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My grandmother always used to tell me, if I had a problem, I was only allowed to complain for one second. Then I had to take action.
Euzhan Palcy
Me
Problem
Action
Complain
Tell
Only
Take
Had
Allowed
Always
Then
Grandmother
Used
Second
The thing about Instagram and fashion is that is has absolutely taken down the sense of the velvet rope and has pulled the curtain aside on the entire experience that used to be for a select 100 people in the world. Now it is there for millions of people to consume.
Eva Chen
Fashion
Experience
People
World
Sense
Down
Entire
About
Select
Absolutely
Consume
Instagram
Taken
Velvet
Curtain
Aside
Rope
Used
Now
Thing
Millions
Millions Of People
Pulled
I was born in Paris, and it's a beautiful place, but London feels like home. I like the village feeling, I like running in the parks - even the food isn't as bad as it used to be.
Eva Green
Beautiful
Food
Home
Feeling
Bad
Running
London
Born
Paris
Parks
Feels
Like
Beautiful Place
Place
Used
Even
Village
I grew up on a ranch with my father, so he educated us really early on about guns. We used to go target shooting all the time.
Eva Longoria
Time
Father
Ranch
Guns
About
He
Educated
Go
Up
Target
Shooting
Grew
Us
Really
Used
Early
Muscle is constantly being used - constantly being damaged. If every time we tore a muscle or every time we stretched a muscle or moved in a wrong way, cancer occurred - I mean, everybody would have cancer almost.
Eva Vertes
Time
Cancer
Every
Stretched
Every Time
Everybody
Way
Would
Constantly
Wrong
Almost
Wrong Way
Occurred
Moved
Being
Mean
Used
Being Used
Muscle
Damaged
A chair's function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-expression. Chairs are about status, for example. Or signalling something about oneself. That's why the words chair, seat and bench have found themselves used to describe high status professions, from academia to Parliament to the law.
Evan Davis
Words
Law
Example
Sit
Bench
Medium
High
Status
About
Oneself
Something
Parliament
Academia
For Example
Self-Expression
Provide
Just
Place
Themselves
Used
Describe
Chair
Function
Chairs
Found
Professions
Why
Seat
What comes with a job as a staff member of the BBC is a certain self-censoring that you get utterly used to. You don't say everything you think. You hold back on some things.
Evan Davis
You
Job
Think
Back
Everything
Say
Member
Some
Some Things
Get
Staff
Hold
Certain
Used
Things
Utterly
I enjoy what I do every minute of the day, even when the going gets tough. When I first began writing, I used to work at a desk in the bedroom, of a small development house. My three sons all under the age of 3 would come running in and out of the room every minute.
Evan Hunter
Work
Day
Age
Writing
Three
Tough
First
Enjoy
Every
Out
Would
Running
Minute
Small
Sons
Development
Come
House
Bedroom
Began
Gets
Going
Room
Used
Even
Desk
Donald Trump has a mantra of despair, of loss. He says we don't have victories anymore. We used to have victories, but we don't. And he says the American dream is dead.
Evan Osnos
Despair
Says
Dream
He
Dead
Loss
Trump
American
Donald
Donald Trump
American Dream
Anymore
Victories
Used
Mantra
We binge on instant knowledge, but we are learning the hazards, and readers are warier than they used to be of nanosecond-interpretations of Supreme Court decisions.
Evan Osnos
Knowledge
Learning
Hazards
Instant
Supreme
Supreme Court
Readers
Court
Than
Decisions
Used
Binge
Living in Beijing, writing about politically sensitive things now and then, you get used to the idea that somebody, somewhere, might be watching. But it is usually an abstract threat.
Evan Osnos
You
Writing
Somebody
Somewhere
Living
Threat
About
Abstract
Idea
Get
Politically
Beijing
Sensitive
Might
Then
Used
Now
Now And Then
Things
Watching
The argument we always used to use was that keeping records in the catalog was good for people that were coming new to the music, but I think that was talking over a ten year or fifteen year time span.
Evan Parker
Music
Time
Good
People
Argument
Year
Think
Ten
Records
Catalog
Over
New
Talking
Always
Coming
Were
Span
Fifteen
Use
Used
Keeping
Snapchat really has to do with the way photographs have changed. Historically, photos have always been used to save really important memories: major life moments. But today... pictures are being used for talking.
Evan Spiegel
Life
Today
Memories
Important
Changed
Way
Photographs
Photos
Major
Pictures
Talking
Always
Been
Snapchat
Historically
Being
Really
Used
Being Used
Moments
Save
That's the biggest problem with boxing in the United States. They do not promote it like they used to, when it used to be Howard Cosell and they showed it on 'Wide World of Sports.' Everybody knew all the fighters. Everybody was looking forward to the year when the Olympics came on.
Evander Holyfield
Sports
Problem
World
Looking
Year
Everybody
States
Promote
Knew
Like
Looking Forward
Boxing
Came
Biggest
Biggest Problem
Used
Fighters
Forward
United
United States
Wide
Wide World
Olympics
I'm a good Canadian girl. I miss all that good stuff. I miss tobogganing and I miss snowboarding, but I've also learned to surf and I've become a water baby which I used to be relatively terrified of the water and I kayak all the time now and I'm able to run year round on the beach which you can't obviously do in Canada.
Evangeline Lilly
Time
Good
You
Water
Girl
Become
Year
Baby
Relatively
Run
Able
Beach
Miss
Stuff
Also
Obviously
Learned
Terrified
Surf
Year-Round
Canada
Canadian
Snowboarding
Which
Used
Now
Round
I used to cry myself to sleep wishing I was ugly because of the way men leered at and disrespected me.
Evangeline Lilly
Myself
Me
Ugly
Men
Way
Wishing
Cry
Because
Used
Disrespected
Sleep
I used to watch actors and say, 'You poor suckers, that job looks miserable.'
Evangeline Lilly
You
Job
Miserable
Say
Looks
Poor
Used
Actor
Watch
What surprised me most about fame is how unpleasant it can be. I used to think it was going to be so fun. I got excited about the parties. You don't anticipate friends being jealous of you and critics giving your music bad reviews. Media and rumors - that stuff hurts.
Eve
Music
Jealous
Me
You
Hurts
Giving
Think
Rumors
Bad
Unpleasant
Critics
About
Excited
Stuff
Most
Parties
Got
How
Surprised
Reviews
Anticipate
Fame
Friends
Going
Being
Your
Used
Fun
Media
I knew my own mother had been in the theater for a while and had taught children, because she used to teach me the pieces that she taught them, but she did much more than that.
Eve Arden
Me
Mother
Own
My Own
More
Had
Knew
Pieces
She
Because
Been
Than
Did
Taught
Children
Theater
While
Them
Much
Teach
Used
I wasn't as used to the new dumb questions, so when men I had once thought of as wise daddies now asked me 'How do you write?' I did not try and spill red wine in their suede pants. I would just smile and say, 'On a typewriter in the mornings when there's nothing else to do.'
Eve Babitz
Smile
Me
You
Wise
Try
Thought
Men
Wine
Nothing
Else
Typewriter
Once
Pants
Say
Would
Spill
Write
Mornings
Had
Red
New
Red Wine
How
Dumb
Questions
Did
Just
Asked
Used
Suede
Now
I write at a desk. I have a room of my own where I can have my computer. I write in there, usually directly onto my computer. It used to be the room where my two sons used to sleep with the dog and the cat, but now it's all mine. It has pictures of art from my books on the walls.
Eve Bunting
Art
Dog
Walls
Own
Books
Mine
My Own
Directly
Computer
Onto
Write
Cat
Sons
Pictures
Where
Room
Used
Now
Two
Desk
Sleep
Now, I talk to athletes who answer questions with a 'yeah'. I realize I used to do that. Or they answer very quickly and you stand there trying to come up with another question to ask. I've seen both sides and it's been very educational.
Evelyn Ashford
You
Seen
Sides
Athletes
Both
Both Sides
Come
Talk
Another
Answer
Yeah
Educational
Been
Question
Questions
Up
Very
Quickly
Trying
Realize
Ask
Stand
Used
Who
Now
I've noticed that since I've been pregnant I see babies everywhere. I love talking to them. I never used to really like kids that much. I guess it comes out of you naturally.
Evelyn Ashford
Love
You
Babies
Guess
Everywhere
Kids
Out
See
Never
Since
Like
Talking
Been
Them
Pregnant
Much
Really
Noticed
Used
Naturally
I used to work for an NGO called Transitions Online, and I was their Director of New Media. I was a very idealistic fellow who thought that he could use blogs, social networks and new media to help promote democracy, human rights and freedom of expression.
Evgeny Morozov
Work
Freedom
Democracy
Director
Rights
Thought
Human Rights
Promote
Online
Networks
Could
He
Freedom Of Expression
Idealistic
New
Fellow
New Media
Blogs
Very
Human
Social
Transitions
Use
Used
Social Networks
Help
Who
Media
Expression
The other two things are... well, I had a huge appetite for old black and white movies on BBC 2. At the weekends they used to run matinees, and the more romantic the better.
Ewan McGregor
Better
Old
Black
Black And White
White
Other
Run
More
Weekends
Had
Well
Huge
Romantic
Movies
Used
Appetite
Things
Two
We need a lot more visibility of queer people in public life. People gotta get used to it.
Ezra Furman
Life
People
Visibility
More
Gotta
Queer
Lot
Get
Public
Public Life
Used
Need
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