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I'm often asked if I regret not going to Hollywood. I'm glad I didn't go, because if I had I wouldn't have my extended family, which is the fabric of my life. Only recently have I realised how special and unusual it is.
Francesca Annis
Life
Family
Regret
My Life
Fabric
Only
Glad
Had
Unusual
Because
How
Go
Going
Often
Realised
Which
Hollywood
Asked
Special
Extended
Extended Family
Recently
If you're sending a message to extraterrestrials, what you want to send is what's special about us and our planet - what is unusual. Now, that's not basic chemistry or mineralogy; it's pretty much the cultural stuff and the consequences of evolution.
Frank Drake
You
Chemistry
Consequences
Extraterrestrial
Our
Our Planet
Evolution
Pretty
About
Stuff
Message
Unusual
Cultural
Send
Sending
Want
Us
Much
Planet
Special
Now
Basic
As a military pilot and a test pilot, handling unusual situations and aircraft malfunctions was part of the business.
Fred Haise
Business
Pilot
Military
Aircraft
Part
Unusual
Test
Test Pilot
Handling
Situations
Suburbia, to me, was the most fantastical, unusual place. I thought it was Disneyland.
Gaby Hoffmann
Me
Thought
Most
Unusual
Place
Suburbia
Disneyland
It's not unusual for a would-be entrepreneur to get turned down half a dozen times before finding a willing investor - yet in most companies, it takes only one 'nyet' to kill a project stone dead.
Gary Hamel
Entrepreneur
Half
Before
Down
Project
Willing
Would-Be
Finding
Only
Investor
Takes
Most
Dead
Unusual
Times
Get
Stone
Turned
Companies
Dozen
Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of unusual parts of your body in your fifties. It's tough on the ego.
Geoffrey Rush
Ego
Old
Tough
Hair
Out
Would
Would-Be
Easy
Having
Nobody
Unusual
Parts
Said
Just
Hold
Newspaper
Then
Fifties
Forties
Body
Your
Your Body
Growing
Growing Old
Ever
What I taught myself was that in any problem you get, you've got to come up with an innovative, brilliant, kind of unusual, stunning solution.
George Lois
Myself
You
Problem
Brilliant
Innovative
Kind
Solution
Come
Stunning
Unusual
Got
Up
Get
Any
Taught
I find it quite unusual for people to criticise me for doing what I consider to be my duty.
Gordon Brown
Me
People
Duty
Consider
Criticise
Find
Unusual
Doing
Quite
I have pets, but they're the really ordinary sort - yellow Labrador, tabby cat, white rabbit, a few goldfish - that kind of stuff. Nothing very... extravagant or unusual or exotic, but I find, in terms of inspiration, Mother Nature is just it.
Graeme Base
Nature
Mother
Few
Nothing
White
Extravagant
Kind
Find
Inspiration
Cat
Stuff
Terms
Sort
Unusual
Mother Nature
Yellow
Exotic
Very
Just
Goldfish
Ordinary
Rabbit
Really
Pets
When you do something unusual, the audience doesn't 100 percent know what you're up to in the beginning. And if you're doing a character comedy, they haven't learned the characters yet.
Greg Daniels
Character
You
Comedy
Beginning
Characters
Percent
Something
Know
Learned
Unusual
Audience
Doing
Up
In The Beginning
I worked at my high school newspaper at Andover, which came out weekly, unusual for a high school paper. Then my first day at Penn I went right to the 'Daily Pennsylvanian' and pretty much spent most of my college career working both as the sports editor and then editor of the editorial page.
H. G. Bissinger
Day
Daily
Sports
School
College
First
Paper
Spent
Out
High
Penn
Pretty
High School
Both
Weekly
Most
Unusual
Editor
Editorial
Came
Which
Newspaper
Then
Worked
Much
Working
Page
Right
Career
Israel's creation was politically amazing and caused by a number of unusual events. And I understand. For centuries, Jews endured horrible suffering, and like other people, deserve the right to self-determination, but the way Israel is going now frightens me. Jews make awkward colonial overlords.
Harvey Pekar
Me
Suffering
People
Events
Amazing
Creation
Other
Jews
Way
Horrible
Colonial
Like
Self-Determination
Make
Unusual
Understand
Israel
Caused
Frighten
Going
Politically
Endured
Centuries
Now
Deserve
Right
Awkward
Number
Neptune's unusual behavior is showing us that though we can make great models of planetary atmospheric circulation, there may be key pieces missing.
Heidi Hammel
Great
Key
Behavior
Circulation
Though
Neptune
Atmospheric
Missing
Pieces
Make
Unusual
Models
May
Us
Planetary
Showing
My whole history of being an actor is unusual and slightly disgraceful because it should be something you burn to do.
Hugh Grant
History
You
Slightly
Something
Unusual
Because
Disgraceful
Being
Burn
Should
Whole
Actor
I don't think it's unusual to spend time with your castmate.
Isabel Lucas
Time
Think
Spend
Unusual
Your
The Greeks already understood that there was more interest in portraying an unusual character than a usual character - that is the purpose of films and theatre.
Isabelle Huppert
Character
Theatre
Films
More
Purpose
Unusual
Understood
Than
Greeks
Interest
Usual
Portraying
Lots of people juggle a lot of things in their personal and private lives, and I'm not unusual in that. Plenty of women have multitasked before me, and I want to acknowledge that.
Jacinda Ardern
Me
Women
People
Before
Plenty
Unusual
Juggle
Private
Private Lives
Lot
Lots
Personal
Want
Acknowledge
Lives
Things
The process of being filmed was, I found, peculiar but not discomfiting. At 13, you are malleable, adaptable, better able to take the unusual in your stride.
James Lovegrove
You
Better
Stride
Able
Take
Unusual
Malleable
Being
Process
Your
Found
Adaptable
Peculiar
In my case, the only thing to note is if I show up at home at an unusual time, it's cause for raising my wife's blood pressure because it only happens if... usually that involves stitches.
Jamie Hyneman
Time
Home
Cause
Wife
Pressure
Case
Only
Involves
Unusual
Because
Blood
Blood Pressure
Up
The Only Thing
Happens
Note
Show
Thing
Raising
If you are charged with this responsibility of enhancing interrogations, or using soldiers to enhance interrogations to find Saddam, and you're above the law for all practical purposes, you might try some unusual techniques. Now we know that, in fact, they did.
Janis Karpinski
You
Law
Try
Responsibility
Soldiers
Charged
Find
Some
Above
Fact
Purposes
Saddam
Know
Practical
Unusual
Did
In Fact
Might
Using
Enhance
Now
Enhancing
Techniques
Anyone who has any kind of success in Hollywood wants to make more expensive movies and spend more money, be bigger. I think it's unusual to have success and want to stay small.
Jason Blum
Success
Money
Think
Spend
Kind
Stay
More
Small
Make
Unusual
Any
Expensive
Want
Anyone
Bigger
Wants
Movies
Hollywood
Who
Many of the things we do at Basecamp would be considered unusual at most companies: paying for employees' hobbies, allowing our team to work from anywhere, even footing the bill for fresh fruits and veggies in our staff members' homes.
Jason Fried
Work
Employees
Our
Considered
Members
Would
Would-Be
Allowing
Footing
Most
Unusual
Fresh
Hobbies
Staff
Fruits
Anywhere
Bill
Paying
Team
Companies
Many
Even
Homes
Things
A great JRPG captures that feeling of going on an unusual adventure, of bringing a ragtag group of heroes from famine to fortune or steering cold-hearted villagers away from indifference.
Jason Schreier
Great
Heroes
Feeling
Group
Indifference
Steering
Adventure
Unusual
Going
Famine
Fortune
Captures
Away
Bringing
Game ideas on Kickstarter have found loads of success, even when they're not as unusual as 'BlindSide.'
Jason Schreier
Success
Game
Kickstarter
Ideas
Unusual
Even
Found
Loads
It's not unusual for socio-economic, even racial or ethnic, groups to cluster.
Jay Parini
Unusual
Cluster
Racial
Ethnic
Ethnic Groups
Even
Groups
Socio-Economic
Athletes often start life at the opposite end of the wealth and prestige spectrum, but as soon as they exhibit an unusual talent for swinging a bat or sinking a free-throw they may find that the rules have been suspended for them. They are waved through school and into the pros, and incidents of bad behavior are overlooked or covered up.
Jeffrey Kluger
Life
Wealth
School
Behavior
Sinking
Bat
Rules
Prestige
Bad
Bad Behavior
Find
Athletes
Through
Pros
Soon
Talent
Unusual
Overlooked
Exhibit
Opposite
Been
Covered
End
Up
May
Often
Suspended
Them
Incidents
Swinging
Start
Spectrum
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