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I used to read comics as a kid, and now I'm reading them for research. It's great fun. It's not bad homework.
David Harewood
Great
Reading
Research
Homework
Kid
Great Fun
Bad
Read
Comics
Them
Used
Fun
Now
Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big change. It confused people: they said, 'Things don't look like that!'
David Hockney
Change
People
Confused
Perspective
First
Big
Attack
Had
Like
Look
Known
Cubism
Said
Big Change
Been
Years
Used
Things
Writers are used to being re-created, and need it.
David James Duncan
Writers
Re-Created
Being
Used
Need
My father used to say, 'What the hell are you listening to? Put that bloody rubbish off.' And it was The Beatles.
David Jason
You
Beatles
Listening
Father
Hell
Rubbish
Say
Put
Off
Bloody
Used
Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used.
David Lehman
Words
Will
Single
Field
Enter
Spin
Magnetic
No-One
Proprietary
Like
How
Dictate
Fixed
Orbit
Owns
Them
Meaning
Used
Electron
Initial
Away
Right
Wider
The Guy Fawkes mask has now become a common brand and a convenient placard to use in protest against tyranny - and I'm happy with people using it; it seems quite unique, an icon of popular culture being used this way.
David Lloyd
Happy
Culture
People
Tyranny
Mask
Become
Way
Seems
Guy
Protest
Brand
Quite
Common
Convenient
Being
Against
Icon
Use
Used
Being Used
Popular
Unique
Using
Popular Culture
Now
I just sit at the drawing board most of the time. I am used to talking to people. I love going to conventions, getting feedback and talking to people. Some artists don't. Some artists sit at their drawing board because their personality actually dictates that.
David Lloyd
Love
Time
People
Personality
Feedback
Sit
Drawing
Some
Most
Talking
Because
Am
Dictates
Getting
Going
Just
Artists
Conventions
Board
Used
Actually
I used to feel that musical knowledge and emotional truth-telling were antagonistic. But I was too curious about chords and instruments and recording to stay locked in that mentality.
David Longstreth
Knowledge
Recording
Too
Musical
Locked
Stay
About
Mentality
Emotional
Feel
Instruments
Antagonistic
Were
Curious
Used
Chords
Information design has been around since the 1970s. Pioneers like Yale University design guru Edward Tufte and design agency Pentagram have long known and used its power. But now with the rise of the Internet, it's having something of a second birth.
David McCandless
Internet
Long
Power
Design
Birth
Has-Been
Guru
Rise
Something
Having
Since
Like
Known
Yale
Around
Been
Edward
Pioneers
Information
Agency
Used
Now
Second
University
One of the things about the modern world is that the public and the private - which is not the same as the public and the personal - but the public and the private... it's very, very much harder than it used to be to have things that are private and things that are public.
David Miliband
World
One Of The Things
About
Private
Very
Than
Personal
Same
Modern
Which
Modern World
Public
Much
Used
Harder
Things
I still haven't quite got used to eating live fish.
David Mitchell
Live
Eating
Got
Still
Fish
Quite
Used
Writers are so used to books being optioned and then the movie never happens.
David Mitchell
Books
Writers
Never
Being
Movie
Happens
Then
Used
I actually played violin on 'E.T.' I used to be a violinist.
David Newman
Used
Actually
Played
Violin
Violinist
I think I became a writer because I used to write letters to my friends, and I used to love writing them. I loved the idea that you can put marks on a page and send it off, and two days later, someone laughs somewhere else in the world.
David Nicholls
Love
You
Writing
World
Somewhere
Think
Else
Later
Marks
Laughs
Someone
Somewhere Else
Write
Writer
Put
Idea
Days
Became
Because
Off
Friends
Send
Loved
To Love
Them
Page
Used
Letters
Two
At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.
David Nicholls
Silly
Write
Never
Fiction
Little
Sketches
Used
University
Monologues
Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.
David Ogden Stiers
Disappointment
Power
Kids
Concert
Concert Hall
Hall
Sound
Surround
Theater
Them
Used
Speakers
Now
As we used to say when I was privileged to be the commander there, Nineveh province has the most diverse human terrain in all of Iraq - Sunni Arab majority to be sure, but also Shia Arabs, numerous Kurdish communities, and they are broken out into several different political parties.
David Petraeus
Broken
Political
Numerous
Say
Several
Arab
Out
Arabs
Sunni
Diverse
Most
Parties
Also
Terrain
Majority
Sure
Commander
Kurdish
Iraq
Province
Political Parties
Privileged
Human
Different
Used
Communities
A.J. Liebling, one of my heroes, used to say that he could write better than anyone who wrote faster, and faster than anyone who could write better. I'm one nine-hundredth as good as Liebling, but that principle may slightly apply.
David Remnick
Good
Better
Heroes
Faster
Say
Slightly
Could
Write
He
Wrote
Principle
Than
May
Anyone
Used
Who
Apply
My fouls used to be ticky-tacky, but I learned real fast to make them count.
David Robinson
Count
Make
Learned
Real
Them
Used
Fast
People used to think that private equity was basically just a compensation scheme, but it is much more about making companies more efficient.
David Rubenstein
People
Think
About
More
Scheme
Making
Equity
Private
Efficient
Just
Much
Used
Companies
Compensation
Basically
I realised I could run after finding out that my dad used to run and it gave me the morale that if he did it then maybe I could also run.
David Rudisha
Me
Gave
Out
Run
Finding
Morale
Could
He
Also
Did
Maybe
After
Realised
Then
Used
Dad
New platforms are emerging: Netflix, Amazon, Hulu and Xbox. And film actors are gravitating towards television, because there are basically better roles there. Television is making the kind of epics and genres that the movie studios used to make, and often doing it better with more complex narratives and corresponding budgets.
David S. Goyer
Better
Complex
Television
Kind
Corresponding
Netflix
Emerging
More
Studios
Towards
New
Budgets
Make
Genres
Because
Narratives
Making
Doing
Amazon
Roles
Hulu
Often
Movie
Epics
Used
Platforms
Film
Actor
Film Actors
Basically
One of the strangest things that used to happen at half time was that you'd come in, and you would have to sit down and be quiet. Get your drink, your energy bars or whatever, and sit down.
David Seaman
Time
You
Half
Sit
Whatever
Energy
Down
Would
Drink
Come
Quiet
Get
Happen
Your
Used
Strangest
Bars
Things
I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration.
David Sedaris
Exaggeration
Humorists
Tools
Way
About
Write
Always
Been
Very
Upfront
Use
Used
Also, I used to think that one day I might get someone to iron my shirts, but the truth is I really like doing them myself.
David Sedaris
Truth
Myself
Day
Truth Is
Think
One Day
Someone
Like
Also
Doing
Shirts
Iron
Get
Them
Might
Really
Used
Once you win, you get used to winning, and that's not a bad thing.
David Silva
You
Win
Once
Bad
Winning
Bad Thing
Get
Used
Thing
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