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I am always trying to put myself inside: Every dress I do, I think, 'If I were a woman, would I wear it?'
Alber Elbaz
Myself
Woman
Every
Think
Would
Inside
Wear
Dress
Put
Always
Am
Were
Trying
Most entertainment is trying to get you. It's tested, like toothpaste.
Albert Brooks
You
Entertainment
Toothpaste
Like
Most
Tested
Get
Trying
The people on this planet that are trying to live their life, that aren't trying to destroy things, are in the 99.9-percent majority.
Albert Brooks
Life
People
Live
Destroy
Majority
Trying
Planet
Things
You do the best you can, looking at precedent, in trying to anticipate where the Supreme Court is going to draw the balance between the protection of civil liberties and protecting the national security, and in some cases, we guessed wrong.
Alberto Gonzales
Best
You
Balance
Protection
Looking
National
Draw
Liberties
Security
Civil
Civil Liberties
Some
Cases
Wrong
Between
Protecting
Supreme
Supreme Court
Court
Anticipate
Precedent
Trying
National Security
Going
Where
Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.
Alberto Moravia
Good
Problem
Monotonous
Composers
Born
Perfect
Writers
Like
Understand
Were
Trying
Keep
Leaving southern Sudan as a child was terrifying. It was 1985, and my family and I were trying to escape to Khartoum, the capital in the North, to safety.
Alek Wek
Family
Safety
Terrifying
Leaving
Were
Escape
Southern
North
Child
Trying
Capital
Sudan
When I was shopping around trying to get signed, I made it a point to say, 'This is who I am.' I dress the way I normally dress, and I just wanted to find a label that would accept me for that.
Alessia Cara
Me
Shopping
Made
Way
Say
Signed
Would
Find
Dress
Point
Accept
Around
Am
Label
Normally
Get
Trying
Just
Wanted
Who
For the better part of my life, I was always trying to manufacture somehow what I would consider 'living.' Because I grew up sort of upper-middle class and I didn't relate so much to that as a life, and I wanted to really find 'living.'
Alex Ebert
Life
Class
Better
My Life
Living
Relate
Consider
Would
Find
Somehow
Part
Sort
Because
Always
Up
Trying
Wanted
Grew
Much
Really
Manufacture
For someone making a pilot, assuming the talent is there and you can maneuver the system properly, it's just a matter of standing your ground and trying to make something great until you are making enough money for the studio that they let you keep making it.
Alex Graves
Great
You
Money
Pilot
Matter
Assuming
Enough
Enough Money
System
Someone
Something
Properly
Studio
Talent
Until
Make
Making
Trying
Just
Maneuver
Your
Ground
Standing
Keep
He was always - I like to say of Malcolm - he was just simply electrical. Everything he did almost was dramatic, and it wasn't that he was trying to be: it was just the nature of him.
Alex Haley
Nature
Dramatic
Everything
Say
He
Simply
Almost
Like
Him
Always
Malcolm
Trying
Did
Just
Electrical
I make a fair amount of my food choices for environmental-type reasons than nutrition or taste. I'm trying to minimize impact, which is something most people don't necessarily think about when they're shopping.
Alex Honnold
Food
People
Shopping
Think
Nutrition
Minimize
Impact
About
Something
Fair
Fair Amount
Most
Make
Than
Trying
Taste
Which
Choices
Reasons
Amount
Necessarily
My mum made me do kick-ups in the living room. My sister even tried to play football. Everyone was trying to help me.
Alex Iwobi
Me
Made
Sister
Living
Everyone
Tried
Football
Trying
Room
Help
Even
Mum
Play
Play Football
Living Room
When I was younger I just played football for the fun of it, scoring the maddest goals and trying to come up with new tricks but when you've got to take yourself into a proper match, you've got be serious.
Alex Iwobi
You
Yourself
Goals
Tricks
Proper
Take
Football
New
Come
Match
Got
Scoring
Up
Trying
Just
Younger
Fun
Serious
Played
'I Am Number Four' is a great story about a guy who's trying to find his destiny and figure out who he is and his identity.
Alex Pettyfer
Great
Destiny
Out
Find
About
Guy
He
Great Story
Identity
Am
His
Trying
Story
Figure
Who
Four
Number
We don't really compare ourselves to the men's game or what they do. For us, it's about trying to get more people involved in the women's games.
Alex Scott
Game
Women
People
Men
Ourselves
About
More
More People
Involved
Get
Trying
Us
Really
Games
Compare
The first one is your first World Cup, so you go into it with a lot of pressure, trying to take it all in, but you are just so focused.
Alex Scott
You
World
Pressure
First
Focused
Take
First One
First World
Go
Lot
Cup
Trying
Just
Your
World Cup
Most of the time, you're just trying to be the point guard out there based on the play call and the defense that you're getting; that really dictates where the football goes.
Alex Smith
Time
You
Guard
Defense
Out
Point
Point Guard
Football
Most
Call
Dictates
Trying
Goes
Getting
Just
Where
Really
Based
Play
It wasn't a conscious decision to search for my Asian self; it was an urgency born out of an emptiness I was trying to fill.
Alex Tizon
Decision
Out
Born
Self
Emptiness
Trying
Urgency
Asian
Search
Fill
Conscious
Conscious Decision
As far as 'Dahmer' and 'Jumanji' are concerned, with both of them, they felt super raw and affecting, but in their own ways. I also thought 'Jumanji' was completely not trying to be anything except what it was, and I found it to be hilarious.
Alex Wolff
Thought
Hilarious
Own
Ways
Super
Both
Except
Raw
Also
Concerned
Felt
Affecting
Trying
As Far As
Anything
Them
Far
Found
I think it's cool that London Fashion Week is about young designers trying wacky things.
Alexa Chung
Fashion
Young
Think
London
About
Week
Wacky
Trying
Cool
Things
Designers
In 2009, the 'New York Times' ran an analysis on the cost of being a LGBT couple trying to live as a married couple but without the same protections. Over a lifetime, they estimated a couple would spend as much as $467,562 more, and as little as $41,196, with costs running lower the higher your income.
Alexander Chee
Live
Analysis
Ran
Spend
Married
Married Couple
Would
Running
Cost
More
Costs
Higher
Lifetime
Over
New
Couple
Without
Times
Trying
York
Same
New York
Being
New York Times
Estimated
Little
Much
Lower
Your
Income
I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the young laboratory worker, it would be this - never to neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening.
Alexander Fleming
Advice
Young
Extraordinary
Neglect
Our
Astonishing
Our Lives
Out
Would
Would-Be
Point
Never
Been
Laboratory
Offer
Trying
May
Influence
Happening
Worker
Appearance
Lives
Chance
The best way to learn how to work with actors is to have had experience of trying to act yourself - it will teach you humility if nothing else.
Alexander Mackendrick
Work
Best
You
Experience
Yourself
Will
Nothing
Humility
Else
Way
Best Way
Had
Learn
How
Trying
Act
Teach
Actor
Childhood is just this amazing place, and in my books, I was trying to express my concern about childhood being eroded. You have kids' TV programs being interrupted by terrorist attacks, and kids are exposed to so much these days.
Alexandra Adornetto
You
Amazing
Programs
Books
Kids
TV
About
Attacks
Days
Concern
Terrorist
Eroded
Trying
Childhood
Just
Being
Place
Much
Exposed
Express
Interrupted
When I was trying to figure out how the government might go about creating the camps in 'The Darkest Minds,' I researched the Japanese internment camps here in the United States, specifically propaganda the government used, and how they capitalized on people's fears.
Alexandra Bracken
Government
People
Darkest
Fears
Minds
States
Out
Propaganda
About
How
Go
Camps
Trying
Japanese
Might
Creating
Used
Figure
United
United States
Specifically
Internment
Here
For my first acting gig, I was a hand model for a Barbie commercial that was only going to air in Asia. And I was constantly trying to get my face in the shot.
Alexandra Daddario
Face
First
Air
Gig
Constantly
Only
Hand
Commercial
Model
Get
Trying
Going
Asia
Barbie
Shot
Acting
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