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I do think that television, in its early years, played a significant role in that standard-setting, enforcing a certain decency among people. They took their role seriously, and the people behind the camera took their role seriously, too.
John Seabrook
People
Seriously
Decency
Think
Too
Early Years
Took
Television
Significant
Camera
Years
Role
Behind
Certain
Enforcing
Among
Played
Early
I was a tried seaman when, for the first time, I set foot upon the soil of my country, and took up my residence where my people had lived for over two hundred years.
John Sergeant Wise
Time
People
Soil
First
Country
Took
Hundred
Hundred Years
Tried
Foot
Had
Over
First Time
Years
Up
Where
Seaman
Lived
Residence
Two
Set
When I was small, in the early '70s, my mother took me to see 'Cooley High.'
John Singleton
Me
Mother
Took
High
See
Small
Early
When I first started, I was kind of surprised that anyone would ever hire me at all. So I took everything that I was offered.
John Slattery
Me
First
Took
Everything
Kind
Would
Hire
Surprised
Offered
Anyone
Ever
Started
Muriel, my mother, was my main confidant. She was a teacher of English at Watford grammar school but took a break while my sister Madeleine and I were children. She held court in the kitchen, and we talked about everything.
John Sulston
Teacher
School
Mother
Sister
Took
Everything
About
Kitchen
Main
She
Talked
Court
Were
Confidant
Children
Break
Grammar
Grammar School
While
Held
English
I had a little teddy bear called Gordon the gopher. I took him to bed with me, he'd come to school with me cos he was my favourite.
John Terry
Me
School
Took
Favourite
Bear
Had
He
Come
Gordon
Him
Bed
Little
Teddy
I took the ET job because I wanted to stop traveling and they said I would only work half a day. Then I could work on music the rest of the day. They put in my contract that I wouldn't work after 1 P.M.
John Tesh
Work
Music
Day
Job
Rest
Half
Took
Would
Only
Could
Put
Because
Said
Contract
Stop
Wanted
After
Then
Traveling
For me, growing up in Detroit, scarves meant cold weather. But I remember working in a store, and we had some silk scarves - like, wide scarves with fringe - and because I had seen the English rockers wearing skinny silk scarves, I took the scarves, cut and sewed them, and made them long - almost like a tie.
John Varvatos
Me
Remember
Made
Weather
Long
Seen
Cold
Cold Weather
Took
Wearing
Some
Silk
Detroit
Had
Almost
Like
Tie
Because
Rockers
Up
Fringe
Store
Them
Cut
Working
Meant
Skinny
English
Growing
Growing Up
Wide
Somebody asked me - you know, how come it took you so long to win a national championship? And I said, 'I'm a slow learner; but you notice when I learn something, I have it down pretty good.'
John Wooden
Good
Me
You
Win
Slow
Somebody
Long
National
Down
Took
Pretty
Pretty Good
Something
Come
Know
Learn
Learner
Said
How
National Championship
Asked
Notice
Championship
The next wave of the social graph is empowering services like Airbnb and Lyft that give people the chance to have that physical interaction. People are more open to that because of Airbnb. Airbnb took couch surfing and took an additional step.
John Zimmer
People
Took
Wave
Additional
Airbnb
Physical
Give
More
Couch
Open
Step
Like
Empowering
Because
Surfing
Interaction
Social
Next
Graph
Services
Chance
When I was 16 or 17, anyone could have had me if they sang the right song and recruited me in the right way. Which is why I've always had a sneaking understanding for people who took the wrong route. That doesn't mean to say I took it or even contemplated it myself.
John le Carre
Myself
Me
People
Song
Understanding
Took
Way
Right Way
Say
Could
Had
Wrong
Contemplated
Always
Sneaking
Anyone
Which
Mean
Sang
Who
Even
Why
Route
Right
Every riff had to be perfect and heavy, collectively what we wanted it to be. If there was one person in the room who went, 'Heh, I don't think it is there yet, guys,' we'd scrap the whole song. I think that took a little bit of songwriting maturity for us.
Johnny Christ
Song
Maturity
Every
Think
Took
Bit
Collectively
Guys
Perfect
Had
Songwriting
Person
Scrap
Heavy
Wanted
Little
Little Bit
Room
Us
Who
Whole
Riff
It took me a long time to realize that to walk around without a certain amount of belief in myself, to walk onto a job with my tail between my legs, wasn't behooving anyone else.
Johnny Galecki
Time
Myself
Me
Walk
Job
Long
Long Time
Else
Took
Tail
Onto
Between
Around
Without
Anyone
Legs
Anyone Else
Realize
Certain
Belief
Amount
I was the sibling that kind of kept it all on a level when life at home got tough. I did it through comedy, sarcasm and distraction. All families are complicated, but my home life was glaringly uncomfortable much of the time, and it was me that took the onus.
Johnny Galecki
Life
Time
Home
Me
Complicated
Comedy
Tough
Took
Kind
Distraction
Through
Uncomfortable
Got
Families
Did
Much
Home Life
Sarcasm
Level
Kept
Sibling
It took 35 years, but the time was well spent and I think I have established a good stake in the future.
Johnny Olson
Future
Time
Good
Think
Took
Spent
Well
Well-Spent
Years
Established
Stake
I think after 1970 or so, after I sold Soul City, I took off for awhile and didn't do too many gigs.
Johnny Rivers
Soul
Think
Too
Took
Sold
Gigs
City
Off
After
Many
Awhile
I learned to yodel pretty well. It took me a few months, but I eventually perfected it.
Johnny Weissmuller
Me
Few
Took
Months
Pretty
Well
Learned
Eventually
It took me several years to figure out who I am and a few more to accept what I discovered. Now, I'm in the enjoyment stage of that process and it's a happy place.
Jolene Blalock
Me
Happy
Few
Stage
Took
Several
Out
More
Accept
Am
Years
Discovered
Process
Place
Figure
Who
Now
Enjoyment
I took a job in the U.S. because I wanted to work on products that would get into end users' hands. In Norway, most of the jobs are in server software, niche stuff.
Jon Johansen
Work
Job
Software
Took
Jobs
Would
Stuff
Most
Because
End
Get
Hands
Norway
Wanted
Products
Users
Niche
Server
The Beatles production is often so 'perfect' that it sounds computerized. 'Sgt. Pepper' really does sound like it took four months to make.
Jon Landau
Beatles
Took
Months
Pepper
Perfect
Computerized
Like
Make
Does
Sound
Sounds
Often
Really
Production
Four
At the moment we're trying to keep what we've learnt. Because we learnt a terrific amount with 'Deep Purple In Rock,' it took six months to make that album: we think it paid off, really. I can honestly say that it's the first album we've been 100 percent satisfied with; it gave us a hell of a lot of confidence.
Jon Lord
Confidence
First
Hell
Satisfied
Think
Honestly
Gave
Took
Months
Say
Percent
Purple
Make
Terrific
Because
Rock
Learnt
Been
Lot
Off
Trying
Six
Us
Really
Paid
Moment
Deep
Deep Purple
Keep
Amount
Album
I took tap classes growing up.
Jon M. Chu
Took
Classes
Tap
Up
Growing
Growing Up
'Swagger' would be the word for 'Dirt On My Boots.' With the real funky drum loop and the ganjo rolling down, and then the fiddles and the guitar and steel, it really took an old school style where it's fiddle, steel, guitar, and mixed it with a drum loop.
Jon Pardi
Guitar
School
Old
Word
Style
Down
Took
Boots
Would
Would-Be
Steel
Dirt
Drum
Loop
Real
Mixed
Rolling
Where
Swagger
Fiddle
Then
Really
Old School
Funky
When I was 20, I wrote a film on spec and sent it to the BBC. They wrote back, 'Usually, when we reject submissions, we like to offer some encouragement, but in your case, we don't see any point in you continuing.' I took it as encouragement anyway, thinking that only people who write terrible things are capable of writing great things.
Jon Ronson
Great
You
People
Writing
Great Things
Encouragement
Thinking
Took
Back
See
Some
Case
Only
Point
Write
Like
Wrote
Terrible
Continuing
Submissions
Offer
Any
Anyway
Sent
Capable
Your
Who
Film
Things
Reject
It was like falling off a building and suddenly, bang, you hit the bottom. The first time it happened was on an ordinary day at home. I was taking down some curtains. I took one step, turned around, took another step and then I fell and hit my head hard on the rowing machine.
Jonah Lomu
Time
Day
Home
You
First
Building
Down
Took
Machine
Some
Bottom
Step
Head
Taking
Like
Fell
Another
Around
First Time
Falling
Off
Hit
Bang
Happened
Curtains
Ordinary
Turned
Then
Hard
Suddenly
Rowing
When I started at Loewe, I took a year out before we did a collection because I felt we needed to work out all the fundamentals. The pencils, the door handles, the style of the press release, the stone of the buildings, the choice of photographer.
Jonathan Anderson
Work
Style
Year
Before
Took
Press
Release
Pencils
Out
Collection
Photographer
Because
Felt
Buildings
Did
Stone
Door
Work Out
Choice
Fundamentals
Started
Needed
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