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Acting was always something fun to do on the side growing up, but I never really took it seriously. I would do a commercial every few months, and that paid my school tuition. But in high school, I was mostly into sports and didn't go out for stuff during those seasons.
Jeremy Howard
Sports
School
Seriously
Few
Every
Side
Took
Months
Those
Out
High
Would
High School
Something
Something Fun
Never
Stuff
Mostly
Always
Go
Up
Commercial
Tuition
Really
Acting
Paid
Fun
Growing
Growing Up
Seasons
I speak Mandarin and can read and write a little. I took a few classes at Harvard to get better in my reading and writing skills.
Jeremy Lin
Writing
Speak
Better
Reading
Few
Took
Harvard
Classes
Write
Read
Get
Little
Skills
The position I took at the time was that we hadn't really examined any of the potential environmental consequences of introducing genetically modified organisms.
Jeremy Rifkin
Environmental
Time
Consequences
Took
Introducing
Examined
Potential
Genetically
Any
Modified
Really
Organisms
Position
When Yelp first took off, our rankings on Google would fluctuate wildly.
Jeremy Stoppelman
First
Google
Fluctuate
Took
Our
Wildly
Would
Off
I've had three injuries, and one took from 2016 to 2017 for me to recover. Three months I was out because I wasn't perfect, and I lost a lot of games for this injury.
Jerome Boateng
Me
Three
Lost
Took
Months
Out
Perfect
Recover
Had
Because
Lot
Games
Injuries
Injury
My mother was asked to be a model when she was younger, but my father had not let her, so she was quite keen on me becoming a model. I just went off without telling my dad. I took off to Paris and never came back, but when I became a success and started making money, he was very proud of me.
Jerry Hall
Success
Me
Money
Mother
Father
Took
Back
Telling
Paris
Never
Had
He
She
Became
Without
Becoming
Proud
Making
Making Money
Came
Off
Very
Model
Quite
Just
Younger
Asked
Dad
Keen
Her
Started
'Hound Dog' took like twelve minutes. That's not a complicated piece of work. But the rhyme scheme was difficult. Also the metric structure of the music was not easy. 'Kansas City' was maybe eight minutes, if that. Writing the early blues was spontaneous. You can hear the energy in the work.
Jerry Leiber
Work
Music
You
Writing
Dog
Complicated
Energy
Difficult
Took
City
Easy
Minutes
Structure
Scheme
Hound
Like
Spontaneous
Piece
Also
Hear
Metric
Maybe
Blues
Eight
Rhyme
Kansas
Kansas City
Twelve
Early
Pictures artists staged their own images or copied or cut out others already in existence. The viewer took them in separately, in sometimes paradoxical waves: an original image, then the manipulations of it, then the places where image and idea intersected. This created a crucial perceptual glitch that irony and understanding filled.
Jerry Saltz
Sometimes
Understanding
Own
Others
Took
Waves
Out
Paradoxical
Perceptual
Crucial
Idea
Pictures
Existence
Irony
Artists
Where
Staged
Places
Them
Cut
Then
Created
Separately
Viewer
Original
Filled
Copied
Image
Images
I'm remembering one book that I wrote, 'Fourth Grade Rats,' that took a month to write, but most of them, full-length novels, I would say about a year.
Jerry Spinelli
Book
Year
Took
Month
Say
One Book
Would
About
About A Year
Rats
Write
Remembering
Most
Wrote
Grade
Them
Novels
Fourth
I never took creative writing.
Jesse Andrews
Creative
Writing
Took
Never
Creative Writing
All I watch is the Food Network. I took a cheesemaking class a few weeks ago, and I told my family and friends to only get me kitchen stuff on my birthday. I'm into every kind of cookbook and anything by Anthony Bourdain. I'd love to own a restaurant if I could find the right chef.
Jesse McCartney
Love
Food
Birthday
Family
Me
Class
Few
Own
Every
Took
Kind
Find
Restaurant
Network
Only
Food Network
Kitchen
Could
Weeks
Stuff
Chef
Friends
Family And Friends
Get
Anything
If I Could
Cookbook
Right
Watch
I didn't really start doing stuff until I was 8 or so, but I was an extra in a bunch of different movies, and I just really took to it and really enjoyed it. I kind of bugged my parents to give L.A. a shot, and they were just super-supportive.
Jesse Plemons
Parents
Extra
Took
Kind
Give
Stuff
Until
Bugged
Doing
Were
Bunch
Just
Different
Movies
Shot
Really
Enjoyed
Start
I'm a Slovak. And when I was growing up, I believed that I was Czechoslovakian because of what Russia did. They came in and took two separate countries - Slovakia and the Czech Republic - put them together as one.
Jesse Ventura
Together
Took
Slovakia
Russia
Put
Countries
Because
Came
Up
Did
Republic
Them
Separate
Czech
Czech Republic
Growing
Growing Up
Believed
Two
I just thank the people who took part in our graduated drivers task force, who came with their thoughts and ideas as to how we can best keep our roads safe, and it has paid off.
Jesse White
Best
Thoughts
People
Took
Our
Drivers
Part
Roads
Ideas
Safe
Force
How
Came
Off
Thank
Task
Task Force
Graduated
Just
Paid
Who
Keep
It took me many years to figure out how to structure a compelling story.
Jessica Abel
Me
Took
Out
Structure
How
Years
Story
Figure
Many
Compelling
My Barbies were usually naked. Once, I took their heads off, cut their hair, drew on their short, spiky hair with some markers, then stuck the heads on Christmas lights. Every year, we'd string our tree with those Barbie heads. It looked demonic. My parents were so cool - they saw it as a form of self-expression.
Jessica Biel
Christmas
Parents
Hair
Naked
Year
Every
Tree
Took
Markers
Our
Once
Saw
String
Those
Some
Drew
Stuck
Lights
Heads
Looked
Self-Expression
Demonic
Were
Off
Short
Form
Cut
Barbie
Then
Cool
At 10, I was intrigued by surgery, I wanted to be a surgeon for a long time. I love doctor shows and surgery shows. Blood is not an issue for me. I even took pictures once of me getting my blood taken.
Jessica Biel
Love
Time
Me
Doctor
Surgeon
Long
Long Time
Took
Once
Intrigued
Taken
Pictures
Surgery
Issue
Blood
Getting
Wanted
Even
Shows
My grandmother was my inspiration. She was the person who took me to the theater and encouraged me to act, and she's the one who always believed in me.
Jessica Chastain
Me
Took
Inspiration
She
Always
Encouraged
Person
Theater
Grandmother
Act
Who
Believed
So much of my sense of who I am is tied to mothering. When they left home, I fell into a huge, empty, black hole. Your children are grown and your career has slowed down - all the stuff that took up so much attention is gone, and you're left with expansive time and space.
Jessica Lange
Time
Home
You
Space
Black
Sense
Gone
Down
Took
Black Hole
Attention
Stuff
Fell
Tied
Empty
Am
Time And Space
Huge
Left
Up
Expansive
Children
Hole
Much
Much Attention
Your
Who
Grown
Career
I must confess I took a couple or three jobs just for the money.
Jessica Walter
Money
Three
Took
Jobs
Must
Couple
Confess
Just
The highlight of my undergraduate years was a year-long Shakespeare course I took with Edward Tayler.
Jhumpa Lahiri
Took
Shakespeare
Highlight
Undergraduate
Course
Years
Edward
It took me a long time to even dare to envision myself as a writer. I was very uncertain and hesitant and afraid to pursue a creative life.
Jhumpa Lahiri
Life
Time
Myself
Me
Creative
Long
Long Time
Took
Hesitant
Dare
Uncertain
Pursue
Writer
Envision
Very
Afraid
Creative Life
Even
When I first took over the team in 2014, the message was, even if you're on the right track, if you sit there, you'll get run over.
Jill Ellis
You
Right Track
First
Sit
Took
Run
Over
Message
Track
Get
Team
Even
Right
I took a $40k pay cut to leave my technical copywriter job and work for $6k a year.
Jill Ellis
Work
Job
Year
Pay
Took
Leave
Cut
Technical
One thing that always frustrated me was that, while Benjamin Franklin's was the best-known face of the eighteenth century, no one ever took his sister's likeness.
Jill Lepore
Me
Face
Sister
Took
Franklin
One Thing
No-One
Likeness
Always
His
Eighteenth
Eighteenth Century
While
Frustrated
Century
Ever
Thing
My earliest influence was Quincy Jones. I thought 'The Wiz' soundtrack was the most amazing thing I'd ever heard. It was my first record and you had Michael Jackson, Ted Ross, Nipsey Russell and Diana Ross on it. I even took it to show and tell in third grade!
Jill Scott
You
Amazing
Thought
First
Took
Tell
Record
Russell
Had
Most
Most Amazing
Soundtrack
Diana
Diana Ross
Amazing Thing
Heard
Michael
Michael Jackson
Grade
Jackson
Influence
Show
Even
Ever
Thing
Earliest
Ted
Third
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