
Hood
Give
I just fell in love with the music, man. The music just took control. It really saved my life.
Jay Rock
Life
Love
Music
Man
My Life
Control
Saved
Took
Fell
Just
Really
For my 16th birthday, my family took me to L'Auberge de L'Ill, which was family-run but had three Michelin stars. It was a revelation. After that meal, I realised this is what I want to do.
Jean-Georges Vongerichten
Birthday
Family
Me
Three
Meal
Stars
Took
Had
Revelation
Want
After
Realised
Which
My family moved from Massachusetts to Maryland after my sophomore year of high school, and that's when I got the audition for 'Uncle Buck.' I took the train into New York, and I think I did the test with John Candy. Then I got the part, and it was my first movie and my first screen anything.
Jean Louisa Kelly
Family
School
Uncle
First
Year
Think
Took
High
John
High School
Maryland
Buck
Part
New
Massachusetts
Sophomore
Sophomore Year
Got
Audition
Test
Train
Did
York
Moved
New York
Candy
Screen
Movie
After
Anything
Then
I took pleasure when I could. I acted clearly and morally and without regret. I'm very lucky.
Jeanne Calment
Regret
Took
Pleasure
Morally
Could
Clearly
Without
Very
Acted
Lucky
Getting Richard Norris his new face wasn't easy. For starters, doctors needed a donor who wasn't just a favorable blood match but also had the proper skeletal features and skin color - they calculated only a 14 percent chance they'd find one. Then there was the epic surgery that took a team of 150 people.
Jeanne Marie Laskas
People
Face
Doctors
Skin
Took
Favorable
Easy
Find
Percent
Proper
Only
Features
Color
Had
New
Calculated
Also
Match
Surgery
His
Blood
Getting
Donor
Just
Epic
Richard
Then
Skin Color
Team
Who
Starters
Chance
Needed
Once I became the editor of the school newspaper, I had a key to the school, and I went to the school cafeteria and just took the food they threw away.
Jeannette Walls
Food
Key
School
Took
Once
Threw
Had
Became
Editor
Just
Newspaper
Away
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