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What I try to do is that when I'm at home, I'm at home. We're working hard at putting away our devices and not taking calls. Sometimes, you have to, but I'll say, 'Look guys, I've got to take this call, but when I'm done, I'm all yours. I just need 20 minutes.'
Al Roker
Home
You
Sometimes
Try
Our
Say
Minutes
Guys
Take
Taking
Putting
Devices
Look
Call
Calls
Got
Done
Just
Working
Working Hard
Hard
Yours
Away
Need
On the East Coast, people try to make life interesting. On the West Coast, they try to make it comfortable. The emphasis here is on fancy cars, how one looks, less on the mind per se.
Al Seckel
Life
People
Try
Car
Mind
East
East Coast
Per
Emphasis
Looks
Make
Comfortable
How
West
West Coast
Fancy
Interesting
Coast
Less
Here
I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I'll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points, and then I'll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.
Al Yankovic
Try
Down
Think
Way
Tell
Would
Anecdotes
Write
Points
Ideas
Parts
Edit
Arrange
Story
Storyline
Notebook
Them
Then
Full
Help
Amusing
I guess my overall life plan is to think about issues that concern me and try to use culture generally to make sense of them. I'm more worried that I'm going to die before I've had time.
Alain de Botton
Life
Time
Me
Culture
Try
Before
Sense
Think
Guess
Worried
About
More
Generally
Had
Overall
Concern
Make
Issues
Die
Going
Them
Plan
Use
My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
Alan Alda
Mother
Try
Father
Signs
Before
Must
Until
She
Six
Shown
What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing. When I'm writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
Alan Alda
Good
Writing
Try
Seen
Writer
Good Writer
Always
Doing
Get
Want
Wanted
Good Actor
Acting
Actor
What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing. When I'm writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer. Not as somebody with a particular idea to sell, or something like that.
Alan Alda
Good
Writing
Try
Somebody
Seen
Something
Writer
Good Writer
Idea
Particular
Like
Always
Doing
Sell
Get
Want
Wanted
Good Actor
Acting
Actor
Everybody's career has ups and downs. I like to take chances; I don't like to stand still. And I don't give a damn what the market is interested in; I want to try things.
Alan Arkin
Try
Ups And Downs
Damn
Everybody
Market
Give
Take
Like
Still
Ups
Want
Interested
Stand
Downs
Things
Career
Chances
I don't sense that I am someone's hero, though I'm happy when people like my work. I've learned how to be gracious about it, but I try to let it go by. I've seen how, if people start taking on those accolades, it can ruin them completely.
Alan Arkin
Work
Happy
People
Try
Hero
Seen
Sense
Ruin
Those
Though
About
Someone
Taking
Like
Learned
How
Am
Accolades
Go
Gracious
Them
Start
No film should try to follow a trend, and do what film people think the public wants. There's no such thing as knowing what the public wants.
Alan Bates
People
Try
Trend
Think
Follow
Knowing
Wants
Public
Should
Film
Thing
I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
Alan Bennett
Try
Mind
Resolve
Out
About
Write
Root
Things
Plays
I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes. Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.
Alan Dean Foster
Time
Business
World
Try
First
Year
Purposes
Con
Make
First Time
Go
Decades
May
Convention
Again
Fantasy
Last
Two
Last Year
I've learned never to try and force words to come.
Alan Garner
Words
Try
Never
Come
Force
Learned
I try to keep my promises.
Alan Grayson
Try
Promises
Keep
I've hardly had an avant-garde career... If you're going to make a film, you have to try to make sure it comes out of a childlike passion, as if you're doing it for the first time.
Alan J. Pakula
Time
You
Passion
Try
First
Out
Had
Make
Sure
First Time
Doing
Going
Childlike
Avant-Garde
Film
Hardly
Career
For a while now, I try to ignore the hoopla, because if you buy into that, you have to buy into the criticism. All you can do is put your work out there and move on; you just never know what will come.
Alan Menken
Work
Buy
You
Try
Will
Criticism
Move On
Out
Never
Put
Come
Know
Because
Move
Just
While
Work Out
Your
Ignore
Now
Way back in the day, when I first started and had delusions of adequacy as a cartoonist, I would listen to music. When I switched to a career as a writer, I would try to listen to music, but if the songs had lyrics they would get in the way of the words I was trying to write. So I switched to listening to purely instrumental pieces.
Alan Moore
Music
Day
Words
Try
Listening
First
Back
Lyrics
Way
Adequacy
Would
Cartoonist
Purely
Write
Writer
Had
Songs
Delusions
Pieces
Instrumental
Get
Trying
Listen
Switched
Started
Career
I try to do things in comics that cannot be repeated by television, by movies, by interactive entertainment.
Alan Moore
Entertainment
Try
Television
Comics
Repeated
Interactive
Cannot
Movies
Things
On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable.
Alan Moore
Writing
Try
Occasion
Did
Just
Where
Rewriting
Screenplay
Found
I moved from Chicago to New York in 1984 for 'Biloxi Blues.' In 1989, my wife and our then-baby daughter moved to Los Angeles to try to get in television.
Alan Ruck
Try
Wife
Daughter
Our
Television
Angeles
New
Los
Los Angeles
Chicago
Get
York
Moved
New York
Blues
I don't know what I believe in. I try not to think about it. I don't want to think about it.
Alan Shearer
Try
Believe
Think
About
Know
Want
We look for opportunities to play together including basketball, tennis, swimming, riding bikes and touch football. I try to provide a loving environment where we can play. I think that's good on so many levels - emotionally, for family interactions and, of course, physically.
Alan Thicke
Good
Family
Together
Opportunities
Try
Swimming
Think
Touch
Physically
Tennis
Football
Emotionally
Environment
Look
Course
Provide
Where
Interactions
Loving
Bikes
Many
Many Levels
Including
Riding
Play
Levels
Basketball
One of the biggest challenges of writing for middle-grade or even young-adult readers is that I don't want to have too much violence in it - which really limits what you can do. It's important that they're not just bloodbaths or glorifying violence. I always try to show that a person who dies leaves a hole. There's grief in my books.
Alane Ferguson
You
Challenges
Grief
Writing
Try
Too Much
Important
Too
Books
Readers
Glorifying
Always
Limits
Leaves
Person
Dies
Just
Want
Biggest
Biggest Challenges
Hole
Which
Much
Really
Show
Who
Even
Violence
By asking the question 'Am I happy?,' and via the answer setting out what I mean by happiness, there is a political route that can be taken, by asking another question - 'Can politics deliver happiness, and should it try?'
Alastair Campbell
Happiness
Politics
Happy
Political
Try
Setting
Out
Deliver
Taken
Another
Answer
Am
Question
Via
Mean
Asking
Should
Route
Like everyone else, I read newspapers and 'New Scientist' and try to put my finger on the trends which we can just see emerging now that are accelerating and might take off.
Alastair Reynolds
Try
Else
Everyone
Everyone Else
Trends
See
Finger
Emerging
Take
Put
New
Like
Accelerate
Read
Scientist
Off
Just
Which
Might
Newspapers
Now
No idea should be discarded completely, but - as one might imagine - it does take a degree of ingenuity to find a new spin on something as hackneyed as the 'Adam and Eve' story. But if you think you've got the chops for it, there's no reason not to try.
Alastair Reynolds
You
Try
Degree
Think
Find
Spin
No Idea
Something
No Reason
Take
Idea
New
Discarded
Does
Got
Story
Might
Ingenuity
Should
Reason
Chops
Eve
Adam
Adam And Eve
Imagine
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