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I'm an old English major from way back, so I do have fun tearing apart texts and trying to find the hidden secrets and the subtexts in there.
Cynthia Nixon
Have Fun
Old
Back
Way
Secrets
Hidden
Find
Major
Texts
Trying
Apart
English
Fun
English Major
Tearing
If I've ever regretted anything, it was putting all my eggs in one basket, holing up and kneeling at the altar of literature, instead of going out and at least reviewing, running around and trying to write for magazines. That would've been the intelligent thing to do, but I didn't, and that was because of fanaticism.
Cynthia Ozick
Out
Running
Magazines
Write
Kneeling
Instead
Putting
Altar
Because
Around
Least
Been
Reviewing
Up
Intelligent
Trying
Eggs
Going
Anything
Fanaticism
Literature
Regretted
Ever
Thing
Basket
If you skate with an Olympic level skater, they make you so much better because you're skating behind them, and you're trying to imitate their stride and their stance. It's like having the world's greatest training wheels.
D. B. Sweeney
You
Training
World
Better
Imitate
Stride
Having
Like
Make
Because
Greatest
Trying
Behind
Wheels
Skate
Skater
Skating
Them
Much
Stance
Level
Olympic
I wasn't trying to fit into a thing... it was not like I was like, 'Right, I'm the Han; I'm the Leia; I'm the Luke.' I was just like, 'Okay, I'm Rey, just trying to do me, just trying to do this scene, trying to do the right thing,' and I think that was a huge advantage because I think if not, it would've been a very different thing.
Daisy Ridley
Me
Do The Right Thing
Think
Right Thing
Okay
Scene
Advantage
Like
Because
Been
Fit
Huge
Very
Trying
Just
Different
Leia
The Right Thing
Different Thing
Luke
Right
Thing
I was the guy literally in the chess club who decided to wear a bow tie for the last two years of high school, so I obviously wasn't trying to get the ladies.
Dallas Roberts
School
Club
High
Wear
High School
Guy
Bow
Obviously
Tie
Chess
Years
Get
Trying
Ladies
Literally
Decided
Who
Last
Two
The core of the person is what he or she loves, and that is bound up with what they worship - that insight recalibrates the radar for cultural analysis. The rituals and practices that form our loves spill out well beyond the sanctuary. Many secular liturgies are trying to get us to love some other kingdom and some other gods.
Dallas Willard
Love
Secular
Other
Analysis
Our
Worship
Out
Spill
Insight
Some
Kingdom
Rituals
He
He Or She
Bound
Beyond
She
Well
Practices
Cultural
Up
Person
Get
Trying
Gods
Form
Loves
To Love
Sanctuary
Us
Radar
Many
Core
If you have the same drive and passions that everybody else has - for example, if you're trying to do the right thing for your family and do the right thing for people you employ - then you can be forgiven quite a lot.
Damian Lewis
Family
You
Do The Right Thing
People
Example
Drive
Everybody
Everybody Else
Else
Right Thing
Employ
For Example
Passions
Lot
Trying
Same
Forgiven
Quite
Quite A Lot
The Right Thing
Then
Your
Right
Thing
Pressure is the single mom who is trying to scuffle and pay her rent. We get paid a lot of money to play a game. Don't get me wrong: there are challenges. But to call it pressure is almost an insult to regular people.
Damian Lillard
Mom
Me
Game
Challenges
People
Money
Pressure
Single
Pay
Wrong
Almost
Call
Insult
Single Mom
Rent
Lot
Get
Trying
Regular
Regular People
Paid
Who
Play
Her
The vocabulary I use has to reflect the people I'm trying to communicate with.
Damian Loeb
People
Communicate
Reflect
Vocabulary
Trying
Use
When you're trying to paint a portrait of a very specific world, you're trying to show what makes the world different. So, sometimes it means exaggerating certain kind of aspects, but I don't think it's that important or it's that much of an issue as long as you get an emotional truth across.
Damien Chazelle
Truth
You
World
Sometimes
Long
Important
Think
Kind
Exaggerating
Emotional
Emotional Truth
Makes
Issue
Very
Get
Trying
Different
Much
Certain
Across
Means
Aspects
Show
Paint
Specific
Portrait
There's something very particular about the kind of rage you feel when you're alone in a practice room by yourself, unable to master a simple thing like a rudiment. You keep trying to master this very basic thing, and when you don't get it, you just scream. I broke a lot of drum heads, and I broke a lot of sticks.
Damien Chazelle
Alone
You
Yourself
Simple
Master
Practice
Rage
Broke
Unable
Kind
About
Something
Simple Thing
Feel
Particular
Heads
Like
Drum
Sticks
Lot
Very
Get
Trying
Just
Scream
Room
Keep
Thing
Basic
Trying to write music that's sensitive to 400 years ago takes a bit of madness, as it's such a long stretch of time.
Damon Albarn
Music
Time
Madness
Long
Bit
Write
Takes
Years
Years Ago
Trying
Sensitive
Stretch
If I have an accountant that just reports I just invested $10 million in my business, and he doesn't exactly itemize where every cost goes, it gives a flag to the government. They want to make sure that the reason I'm not paying taxes is because I'm reinvesting in these businesses and not trying to hide stuff.
Damon Dash
Government
Business
Hide
Every
Exactly
Cost
Gives
Invested
He
Stuff
Make
Sure
Because
Accountant
Trying
Flag
Goes
Reports
Just
Where
Want
Taxes
Paying
Reason
Businesses
Million
I try to keep myself on an even keel by trying to be as critical of myself as I am of other people. I try to separate my performance from myself.
Damon Hill
Myself
People
Try
Other
Critical
Performance
Am
Trying
Separate
Even
Keel
Keep
But my kids, my brothers' kids - they think about trying to top what we did.
Damon Wayans
Think
Top
Kids
Brothers
About
Trying
Did
I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter Sellers school of trying to prepare for the character.
Dan Aykroyd
Love
Character
School
Glasses
Clothes
Wig
Props
Come
Sellers
Trying
Using
Peter
Prepare
Peter Sellers
Play
I'm trying to write books that taste like ice cream but have the nutrition of vegetables.
Dan Brown
Vegetables
Books
Nutrition
Write
Like
Trying
Taste
Ice
Ice Cream
Cream
It's a different way of getting across an emotion. You're trying to get it across to the animator because the animator is inspired by the voicetrack in terms of how to animate the character.
Dan Castellaneta
Character
You
Way
Inspired
Emotion
Animate
Animator
Terms
Because
How
Get
Trying
Getting
Different
Across
Different Way
Russia has a long history of propaganda and trying to influence various nation's cultures and elections. It's happening. They seem to have stepped up their game.
Dan Coats
History
Game
Long
Nation
Propaganda
Russia
Seem
Various
Long History
Stepped
Cultures
Up
Trying
Influence
Happening
Elections
I was always trying to get people to fix things that are wrong. Now, it was, 'How do I make things that are going good go better?
Dan Gilbert
Good
People
Better
Wrong
Make
Always
How
Go
Fix
Get
Trying
Going
Now
Things
I'm from Wisconsin so I always feel a little nauseous about begging and trying to trick people into liking me.
Dan Harmon
Me
People
Trick
About
Wisconsin
Feel
Liking
Always
Begging
Trying
Little
I quickly discovered that trying to go play golf while living in Manhattan was about as easy as trying to grab a taxi while standing out in front of Saks Fifth Avenue in the freezing rain on the last shopping day before Christmas.
Dan Jenkins
Christmas
Day
Rain
Shopping
Before
Avenue
Living
Out
Easy
About
Freezing
Go
Discovered
Grab
Quickly
Trying
Front
Manhattan
Golf
While
Taxi
Fifth
Standing
Play
Play Golf
Last
I've read about actors trying to prevent their kids from getting into it, and I think that's from what they themselves experienced in the industry.
Dan Levy
Think
Kids
About
Prevent
Industry
Read
Trying
Getting
Experienced
Themselves
Actor
We aren't upset when Paramount makes a $200 million movie that flops, but if a charity experiments with a $5 million fundraising event that fails, we call in the attorneys. So charities are petrified of trying bold new revenue-generating endeavors and can't develop the powerful learning curves the for-profit sector can.
Dan Pallotta
Learning
Charity
Sector
Charities
Paramount
Develop
Powerful
Fails
New
Attorneys
Call
Makes
Endeavors
Trying
Upset
Movie
Experiments
Curves
Bold
Petrified
Event
Flops
Million
Fundraising
Human beings are a social species. We like to hang together in groups, just like wildebeests, just like lions. Wildebeests don't hang with lions because lions eat wildebeests. Human beings are like that. We do what that group does that we're trying to identify with.
Dan Phillips
Together
Group
Eat
Like
Identify
Because
Does
Lions
Trying
Hang
Human
Just
Human Beings
Social
Beings
Groups
Species
Once you get into a feature, whether it's a sequel or an original one, you have to start all over again, and you're creating a world, creating new characters. You're also tracking emotions. You're trying to create emotion and create a character that you can fall in love with for two hours.
Dan Scanlon
Love
Character
You
Emotions
World
Fall
Once
Characters
Feature
Emotion
Over
New
Hours
Also
Tracking
Get
Trying
Whether
Again
Create
Creating
Sequel
Original
Start
Two
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