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With a bad script and even the best cast, the most you can hope for is to turn a sow's ear into a silk purse.
John Rhys-Davies
Hope
Best
You
Bad
Silk
Cast
Purse
Most
Sow
Script
Turn
Even
Ear
We just don't need any more 'Macbeth's in the world, however brilliant mine might turn out to be.
John Tiffany
World
Brilliant
Macbeth
Mine
Out
More
However
Any
Just
Might
Turn
Need
I made odd noises as a child. Just did weird things, like turn off light switches twice. I think my parents thought I had Tourette's syndrome.
Johnny Depp
Light
Thought
Made
Parents
Think
Syndrome
Had
Weird
Weird Things
Like
Noises
Odd
Off
Child
Did
Just
Turn
Turn-Off
Twice
Things
TV has taken a crazy turn, especially in the industry of food, where everything is either a competition show or a sort of reality show. We've lost the kind of shows that are, like, 'Here's how you do this,' like the old Julia Child shows.
Johnny Iuzzini
Food
Crazy
You
Reality
Competition
Old
Lost
Everything
Kind
TV
Taken
Like
Industry
Sort
How
Julia
Child
Where
Either
Reality Show
Turn
Show
Shows
Here
I write in all sorts of places; it's a legacy of my time as a journalist, where I could turn out copy in a hotel corridor. But I have a little office that I rent in my local town, and that's my ideal place.
Jojo Moyes
Time
Journalist
Local
Out
Corridor
My Time
Could
Write
Hotel
Ideal
Town
Sort
Rent
Legacy
Office
Where
Place
Places
Little
Turn
Copy
'Made' is about opening your heart to people who deserve your love and not trying to turn other people into something that they're not: not trying to save people who don't want to be saved. If you go down that dark path, you're not going to end up doing any good.
Jon Favreau
Love
Good
You
Heart
People
Dark
Path
Made
Down
Saved
Other
About
Something
Opening
Doing
Go
End
Up
Trying
Any
Going
Want
Turn
Your
Who
Deserve
Save
I think 'Oz' is the type of show that makes you turn away in fear and in horror, so for a television show, that's pretty intense.
Jon Hurwitz
You
Fear
Think
Type
Television
Television Show
Pretty
Horror
Makes
Intense
Oz
Turn
Show
Away
The Who, England's most self-conscious band, have released 'Quadrophenia,' which in turn freezes in time our image of the mid-Sixties Mod sensibility.
Jon Landau
Time
Band
Our
Released
Self-Conscious
Most
Sensibility
The Who
Which
Turn
England
Who
Image
On 'Bar Rescue,' failure is not an option. I have to try to turn the business around.
Jon Taffer
Failure
Business
Try
Around
Option
Bar
Turn
Rescue
If Spider-Man is your ground level superhero, I wanted to come up with a ground-level villain. I wanted to figure out if I could turn a regular guy into a super-villain.
Jon Watts
Out
Spider-Man
Superhero
Guy
Could
Come
Up
Wanted
Turn
If I Could
Regular
Regular Guy
Your
Figure
Ground
Villain
Level
I can talk to anybody but when it comes to somebody that I like, then I turn into like this five-year-old kindergartener in a sandbox.
Jonathan Bennett
Somebody
Like
Talk
Five-Year-Old
Anybody
Sandbox
Turn
Then
But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because they turn into novels.
Jonathan Coe
Time
Trouble
Books
Out
Write
Because
Same
Short
Same Time
Stories
Short Stories
Which
Turn
Novels
Why
Keeping
Things
Unless we understand a certain material - metal or resin and plastic - understanding the processes that turn it from ore, for example - we can never develop and define form that's appropriate.
Jonathan Ive
Example
Understanding
Unless
Appropriate
Define
Never
Develop
For Example
Understand
Metal
Material
Form
Processes
Ore
Turn
Certain
Plastic
'Rent' is about a community celebrating life in the face of death and AIDS at the turn of the century.
Jonathan Larson
Life
Death
Face
Community
AIDS
About
Rent
Celebrating
Turn
Century
Part of the beauty of Judaism, and surely this is so for other faiths also, is that it gently restores control over time. Three times a day we stop what we are doing and turn to God in prayer. We recover perspective. We inhale a deep breath of eternity.
Jonathan Sacks
God
Time
Day
Prayer
Perspective
Three
Beauty
Control
Breath
Other
Recover
Part
Over
Also
Judaism
Surely
Gently
Faiths
Doing
Times
Stop
Eternity
Turn
Inhale
Deep
Deep Breath
There's this idea that when you turn 40, you automatically go to adult contemporary heaven, but I want to try and challenge that.
Jordan Knight
You
Try
Challenge
Adult
Idea
Contemporary
Go
Heaven
Want
Automatically
Turn
There is something transformative if you're a black person cheering in a theater and turn to see a white person cheering for the same thing you are.
Jordan Peele
You
Black
Same Thing
White
See
Something
Cheering
Person
Same
Transformative
Theater
Turn
Thing
A lot of weekend players struggle with putting because they have too much tension in their hands and arms, both at address and during the stroke. Tension can turn a technically perfect motion into a herky-jerky mess, especially on those knee-knockers.
Jordan Spieth
Struggle
Technically
Too Much
Too
Address
Those
Stroke
Both
Perfect
Weekend
Putting
Tension
Mess
Arms
Because
Motion
Lot
Hands
Turn
Much
Players
The Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci used to say that for her, an interview was like a war. I get the sense that we've forgotten that here in the United States. You turn on the TV, and you see very bland interviews. Journalists in the United States are very cozy with power, very close to those in power.
Jorge Ramos
War
You
Power
Journalist
Sense
Interview
Interviews
Say
States
Those
TV
See
Bland
Journalists
Like
Italian
Very
Close
Cozy
Get
Forgotten
Turn
Turn-On
Used
United
United States
Her
Here
When I'm writing, I like to have a tiny bit of fact and then exaggerate it and turn it into something more people could relate to.
Jorja Smith
People
Writing
Relate
Bit
Exaggerate
Something
More
More People
Fact
Could
Like
Tiny
Turn
Then
The best and the worst thing about fashion is that anyone can do it. But because fashion can be the most unintellectual thing, you have to turn it into an intellectual exercise just for your own sanity. You have to start with a conceit.
Joseph Altuzarra
Best
Fashion
You
Own
Worst
Worst Thing
About
Conceit
Most
Because
Exercise
Intellectual
Just
Anyone
Turn
Your
Sanity
Thing
Start
Trump sees the world in terms of a zero-sum game. In reality, globalisation, if well managed, is a positive-sum force: America gains if its friends and allies - whether Australia, the E.U., or Mexico - are stronger. But Trump's approach threatens to turn it into a negative-sum game: America will lose, too.
Joseph Stiglitz
Game
Reality
World
Will
Stronger
Lose
Too
Approach
Threatens
Sees
Allies
Terms
Globalisation
Well
Force
Trump
Mexico
Australia
Friends
America
Whether
Gains
Turn
Zero-Sum
It is sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into a decent human being.
Joseph Wood Krutch
Guidance
Human Being
Sometimes
Easier
Head
Study
Institute
Than
Child
Brat
Human
Decent
Being
Turn
Through the 1980s and '90s, evangelicals sought to turn back the forces of secularization. Groups like the Moral Majority and the Christian Coalition pressed for laws recognizing Christianity's unique place in American life, including laws that would allow prayer in public schools and Christian displays in public places.
Josh Hawley
Life
Prayer
Public Schools
Christian
Christianity
Back
Pressed
Recognizing
Moral
Would
Laws
Through
Allow
Like
Schools
Majority
Forces
Sought
American
Place
Places
Public
American Life
Turn
Coalition
Evangelicals
Unique
Groups
Including
Everything I write tends to turn into a superhero team, even if I didn't mean for it to. I always start off wanting to be solitary, because a) it's simpler, and b) that isolation is something that I relate to as a storyteller. And then no matter what, I always end up with a team.
Joss Whedon
Matter
Isolation
Relate
Everything
Solitary
Superhero
Something
Write
Tends
Simpler
Because
Always
Off
End
Up
Wanting
Storyteller
Mean
Turn
Then
Team
Even
Start
I do not outline. There are writers I know and count as my friends who certainly do it the other way, but for me, part of the adventure is not knowing how it's going to turn out.
Joyce Maynard
Me
Not Knowing
Other
Way
Out
Outline
Writers
Count
Part
Adventure
Know
Knowing
How
Friends
Going
Turn
Certainly
Who
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