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We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail.
Greil Marcus
Old
Trapped
Fail
New
Make
Stories
Succeed
Oldest
So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.
Henry Louis Gates
History
People
Made
Trapped
Purgatory
Color
Major
Been
American
Contributions
So Many People
American History
Who
Many
My father lost an eye to a snapped cable while trying to rescue trapped miners, though he kept on working for fifteen years afterward.
Homer Hickam
Father
Lost
Trapped
Miners
Though
Eye
Cable
He
Years
Snapped
Trying
Afterwards
While
Fifteen
Working
Rescue
Kept
English people are so trapped in this class paradigm.
Jackson Browne
Class
People
Trapped
Paradigm
English
English People
Work has become like prison because of the way we treat it. If you are trapped with people who you do not care for, it feels like a concentration camp.
Jaggi Vasudev
Work
You
People
Treat
Care
Become
Prison
Trapped
Way
Feels
Like
Concentration
Because
Camp
Who
What I'd like to say is that I think the lives of every one of these little kids who are trapped in these unsafe and failing schools are too important, and I'm willing to take the abuse in order to help them.
James R. Leininger
Important
Trapped
Every
Think
Too
Say
Kids
Willing
Unsafe
Take
Failing
Abuse
Like
Schools
Order
Little
Them
Little Kids
Help
Who
Lives
I've always been a clown trapped in a leading man's body.
James Van Der Beek
Man
Clown
Trapped
Leading
Always
Been
Body
I'm not going to normally get hired to play those emotional things, and I'm capable of it. I was raised by a single mother in Iowa - I'm just trapped in a big, dumb body.
Jason Momoa
Mother
Single
Big
Trapped
Those
Emotional
Iowa
Single Mother
Hired
Dumb
Normally
Get
Going
Just
Capable
Body
Play
Things
Raised
Ever since I could form coherent thoughts, I knew I was a girl trapped inside a boy's body. There was never any confusion in my mind. The confusing part was why no one else could see what was wrong.
Jazz Jennings
Thoughts
Confusion
Mind
Girl
Trapped
Else
Inside
See
Could
Never
No-One
Part
Knew
Wrong
Since
Boy
Any
Form
Confusing
Body
Why
Ever
Coherent
Something about her eyes or voice has always suggested the hint of a free spirit, trapped in a Peck and Peck cage, dreaming of making rude noises at public gatherings of Republicans.
Jeff Greenfield
Eyes
Rude
Free
Trapped
Gatherings
Dreaming
Spirit
About
Something
Voice
Free Spirit
Cage
Noises
Always
Hint
Making
Public
Republicans
Her
Suggested
People find themselves in ruts all the time. You're in a complacent lifestyle where you work 9 to 5 and then you add a mortgage and kids. You feel trapped, but guess what, brother? You constructed that life. If you're OK with it, there's nothing wrong with that. But if you've got unease, then you've got to make a change.
Jeremy Renner
Life
Work
Time
You
Change
People
Nothing
Trapped
Add
Complacent
Guess
OK
Kids
Find
Brother
Constructed
Ruts
Lifestyle
Wrong
Feel
Mortgage
Make
Got
Unease
Where
Themselves
Then
Shaking's one of the oldest practices known to man. Standing round a fire and connecting with the Earth and moving energy through the body because it's where a lot of our stuff can get trapped.
Jerome Flynn
Man
Fire
Energy
Trapped
Our
Earth
Shaking
Through
Stuff
Known
Because
Practices
Lot
Get
Where
Moving
Body
Standing
Connecting
Round
Oldest
Getting trapped back in the '80s, it's almost like a comic nightmare, which for me is a very real nightmare. Every time I flip through the cable, I have flashbacks.
John Cusack
Time
Me
Trapped
Every
Every Time
Back
Through
Cable
Almost
Like
Comic
Real
Very
Getting
Which
Flip
Nightmare
I love the movies. Everyone always says the same thing about the shared cultural experience, seeing things on the big screen, the church of the cinema... But on top of all that, as a filmmaker, I love having people be trapped in a movie theater, forcing them to watch what I made.
Jon Watts
Love
Experience
People
Cinema
Church
Made
Big
Forcing
Same Thing
Trapped
Everyone
Top
Says
Seeing
About
Having
Shared
Always
Cultural
Same
Big Screen
Screen
Movie
Theater
Movie Theater
Movies
Them
Thing
Things
Watch
Filmmaker
The whole New Kids thing was crazy. The more it grew, the more I just felt like I was trapped.
Jonathan Knight
Crazy
Trapped
Kids
More
New
Like
Felt
Just
Grew
Whole
Thing
I was like a Borscht Belt comedian trapped in the body of a 6-year-old. I was channeling Jackie Mason at 7.
Josh Gad
Trapped
Channeling
Mason
Like
Comedian
Jackie
Body
Belt
The truth is that for those 86 long years when the Red Sox went without a World Series win, fans were not only in a recession, but trapped in a longstanding, deeply entrenched sports depression.
Julianna Baggott
Depression
Truth
Sports
Truth Is
World
Win
Fans
Long
Trapped
Recession
Those
Only
Entrenched
Red
Red Sox
Without
Were
Years
Sox
Series
Deeply
World Series
I call it 'The Breakfast Club' philosophy. There's something about being trapped in a dire situation with a group of people that you would never normally be trapped with.
Julie Plec
You
People
Situation
Breakfast
Club
Trapped
Group
Philosophy
Would
Dire
About
Something
Never
Call
Normally
Being
Giving shape to a painful experience is powerful because it helps us to see, first, how we got through it; second, how we can share it. The experience doesn't stay trapped within us, unspoken, curdling - instead, the art of arranging and transforming it reduces the burden. It no longer belongs to only you.
Karen Bender
Art
You
Experience
Burden
Giving
First
Trapped
Stay
See
Only
Through
Shape
Share
Instead
Unspoken
Powerful
Longer
Because
Within
Got
How
Arranging
Transforming
Us
Painful
Helps
Second
Belongs
Sometimes when I'm going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out and see all these people staring, and you turn around and there's, like, 40 people all looking at you... and when you go around the corner, they're all following you! You start freaking out like a trapped animal.
Kate Bush
You
Animal
People
Sometimes
Coffee
Looking
Trapped
Corner
Out
Freaked
See
Following
Supermarket
Cat
Like
Around
Go
Get
Going
Litter
Turn
Staring
Start
It's incredible to me that any two individual minds, trapped in their skulls and bodies and histories and unique experiences, are able to reach across the void between them and touch at all.
Ken Liu
Me
Trapped
Incredible
Minds
Able
Touch
Void
Individual
Between
Reach
Histories
Any
Experiences
Them
Bodies
Across
Unique
Two
A lot of times, we are trapped by our own false sense of security. You can do whatever it is you put your mind to. Your goal is to find your purpose.
Kenny Leon
You
Mind
Whatever
Own
Sense
Trapped
Our
Security
Find
Purpose
Put
Goal
False
False Sense
Lot
Times
Your
I was fascinated by making a submarine movie, inspired by the Kursk disaster. This idea of being trapped down at the bottom of the sea seemed so terrifying. I was very interested in making a sub film which wasn't a military film. You think, Well, why are they there, then, if they're not in the military? Oh, well, they must be looking for treasure.
Kevin Macdonald
You
Looking
Down
Military
Trapped
Think
Must
Seemed
Inspired
Bottom
Idea
Disaster
Well
Terrifying
Making
Submarine
Very
Oh
Being
Movie
Which
Interested
Then
Sea
Fascinated
Film
Why
Treasure
I already hated that gray suit and then having to go through putting on that wig with a false front - again made me feel so trapped inside this person who was desperately wanting to break out of it but she was so caught up in the web of deception that she couldn't.
Kim Novak
Me
Made
Trapped
Wig
Desperately
Out
Hated
Inside
Web
Having
Through
Putting
Feel
She
Caught
Go
False
Up
Person
Front
Deception
Wanting
Break
Again
Then
Who
Gray
Suit
I watched Westerns from the time I was a girl. My dad was a big Western fan. I always loved Clint Eastwood movies and 'Westworld', where the guy gets trapped in a western-themed amusement park. The western motif was fascinating to me.
Kimberly Elise
Time
Me
Girl
Big
Trapped
Eastwood
Guy
Park
Always
Clint
Clint Eastwood
Western
Westerns
Gets
Where
Fan
Loved
Movies
Fascinating
Dad
Watched
Amusement
Even though I have spent literally years of my life trying to learn another language, any other language - and even though I have in the past claimed in several key professional contexts that I speak other languages - I am in fact still trapped inside the bubble of English.
Lev Grossman
Life
Speak
Key
Language
My Life
Past
Trapped
Other
Several
Spent
Claimed
Though
Inside
Fact
Bubble
Learn
Another
Am
Still
Years
Trying
Any
In Fact
Literally
In The Past
Languages
English
Professional
Even
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