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I'm like a guy hanging down from a horse's belly trying to establish control. On a scale of 1 to 100, I'm at 1, and I'm trying to get to 2. The older I get, the more I enjoy control, because I've lived out of control for a long, long time.
Jamey Sheridan
Time
Long
Long Time
Control
Down
Older
Enjoy
Scale
Out
Guy
More
Horse
Like
Because
Get
Trying
Hanging
Establish
Lived
Belly
When I first did a U.S. pilot season, there were very few British actors schlepping around town trying to get into television. That was 1999.
Jamie Bamber
Pilot
First
Few
Television
Town
Around
Were
Very
Get
Trying
Did
Season
Actor
British
British Actors
When I was trying to find work after drama school in London, it felt like the same actors always got the plum roles, especially in television. We have a smaller market place, vastly fewer drama-producing networks, and they seem to compete for the same established names for those projects.
Jamie Bamber
Work
School
Drama
Drama School
Market
Projects
Those
Television
Find
Plum
London
Seem
Networks
Vastly
Smaller
Like
Names
Felt
Always
Got
Roles
Trying
Same
Fewer
Established
After
Place
Actor
Compete
I'm a real person, and I'm angry. I'm trying to use this celebrity thing to get people some help. AIDS, poverty, racism - I want to be one of the hands that helps stop all that. I'll put it on my shoulders. I'll charge it to my account.
Jamie Foxx
Angry
Racism
People
Poverty
AIDS
Charge
Some
Put
Real
Account
Celebrity
Celebrity Thing
Person
Real Person
Get
Trying
Hands
Stop
Want
Shoulders
Use
Help
Helps
Thing
I've been going through photos of my mother, looking back on her life and trying to put it into context. Very few people age gracefully enough to be photographed through their aging.
Jamie Lee Curtis
Life
Age
People
Mother
Looking
Looking Back
Few
Enough
Back
Photographed
Photos
Through
Put
Context
Been
Very
Gracefully
Trying
Few People
Going
Aging
Her
It's just us trying to start a movement where everybody passes on a bit of cooking knowledge. We estimate that one person can potentially affect 180 others very quickly so we're just trying to spread the word.
Jamie Oliver
Knowledge
Cooking
Word
Everybody
Others
Bit
Potentially
Spread
Passes
Affect
Very
Quickly
Person
Trying
Just
Movement
Where
Estimate
Us
Start
Theatres that are stuffed to the gunnels leave me feeling rather peaceful - that's when things are going right. When you're playing to 40% and trying to make the budget, it's more difficult.
Jamie Parker
Me
You
Feeling
Difficult
Rather
More
Stuffed
Budget
Make
Leave
Trying
Going
Peaceful
Right
Things
Playing
You're always trying to find common ground with whatever you do, but you want to not be thinking about yourself when you're performing a play. The job is getting yourself out of the way and letting the character go about the scenes.
Jamie Parker
Character
You
Yourself
Job
Whatever
Thinking
Way
Out
Find
About
Scenes
Performing
Always
Go
Trying
Getting
Common
Want
Common Ground
Ground
Letting
Play
Obviously, when you're doing fitness work at a club all week and every week, it's all about specific drills for what you need to do on the pitch. So I'd be doing a different drill to the centre-midfielders. It's all specifically tailored for me. For example, my drills are high speed. It's all about trying to break the line with a sharp sprint.
Jamie Vardy
Work
Fitness
Me
You
Example
Club
Every
Speed
High
About
Drill
Drills
Week
Tailored
Sharp
For Example
Obviously
Doing
Line
Sprint
Trying
Pitch
Different
Break
Specific
Specifically
Need
Using these toolkits is like trying to make a bookshelf out of mashed potatoes.
Jamie Zawinski
Bookshelf
Out
Potatoes
Mashed Potatoes
Like
Make
Trying
Using
I always just experiment with different sounds and styles until I find something that evokes the feeling I'm going for. I'm not trying to think too much about what anyone else is doing.
Jamie xx
Too Much
Feeling
Experiment
Think
Too
Else
Find
About
Something
Until
Styles
Always
Doing
Sounds
Trying
Going
Just
Different
Anyone
Anyone Else
Much
Different Sounds
I get to go to so many different countries and hear so much music and collect totally different records. It's all very inspiring, and I'm trying to embrace that experience because not that many producers get to have that.
Jamie xx
Music
Experience
Collect
Embrace
Totally
Records
Inspiring
Countries
Because
Go
Hear
Very
Get
Trying
Different
Different Countries
Much
Producers
Many
The government is a very large constructor. They have schools, colleges, hospitals and courts, offices. We are trying to influence the public works department to adopt green buildings.
Jamshyd Godrej
Government
Colleges
Adopt
Hospitals
Schools
Buildings
Courts
Very
Green
Trying
Department
Offices
Influence
Public
Large
Works
I spent my whole childhood trying to find places to be on my own. I used to sit on the water tank in the attic or in the dog's kennel. I was quite a strange child.
Jane Fallon
Strange
Dog
Water
Sit
Own
Spent
Find
My Own
Attic
Tank
Child
Trying
Quite
Childhood
Places
Used
Whole
'Teachers' is in no way a realistic soap; we're not trying to do that, which is why we never do 'issues.'
Jane Fallon
Realistic
Way
Never
Issues
Trying
Soap
Which
Teachers
Why
I have people in my life who will say, 'Honey, you're trying too hard.' I like being saucy, but I'm 73 and a half. I'm still trying to find my way between matronly and coltishness.
Jane Fonda
Life
You
People
Will
My Life
Half
Too
Honey
Way
Say
Find
Between
Like
Still
Trying
Being
Hard
Who
Saucy
I spent a good deal of time going back over my childhood, my midlife, to try to understand who I was. We're supposed to be complete and whole, and you can't be whole if you're trying to be perfect. Doing a life review helped me get over the disease to please.
Jane Fonda
Life
Time
Good
Me
You
Try
Back
Complete
Please
Spent
Perfect
Over
Supposed
Deal
Understand
Doing
Review
Get
Trying
Disease
Going
Childhood
Who
Helped
Whole
Good Deal
In 1975, when my students were kidnapped by rebels, I was accused of hiding instead of trying to save them, and of not giving enough money for their ransom. I wasn't believed.
Jane Goodall
Money
Giving
Enough
Enough Money
Kidnapped
Hiding
Students
Instead
Were
Trying
Accused
Them
Rebels
Believed
Save
In the dream life, you don't deliberately set out to dream about a house night after night; the dream itself insists you look at whatever is trying to come into visibility.
Jane Hirshfield
Life
You
Whatever
Visibility
Out
Dream
Dream Life
About
Insists
Deliberately
Come
Look
House
Itself
Trying
After
Night
Set
The military is trying very hard right now to put a better face on Guantanamo, and I think they actually have tried to rid some of the extreme versions of abuse that we have read about.
Jane Mayer
Better
Face
Military
Think
Extreme
Tried
Some
About
Put
Abuse
Read
Versions
Very
Trying
Hard
Rid
Now
Actually
Right
Guantanamo
Because our generation has waited so long to have babies, we feel we've 'discovered' something that women have been doing for thousands of years. I have no illusions that I will be in the same situation as the average working mother. I'm not trying to prove anything - I just want to have kids.
Jane Pauley
Generation
Women
Mother
Will
Long
Situation
Babies
Our
Our Generation
Kids
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
Something
Feel
Because
Prove
Doing
Been
Waited
Years
Discovered
Trying
Same
Just
Want
Anything
Average
Working
Illusions
When Communist U.S.S.R. was a superpower, the world was better off. The right-wing media is trying to marginalize the peace movement.
Janeane Garofalo
Peace
World
Better
Right-Wing
Superpower
Better Off
Off
Trying
Movement
Communist
Peace Movement
Media
Marginalize
I don't think Hollywood was trying to do anything with me. In fact, they lost interest pretty quick. I think I got lucky, briefly, in the '90s, and it just so happened that those movies were the opportunities that came my way. Then it just kind of stopped.
Janeane Garofalo
Me
Opportunities
Lost
Think
Way
Those
Kind
Pretty
Fact
Got
Came
Were
Quick
Trying
Just
Stopped
In Fact
Just Kind
Anything
Happened
Interest
Movies
Hollywood
Then
Lucky
'Troublemaker' is not an adaptation of 'Metro Girl' or 'Motor Mouth.' It is an original story. The hardest part was probably trying to keep the sound true to the novels. I always write in first person, and it was important to us that the readers of 'Metro' and 'Motor' be comfortable with the change over to a graphic novel.
Janet Evanovich
Change
Girl
First
Important
Mouth
Troublemaker
Write
Part
True
Over
Readers
Comfortable
First-Person
Always
Sound
Metro
Motor
Person
Trying
Story
Us
Graphic
Original
Novel
Novels
Keep
Hardest
Hardest Part
Adaptation
I'm just trying to get used to living on a fixed income. Now, it's going to get unfixed.
Janet Jackson
Living
Fixed
Get
Trying
Going
Just
Used
Income
Now
Playing is just about feeling. Playing isn't necessarily about misery. Playing isn't necessarily about happiness. But it's just about letting yourself feel all those things that you have already on the inside of you, but you're all the time trying to push them aside because they don't make for polite conversation or something.
Janis Joplin
Happiness
Time
You
Conversation
Yourself
Feeling
Those
Inside
About
Something
Misery
Push
Feel
Make
Because
Polite
Trying
Just
Them
Aside
Letting
Things
Necessarily
Playing
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