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I was so intimidated by the thought of improvising back in the '80s when I was in Chicago. I think the opportunity only even came up once that I can recall, and I turned down the offer. It was to go improvise in some club in the suburbs or something. Good God, I couldn't think of anything more frightening than to get up there without a plan.
Neil Flynn
God
Good
Opportunity
Thought
Improvise
Club
Down
Think
Back
Once
Intimidated
Some
Something
More
Only
Something Good
Without
Came
Go
Chicago
Up
Offer
Than
Frightening
Get
Improvising
Anything
Suburbs
Plan
Turned
Even
Recall
And (cue music swell) motherhood turned out to be the most meaningful thing I've ever done with my life. Really.
Nia Vardalos
Life
Music
My Life
Motherhood
Out
Most
Cue
Done
Meaningful
Turned
Really
Swell
Ever
Thing
My dad had a board, and my older brothers windsurfed. I just wanted to do what my brothers did. I was seven, I think, and I was like, 'Can I go, can I go, can I go?,' and I've never turned back.
Nick Dempsey
Older
Think
Back
Seven
Brothers
Never
Had
Like
Go
Did
Just
Wanted
Board
Turned
Dad
Older Brothers
With 'Brooklyn,' I knew the story I wanted to tell, and I just had a very strong sense that if I turned the volume up a little bit, it could be something really special.
Nick Hornby
Strong
Sense
Bit
Tell
Brooklyn
Strong Sense
Something
Could
Had
Volume
Knew
Up
Very
Just
Wanted
Story
Little
Little Bit
Turned
Really
Special
In, like, seventh or eighth grade every day after school, my friend Andrew and I would watch 'Wayne's World.' And I think it's a great example of a sketch effectively turned into a movie and a story that really works with a good journey. Not easily accomplished, but such a good journey.
Nick Kroll
Good
Day
Great
Journey
Every Day
World
School
Example
Every
Think
Seventh
Great Example
Wayne
Easily
Andrew
Would
My Friend
Like
Accomplished
Friend
Effectively
Grade
Movie
Eighth
After
Eighth Grade
After-School
Story
Sketch
Turned
Really
Works
Watch
While most people turn 21 and decide to go out and party, I turned 21 and decided that I was going to become somebody that I never thought I could be: somebody who cares about herself and her body, her future, and her health.
Nikki Reed
Future
Health
People
Thought
Somebody
Party
Become
Cares
Herself
Out
About
Could
Never
Most
Go
Going
Decide
Decided
While
Turn
Turned
Body
Who
Who Cares
Her
My brother and I had a lot of freedom growing up, and thankfully, we both turned out OK.
Nikki Reed
Freedom
OK
Out
Brother
Both
Had
Lot
Up
Thankfully
Turned
Growing
Growing Up
I heard opera all day long. From the time I was 9 years old, I was imitating the singers; later I studied opera. But we also got Western television and radio, from the Americans in West Berlin. When I was 11 years old, I turned into a hippie and gave flowers to policemen. And when I was 21 and left Berlin for London, I became a punk.
Nina Hagen
Time
Day
Old
Punk
Long
Gave
Imitating
Later
Television
All Day
Berlin
London
Studied
Opera
Also
Policemen
Singers
Became
Got
Hippie
West
Years
Heard
Western
Left
American
Turned
Radio
Flowers
William O. Douglas married not one, not two, not three, but four hot blondes. He was not faithful to any of them, not even the last, and each was younger than the previous woman... But after his personal life began to actually fall apart, he developed a set of values about the Constitution that turned out to maximize our autonomy and freedom.
Noah Feldman
Life
Freedom
Constitution
Woman
Values
Three
Faithful
Fall
Personal Life
Our
William
Out
Married
About
Previous
Developed
He
Hot
His
Blondes
Began
Than
Personal
Maximize
Any
After
Autonomy
Apart
Them
Younger
Turned
Douglas
Even
Each
Actually
Four
Last
Two
Set
Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
Noam Chomsky
War
Democracy
People
World
Political
First
Had
Until
First World
First World War
Scientists
Been
Up
Germany
Model
American
Turned
World War
I played football for a long time when I was a kid, and then I went to art college and turned my back on it. Because of that, my toes are mangled; they've been broken. They're like hooves or talons. They're disgusting. I'd never get them out.
Noel Fielding
Art
Time
Broken
College
Long
Long Time
Back
Kid
Out
Never
Football
Like
Because
Been
Art College
Get
Disgusting
Them
Turned
Then
Toes
Played
For all of my class projects, I somehow turned it into a commercial parody or put on plays. My whole thing was seeing things from a big picture, from beginning to middle to end: making a costume, doing voices, writing a script, making it all happen.
Noel Wells
Class
Writing
Picture
Big
Beginning
Projects
Seeing
Somehow
Costume
Voices
Parody
Put
Making
Doing
End
Commercial
Big Picture
Middle
Happen
Script
Turned
Whole
Thing
Things
Plays
In 1980, Atari was bringing in around two billion dollars in revenue and Chuck E. Cheese's some five hundred million. I still didn't feel too bad that I had turned down a one-third ownership of Apple - although I was beginning to think it might turn out to be a mistake.
Nolan Bushnell
Mistake
Cheese
Beginning
Ownership
Down
Think
Too
Chuck
Hundred
Out
Atari
Bad
Some
One-Third
Had
Feel
Although
Around
Revenue
Still
Dollars
Five
Might
Turn
Turned
Billion
Billion Dollars
Apple
Million
Bringing
Two
I went to a dentist for a toothache, and it turned out his kids were in an acting school. We talked about it, and I decided to enroll at the same school. I was 14. I guess you could say I just got lucky.
Nolan Gerard Funk
You
School
Guess
Toothache
Enroll
Say
Kids
Out
About
Could
Talked
Got
Were
His
Dentist
Same
Just
Decided
Turned
Acting
Acting School
Lucky
'Ender's Game' is fantastic, and I've gotten to see quite a few bits, and I love the way it's turned out.
Nonso Anozie
Love
Game
Few
Way
Bits
Out
See
Gotten
Quite
Fantastic
Turned
Never let them see you in public after you've turned thirty-five. You're finished if you do!
Norma Shearer
You
Finished
Thirty-Five
See
Never
After
Public
Them
Turned
I'm still insecure, but when I first started acting, I was really insecure. I glared at a lot of people. I assumed everyone hated me. Somehow that scowl has turned into an acting career.
Norman Reedus
Me
People
First
Assumed
Everyone
Insecure
Hated
Somehow
Still
Lot
Turned
Really
Acting
Acting Career
Started
Career
In order for sensation to accede to the objectivity of things, it must itself be changed into a thing. The agent of change is language: the sensations are turned into verbal objects.
Octavio Paz
Change
Language
Changed
Must
Objectivity
Objects
Verbal
Itself
Sensation
Sensations
Order
Turned
Agent
Thing
Things
The Obama administration has turned a blind eye to radical Islam since before they came to office. If you look at everything that's transpired since the famous Cairo speech in 2009, it's all been an embrace of those who are the most radical elements in that part of the world. That is not a good sign for America's foreign policy.
Oliver North
Good
You
World
Islam
Before
Radical
Everything
Those
Sign
Eye
Obama
Administration
Obama Administration
Embrace
Good Sign
Part
Since
Look
Most
Blind
Blind Eye
Policy
Foreign
Came
Foreign Policy
Been
Office
America
Famous
Turned
Radical Islam
Who
Elements
Speech
One of the things that defines a TEDster is you've taken your passion, and you've turned it into stewardship. You actually put action to the issues you care about.
Omar Ahmad
You
Passion
Care
Action
Defines
One Of The Things
About
Taken
Put
Stewardship
Issues
Turned
Your
Actually
Things
In Sudan, we have been targeted by western countries because we have rejected their hegemony on Sudan and turned their companies away that were only interested in oil.
Omar al-Bashir
Only
Countries
Because
Were
Been
Western
Western Countries
Targeted
Oil
Interested
Hegemony
Turned
Companies
Sudan
Away
Rejected
I've made a dozen films in the English language. But then, for love, for my family and friends, I returned to Europe... I annoyingly - looking back - turned down films like 007, 'For Your Eyes Only,' written specially for me.
Ornella Muti
Love
Family
Me
Eyes
Language
Made
Looking
Looking Back
Down
Films
Back
Only
Written
Like
Returned
Friends
Family And Friends
Turned
Then
Your
English
Europe
English Language
Dozen
I got behind that pencil and nothing happened for many years, but since they put me in the Songwriters Hall of Fame, I've turned around. I took a good look at myself and said, I think it's time to get back at work.
Otis Blackwell
Work
Time
Myself
Good
Me
Nothing
Think
Took
Back
Pencil
Songwriters
Put
Since
Look
Hall
Around
Said
Got
Years
Fame
Get
Behind
Happened
Turned
Many
My career only took off because of one football game. I thought it was funny. 'Playboy' called and offered me a cover just like that. I turned them down initially, because I was nervous about it and my boyfriend at the time didn't want me to do it, but they kept coming back, so I eventually said yes.
Pamela Anderson
Funny
Time
Me
Game
Thought
Nervous
Down
Took
Back
About
Only
Football
Football Game
Like
Because
Said
Boyfriend
Coming
Cover
Off
Yes
Offered
Just
Want
Them
Turned
Initially
Eventually
Playboy
Career
Kept
When I was 41, I had a very bad back pain, and it turned out to be Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Pamela Druckerman
Pain
Back
Out
Bad
Bad Back
Had
Very
Turned
I hardly look at myself in the mirror... I'll only wear makeup if I need to cover something up. But I've recently started caring about my skin. I just turned 60 and was like, 'OK, maybe it's time to start thinking about it.' Before that, I would just splash water on my face, put cream on, and then leave.
Pamela Hanson
Time
Myself
Water
Face
Mirror
Before
Skin
Thinking
Caring
OK
Would
Wear
About
Something
Only
Splash
Put
Like
Look
Makeup
Leave
Cover
Up
Maybe
Just
Turned
Cream
Then
Hardly
Start
Started
Need
Recently
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