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I make movies the same way other kids play tennis or go to piano lessons. I'm trying to get better at what I want to do, just like other kids are trying to get better at what they want to do.
Elle Fanning
Better
Other
Other Kids
Way
Kids
Piano
Piano Lessons
Tennis
Like
Make
Go
Get
Trying
Same
Just
Want
Movies
Lessons
Play
The way I process things, they way I express myself, is in comics, just as poets process things that they are trying to understand.
Ellen Forney
Myself
Way
Poets
Understand
Comics
Trying
Just
Process
Express
Things
Oh, she just happened to be a friend of the producer's. Or, oh, they've been trying to get her from the beginning and she just had a spot open up. There are always little loopholes, so I don't take anything personally anymore.
Ellen Muth
Beginning
Take
Open
Had
She
Loopholes
Spot
Always
Been
Friend
Up
Get
Trying
Oh
Just
Anymore
Anything
Happened
Little
Personally
Producer
Her
That's what we want to do here at Johnson Space Center. I think what we have always brought to NASA and brought to the country is trying to push the boundaries, trying to go to the next level.
Ellen Ochoa
Space
Country
Think
Brought
Johnson
Push
Boundaries
Always
NASA
Go
Trying
Want
Center
Next
Next Level
Level
Here
All art to me is an empathetic act. Whoever's telling a story is trying to transfer emotion into someone else.
Elliot Ackerman
Art
Me
Else
Telling
Someone
Emotion
Empathetic
Trying
Transfer
Story
Act
Whoever
I was the kid who was sat in his room, trying to move objects across the room with my eyes or my mind.
Elliot Knight
Eyes
Mind
Kid
Objects
His
Trying
Move
Room
Across
Who
Sat
The Obama administration has been trying out a new policy toward Syria since the day it came to office. The Bush cold shoulder was viewed as a primitive reaction, now to be replaced by sophisticated diplomacy. Outreach would substitute for isolation.
Elliott Abrams
Day
Diplomacy
Isolation
Cold
Syria
Out
Has-Been
Obama
Administration
Obama Administration
Would
Outreach
Toward
Since
New
Primitive
Sophisticated
Reaction
Policy
Came
Been
Replaced
Office
Trying
Substitute
Bush
Shoulder
Viewed
Now
If you are trying to raise a child to be a Jew, then you have to create a sense of Jewish identity. You really weaken that sense of identity if you celebrate two religions.
Elliott Abrams
You
Celebrate
Sense
Weaken
Religions
Identity
Child
Trying
Then
Create
Really
Raise
Jew
Two
Jewish
I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record.
Elliott Smith
Same Thing
Record
Make
Always
Trying
Same
Which
Interesting
Thing
And I'm not trying to write heavy songs.
Elliott Smith
Write
Songs
Trying
Heavy
Trying to read our DNA is like trying to understand software code - with only 90% of the code riddled with errors. It's very difficult in that case to understand and predict what that software code is going to do.
Elon Musk
Predict
Difficult
Software
Our
Case
Only
Like
Read
Understand
Errors
Very
Trying
Going
Riddled
Code
Often, when Jim Carrey plays it straight, all of the vitality is drained from his face; he looks like a root-canal patient trying out a pleasant expression for his oral surgeon.
Elvis Mitchell
Surgeon
Face
Patient
Drained
Pleasant
Jim
Jim Carrey
Out
Vitality
He
Like
Looks
His
Trying
Oral
Often
Straight
Expression
Plays
I trained and trained and went up against Kurt, then being a world champion in '94, and after that I did Tommy's tour and then my tour and all this stuff and just trying to deal with it all. And now, I've just kind of backed off a little.
Elvis Stojko
Champion
World
Backed
Kind
Tour
Stuff
Deal
Kurt
Off
Up
Trained
Trying
Did
Just
Being
Just Kind
After
Against
Little
Then
World Champion
Now
Tommy
I was finding it very difficult to find a label that understood what I wanted to do and really believed that people wanted to hear something honest and a little bit different. So, I did feel a bit like a clown. You're knocking on everyone's door trying to get them to believe what you're doing.
Emeli Sande
You
People
Clown
Believe
Difficult
Everyone
Bit
Find
Finding
Something
Feel
Knocking
Like
Understood
Doing
Hear
Label
Very
Get
Trying
Did
Different
Door
Wanted
Little
Little Bit
Them
Really
Believed
Honest
We'll be going to the fish market and a farmer's market this afternoon to get what we need to make and eat dinner as a family. I'm trying to expose my kids to going to a farmers market or the fish market and learning what that's all about.
Emeril Lagasse
Family
Learning
Dinner
Market
Kids
Eat
About
Make
Fish
Get
Trying
Going
Afternoon
Farmer
Farmers
Expose
Need
The willingness to keep learning is, I think, the most important thing about trying to be good at anything. You never want to stop learning.
Emile Hirsch
Good
You
Learning
Important
Think
Willingness
About
Never
Most
Most Important Thing
Important Thing
Trying
Stop
The Most Important
Want
Anything
Keep
Thing
I'm not staying away from any genre. I'm trying to get scripts that I like.
Emile Hirsch
Staying
Like
Genre
Get
Trying
Any
Scripts
Away
There's something about the good-hearted guy fighting the system. I just love that. That's how 'Speed' is. He's a really focused guy with a heart of gold and the corporations are trying to crush him and use him for his skills to make them more money.
Emile Hirsch
Love
Heart
Money
Fighting
Speed
Corporations
Focused
System
About
Something
Guy
More
He
Crush
Make
Him
How
His
Trying
Just
Gold
Them
Really
Skills
Use
I've always believed in trying to be as open as possible. I think it almost comes with the job - if you can bare your emotions, it makes for better acting.
Emilia Fox
You
Emotions
Better
Job
Think
Possible
Open
Almost
Makes
Always
Trying
Bare
Acting
Your
Believed
If only media people would stop reaching for the low-hanging fruit, which is cynicism and pessimism, and stopped trying so hard to be hip and cool and have a swagger.
Emilio Estevez
Fruit
People
Would
Only
Reaching
Hip
Trying
Stop
Stopped
Swagger
Which
Hard
Pessimism
Cynicism
Cool
Media
Media People
I'm trying to avoid, you know, guilt, even though before the child is born, you're already thinking you're doing things wrong... Why do I think that will probably carry over until the day you die?
Emily Mortimer
Day
You
Will
Guilt
Before
Think
Thinking
Though
Carry
Born
Wrong
Over
Know
Until
Doing
Child
Trying
Die
Avoid
Even
Why
Things
There are actually times when there are crimes out there in the world and I find myself trying to figure it out and I ask myself, what am I doing?
Emily Procter
Myself
World
Crimes
Out
Find
Am
Doing
Times
Trying
Ask
Figure
Actually
We're trying to create one holistic beauty experience where you can be inspired by other women, both the people we're interviewing and the community contributing to the conversation.
Emily Weiss
You
Conversation
Women
Experience
People
Beauty
Community
Other
Interviewing
Both
Inspired
Contributing
Trying
Where
Holistic
Create
I do say things that I think will shock people. But I don't do things to shock people. I'm not trying to be the next Tupac, but I don't know how long I'm going to be on this planet. So while I'm here, I might as well make the most of it.
Eminem
People
Will
Long
Think
Say
Know
Most
Well
Make
How
Shock
Trying
Going
While
Tupac
Might
Planet
Next
Things
Here
When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.
Eminem
You
Mind
Black
Teenager
Kid
Rap
See
Crossed
Fact
Color
Never
Until
Became
Issue
Were
Friends
Trying
Little
Little Kid
Started
I tried to help a shirtless man who was being arrested in Starbucks. He obviously wasn't right in the head, but the police thought I was trying to make things worse.
Emma Healey
Man
Police
Thought
Worse
Tried
He
Head
Obviously
Make
Arrested
Trying
Being
Help
Who
Starbucks
Right
Things
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