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In high school, I was that guy who was trying to be cool with everybody, but I never really had a core group of friends.
Flying Lotus
School
Group
Everybody
High
High School
Guy
Never
Had
Friends
Trying
Really
Who
Cool
Core
Reading music has opened up me up so much. I've been experimenting for so long and trying to make sense of things just from my ears. It takes forever. Now I can get where I want much quicker.
Flying Lotus
Music
Me
Long
Reading
Sense
Ears
Takes
Opened
Make
Been
Up
Quicker
Forever
Get
Trying
Just
Where
Want
Experimenting
Much
Now
Things
Before I started Brainfeeder, there were rumblings in our own circle about creating a label for us all. Then I started to see all these other ones from Europe try to capitalise on the scene. It didn't make sense to me that there were all these people who were trying to build on something that was in our backyard.
Flying Lotus
Me
People
Try
Circle
Build
Before
Own
Sense
Other
Our
Backyard
See
About
Something
Scene
Make
Were
Label
Trying
Then
Us
Creating
Who
Europe
Started
It's the old-school jazz mentality that I connect with the most. I dig the idea of the seeker, the guy who's always trying to figure out why he is doing music and trying to understand and make sense of his instrument in a world which deals with rigid instruction.
Flying Lotus
Music
World
Sense
Jazz
Dig
Out
Rigid
Seeker
Guy
Mentality
He
Idea
Most
Instruction
Instrument
Make
Understand
Always
Deals
Doing
His
Trying
Which
Figure
Connect
Why
I think I didn't know whether I wanted to keep acting deep into my career. I kept trying to see if I would be able to do it well enough to make that part of my destiny or part of what I was supposed to do.
Forest Whitaker
Think
Enough
Destiny
Would
Would-Be
See
Able
Part
Supposed
Know
Well
Make
Well Enough
Trying
Wanted
Whether
Acting
Deep
Keep
Career
Kept
I've been trying to understand conflict and violence ever since I was a kid. You know. There were a few things that happened even on my block - the Black Panthers used to be right around the corner from where we were.
Forest Whitaker
You
Conflict
Black
Few
Corner
Kid
Since
Know
Around
Understand
Block
Were
Been
Trying
Few Things
Where
Happened
Used
Even
Ever
Right
Things
Violence
The key is that I'm trying to keep growing and trying to keep learning and deepen my connection in every way, in my life, in my work. That's what I do when I look at a role.
Forest Whitaker
Life
Work
Learning
Key
My Life
Every
Way
Look
Role
Trying
Connection
Growing
Keep
Deepen
We're trying to win a World Cup for our country, and I think everyone who supports football can get behind that.
Fran Kirby
World
Win
Country
Think
Everyone
Our
Football
Supports
Cup
Get
Trying
Behind
Who
World Cup
As heat rises, so does the number of people trying to cool down homes, schools, hospitals and businesses. This isn't just about comfort; it's a matter of public health.
Frances Beinecke
Health
People
Matter
Down
About
Rises
Hospitals
Schools
Comfort
Does
Trying
Heat
Just
Public
Public Health
Businesses
Cool
Homes
Number
I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, you can make people believe that you're the character you're trying to be.
Frances McDormand
Character
You
Yourself
People
Job
Believe
Think
Well
Make
Trying
Transform
Your
Film
Ever
Just as you're allowed to be angry about injustice, it's natural to express feelings of sadness or fear, especially if you're exhausted by the prospect of trying to keep a brave face.
Franchesca Ramsey
Angry
You
Injustice
Natural
Fear
Sadness
Face
Feelings
Exhausted
About
Allowed
Prospect
Trying
Brave
Just
Express
Keep
'One Hundred Years of Solitude' convinced me to drop out of Harvard graduate school. The novel reminded me of everything my Ph.D. program was trying to make me forget. Thank you, Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Francine Prose
Me
You
Solitude
School
Drop
Thank You
Everything
Hundred
Hundred Years
Harvard
Out
Drop-Out
Reminded
Make
Years
Thank
Forget
Trying
Graduate
Graduate School
Gabriel
Convinced
Novel
Program
'Say Her Name' was a book I never wanted to write and never expected to write. I wasn't trying to do anything except write a book for Aura - a book that I thought I had to write.
Francisco Goldman
Book
Thought
Say
Except
Write
Never
Had
Name
Aura
Expected
Trying
Wanted
Anything
Her
The first play that I saw was 'Cyrano,' and I remember going home - I was like nine years old - and trying to learn the monologues.
Francois Arnaud
Home
Remember
Old
First
Nine
Saw
Like
Learn
Years
Trying
Going
Going Home
Play
Monologues
There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.
Frank A. Clark
You
Nothing
Inquisitive
More
Understand
Than
Child
Trying
Explain
Them
Your
Help
Beliefs
Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.
Frank A. Clark
Buy
Man
Busy
Enjoy
Too
Enough
Earn
He
Trying
Modern
Modern Man
Things
I don't make records that way, where I'm trying to please the marketplace or anything. Not because I have anything against that, it's just never been a part of my aesthetic, even when I was with the Pixies.
Frank Black
Please
Way
Marketplace
Records
Never
Part
Make
Because
Aesthetic
Been
Trying
Just
Where
Anything
Pixies
Against
Even
We went into Iraq because Iraq posed a threat to the stability of the region and was engaged in the process of trying to develop weapons of mass destruction and had links to terrorists.
Frank Carlucci
Destruction
Weapons
Threat
Develop
Had
Mass
Mass Destruction
Because
Terrorists
Iraq
Links
Trying
Stability
Process
Region
Engaged
Because I lost a daughter, eight years old, to cystic fibrosis, I think that anytime that I'm dealing with people who, like Andrea Yeager, are trying to help those sick children, I identify very much with them.
Frank Deford
People
Old
Daughter
Lost
Think
Sick
Those
Like
Identify
Because
Dealing
Years
Very
Trying
Eight
Children
Anytime
Them
Much
Help
Who
The more we are consuming oil that either comes from places that are bent on our destruction or helping those who are... the more we are enabling those who are trying to kill us.
Frank Gaffney
Destruction
Our
Bent
Those
More
Consuming
Enabling
Trying
Oil
Either
Places
Us
Who
Helping
Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city.
Frank Gehry
Work
Me
You
Together
Architecture
Improvise
Jazz
Think
Other
Way
City
Something
Like
Make
Understand
Off
Trying
Liquid
Happen
Might
Work Together
Each
Play
There is nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitor.
Frank Howard Clark
You
Nothing
More
Understand
Than
Trying
Explain
Them
Your
Help
Beliefs
I watch actors destroy themselves by trying to get it right.
Frank Langella
Destroy
Get
Trying
Themselves
Actor
Right
Watch
But I'm not trying to convince anybody how to vote or how to live. Nobody's ever successfully accused me of being realistic.
Frank Miller
Me
Vote
Realistic
Live
Nobody
How
Trying
Accused
Anybody
Being
Convince
Successfully
Ever
In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it.
Frank Ocean
Art
You
Yourself
People
Better
Hoping
About
Most
Operate
Supreme
Than
Get
Trying
Just
Certain
Certain Level
Level
I'm trying to move a little more toward literary fiction while still retaining a popular feel.
Frank Peretti
More
Retaining
Feel
Toward
Still
Trying
Move
Fiction
Literary
Literary Fiction
While
Little
Popular
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