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I took inspiration from one of my favorite movies, 'The Last Dragon,' along with my own personal thoughts and ideas.
Naomi
Thoughts
Own
Took
Favorite
Favorite Movies
My Own
Inspiration
Along
Ideas
Personal
Movies
Last
Dragon
Claude Cahun is a fascinating artist - one of the few women to be part of the surrealist movement, she and her partner Suzanne Malherbe took on men's names and made artworks that investigated female identity long before 'The Second Sex' or Cindy Sherman.
Naomi Alderman
Women
Sex
Made
Men
Long
Partner
Before
Few
Took
Cindy
Part
Names
She
Identity
Female
Surrealist
Few Women
Artist
Movement
Fascinating
Her
Second
Well, in brief, I was discovered by a lady called Beth Boldt. She had also been a model. She used to take pictures of the girls she found, and she took a picture of me one day in my school uniform, and it all kind of started from there.
Naomi Campbell
Day
Me
School
Girl
Picture
Took
One Day
Kind
Take
Had
Pictures
Also
She
Well
Been
Discovered
Model
Lady
Uniform
Used
Brief
Found
Started
As soon as you write about climate change, the first attempt to discredit you is, 'Well, you wrote this on a computer,' or, 'You took a plane to this conference.' So your opinion isn't valid.
Naomi Klein
You
Change
First
Took
Valid
About
Computer
Write
Attempt
Soon
Wrote
Well
Opinion
Climate
Climate Change
Discredit
Conference
Plane
Your
I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self left.
Naomi Watts
Funny
Me
Desperate
Too
Gave
Took
Everything
Those
Sexy
Self
Had
True
Trace
Because
True Self
Gotten
Truly
Left
Labels
Intense
Where
Place
Them
Believed
Somehow, Hindi movies never took me in the same way Hollywood films did. Even at the age of five or six, I could see the difference in the quality of execution.
Naseeruddin Shah
Me
Age
Quality
Films
Took
Way
See
Somehow
Could
Never
Execution
Hindi
Five
Did
Same
Six
Difference
Movies
Hollywood
Even
I was pretty young, but because of that first record, 'Cole Espanol,' we took our first trip - well, my first trip - to Mexico.
Natalie Cole
First
Young
Took
Our
Record
Pretty
Trip
Well
Because
Mexico
I first met my husband when I was 15. He was very cool, in a band, all that kind of thing, but he took a long time to grow up. Our paths crossed again 10 years later, and after about two weeks I knew that was it. I'm glad I met him when I did, even though I was fairly young. Because I think sometimes you can crystallise into singledom.
Natascha McElhone
Time
You
Sometimes
Husband
Long
Long Time
First
Met
Band
Young
Think
Took
Our
Later
Though
Kind
About
Crossed
Glad
Weeks
He
Knew
Fairly
Him
Because
Years
Up
Very
Did
Paths
After
Again
Cool
Even
Grow
Grow Up
Thing
Two
Two Weeks
It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.
Natasha Trethewey
Me
Before
Took
Finally
Write
Attempts
Failed
Wrote
Years
Drafts
Needed
If the jump is perfect, you come out, and you feel like you took a three-pointer in basketball or doing the perfect thing in whatever your sport is. You just get that adrenaline rush, a sense of satisfaction, like you want to do it again and again.
Nathan Chen
You
Whatever
Sense
Took
Out
Rush
Perfect
Adrenaline
Feel
Come
Like
Sport
Doing
Jump
Get
Just
Want
Again
Your
Satisfaction
Thing
Basketball
The thing that everyone remembers about 'Bambi' is that moment. 'The Lion King,' took it to quite an extreme because it was an action sequence: his father was killed in a wildebeest stampede - I related, because mine was, too.
Nathan Lane
Lion
Father
King
Action
Too
Related
Took
Everyone
Extreme
Mine
About
Remembers
Because
His
Bambi
Lion King
Quite
Sequence
Moment
Thing
I was born Joseph Lane, but when I applied to the actors union, they said they already had a Joe Lane on the books and I'd have to change my last or first name. I had played the character of Nathan Detroit, whom I liked very much, in 'Guys and Dolls,' so I took the name Nathan.
Nathan Lane
Character
Change
First
Took
Books
Joe
Born
Guys
Detroit
Had
Joseph
Name
Liked
First Name
Said
Dolls
Very
Much
Lane
Union
Whom
Actor
Played
Applied
Last
My father did not groom us for politics. I took the plunge because I wanted to carry on his work in his constituency.
Naveen Patnaik
Work
Politics
Father
Took
Carry
Plunge
Because
His
Did
Wanted
Us
Groom
I grew fond of acting rather late. And that was because I was not getting any job. I had a few friends in Delhi who were associated with theater. They took me to see some plays in Delhi and Baroda. That led me to believe the I could also act. And it was after that I joined National School of Drama in 1993.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
Me
School
Job
National
Few
Believe
Drama
Late
Took
See
Some
Fond
Delhi
Rather
Joined
Could
Had
Also
Because
Were
Led
Friends
Any
Getting
Grew
After
Theater
Act
Acting
Who
Associated
Plays
I thought 'UnSouled' would come in at around 400 pages, but it took 650 pages, and even then I felt like I was rushing the conclusion, so I asked my editor and publisher if I could divide it again. So a sequel became a trilogy, and the trilogy became a tetralogy - although we're not calling it that.
Neal Shusterman
Thought
Took
Would
Trilogy
Rushing
Divide
Could
Come
Like
Calling
Although
Became
Around
Felt
Conclusion
Editor
Again
Then
Asked
If I Could
Pages
Sequel
Even
Publisher
I instantly took the offer to judge 'Indian Idol' because I know the journey from being judged to judging on the same stage is going to be a memorable experience for me.
Neha Kakkar
Journey
Me
Experience
Judge
Stage
Took
Indian
Memorable
Instantly
Know
Judged
Because
Judging
Idol
Offer
Same
Going
Being
Being Judged
For Dad, service took him many unexpected places. It summoned him and his crew mates to the skies over the Pacific Ocean in World War II. It took him to Capitol Hill, Beijing and eventually the Oval Office.
Neil Bush
Service
War
World
Ocean
Crew
Took
Summoned
Oval
Oval Office
Over
Hill
Him
Mates
His
Office
Unexpected
Beijing
Pacific
Pacific Ocean
Places
Skies
Capitol
Capitol Hill
Many
Dad
Eventually
World War
World War II
I took two years away from making films to write a novel.
Neil Jordan
Films
Took
Write
Making
Years
Novel
Away
Two
When the Beatles came to America and took me off the map, I thought I would return the favor, and I moved the family to England!
Neil Sedaka
Family
Me
Beatles
Thought
Took
Favor
Would
Return
Came
Off
America
Moved
England
Map
I took upon myself to enact the part of a poor, unfortunate crazy girl, and felt it my duty not to shirk any of the disagreeable results that should follow.
Nellie Bly
Myself
Crazy
Girl
Duty
Took
Follow
Results
Disagreeable
Part
Felt
Enact
Shirk
Any
Unfortunate
Poor
Should
I don't think I would have made for a good doctor. It was not meant to be, and it took me a long time to realize that.
Neri Oxman
Time
Good
Me
Doctor
Made
Long
Long Time
Think
Took
Would
Realize
Meant
Meant To Be
I got active in this business of politics and self-government in 1958 when my father, who was serving in the U.S. Army, took us to the battlefield of Verdun.
Newt Gingrich
Politics
Business
Army
Father
Active
Took
Battlefield
Self-Government
Got
Us
Who
Serving
Me finding my confidence took me a while, but now I love that I went through everything I did before to get to where I am now.
Nia Jax
Love
Me
Confidence
Before
Took
Everything
Finding
Through
Am
Get
Did
Where
While
Now
I took a gap year myself after high school and worked on a farm near Lyon, France. I stayed with the Vallet family, picked and packed fruit, and discovered that red wine can be a breakfast drink. That led to further travel as a university student.
Nicholas Kristof
Myself
Family
Travel
Fruit
School
Wine
Year
Breakfast
Farm
Took
France
Further
High
Stayed
High School
Drink
Student
Picked
Red
Red Wine
Discovered
Led
After
Packed
Worked
Gap
Near
University
'An Education' was a complicated piece of work because it came from a tiny essay, so it took me a while to find the story I wanted to tell and the characters I wanted to tell it about. That really only emerged after four or five drafts.
Nick Hornby
Work
Education
Me
Complicated
Took
Tell
Characters
Find
Emerged
About
Only
Piece
Because
Came
Five
Essay
Tiny
Wanted
After
Story
While
Really
Four
Drafts
All the Oscars stuff for 'An Education' was incredibly exciting, especially because it was such an underdog project - no one would give us the money for it, and we all nearly gave up because it wasn't getting anywhere, then suddenly a breakthrough and this really lovely film, which then took on a life of its own.
Nick Hornby
Life
Education
Money
Own
Gave
Incredibly
Took
Project
Would
Give
No-One
Exciting
Stuff
Underdog
Because
Up
Getting
Lovely
Which
Anywhere
Breakthrough
Then
Us
Really
Suddenly
Film
Nearly
Oscars
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