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Others may recognise their world in 'Eat Sleep Work Repeat'. This podcast is the side project of Bruce Daisley, who works at Twitter. It consists of him talking to experts about what makes us happy at work and why.
David Hepworth
Work
Happy
World
Twitter
Others
Side
Project
Recognise
Consists
Eat
About
Bruce
Him
Talking
Makes
Repeat
May
Experts
Us
Who
Works
Why
Sleep
The English Channel is such a narrow little puddle, you cannot help wondering why no invader has succeeded in crossing it since 1066.
David Hewson
You
Channel
Invader
Crossing
Since
Narrow
Wondering
Cannot
Little
Succeeded
Help
English
Why
If you look at the play very closely, this is a thirdhand report of what a wonderful hero Macbeth is for saving Scotland. And in the next scene, he's planning to murder Duncan, and you never really know why or what's behind Macbeth.
David Hewson
You
Wonderful
Hero
Saving
Macbeth
Scene
Never
He
Know
Look
Very
Scotland
Report
Closely
Behind
Really
Next
Planning
Why
Play
I don't know why I'm alive but I know there's a reason for it.
David Johansen
Alive
Know
Reason
Why
Why is it that if you hit a shot to within a tenth of an inch of the hole, it's a great shot, but if it goes in, it's luck?
David L. Wolper
Great
You
Luck
Tenth
Within
Hit
Goes
Hole
Shot
Inch
Why
You have to talk about why things happened the way they did. You can't actually explain my political life except by a series of situations rather than by some carefully constructed, rigidly progressed ascendancy.
David Lange
Life
You
Political
Carefully
Way
Some
About
Rather
Constructed
Except
Talk
Political Life
Than
Did
Situations
Ascendancy
Happened
Explain
Series
Why
Actually
Things
I think people remember pictures not dialogue. That's why I like pictures.
David Lean
People
Remember
Think
Pictures
Like
Dialogue
Why
Film is a collaborative art form. I don't know why you wouldn't recognize the stunt performers.
David Leitch
Art
You
Collaborative
Recognize
Performers
Know
Stunt
Art Form
Form
Film
Why
I'm interested in why people compromise when they shouldn't. It comes back to what V's about in a sense. We've all got ideals, but given the right circumstances, we'll forget about them and put them behind us. I'm very interested in why people do that.
David Lloyd
People
Sense
Back
Circumstances
About
Given
Compromise
Put
Ideals
Got
Very
Forget
Behind
Interested
Them
Us
Why
Right
I understand why people do vote on the conservative side of the ticket because people have a tendency to go for strong governments when really, from an idealistic point of view, it's a bad thing.
David Lloyd
Vote
People
Conservative
Strong
Side
Bad
Point
Tendency
Point Of View
Bad Thing
Idealistic
Ticket
Because
Understand
Go
Governments
Really
View
Why
Thing
I like the idea that songs can communicate in a way no other media can. That's why I write them.
David Longstreth
Communicate
Other
Way
Write
Songs
Idea
Like
Them
Media
Why
Event cinema is what it is, and I understand why it's successful. It started with things like 'Jaws,' which are extraordinary movies. But what we've lost are great character films which are beautifully directed and had great movie stars in them. Films that were about something rather than about spectacle.
David MacKenzie
Great
Character
Cinema
Lost
Stars
Films
Extraordinary
About
Great Movie
Something
Directed
Rather
Had
Like
Beautifully
Understand
Were
Than
Movie
Which
Movie Stars
Movies
Them
Successful
Jaws
Event
Why
Things
Spectacle
Started
They say you can't study Kabbalah until you are at least 40 years old. You know why? You have to have experienced at least one generation making the same mistakes as the previous one.
David Mamet
You
Generation
Old
Mistakes
Say
At Least One
Previous
Study
Know
Until
Making
Least
Years
Same
Same Mistakes
Experienced
They Say
Why
Why should sports men and women get punished harsher than people in the normal world?
David Millar
Sports
Women
People
World
Men
Men And Women
Punished
Normal
Than
Get
Should
Why
There's a disease that young writers are susceptible to, which is, I will do this because I can - hubris, I suppose - without stopping to work out why.
David Mitchell
Work
Will
Young
Out
Writers
Suppose
Because
Without
Hubris
Disease
Susceptible
Stopping
Which
Young Writers
Work Out
Why
As actors, we often look for the scene, big moments that say, 'This is why you have to do this role.'
David Morse
You
Big
Say
Scene
Look
Role
Often
Moments
Actor
Why
The Jewish tradition presents itself as the greatest revelation of God's truth that can be known in the world. That is why we call ourselves 'the chosen people.' It is not that we choose ourselves. It means that we have been elected by God and given the Torah.
David Novak
Truth
God
People
World
Torah
Ourselves
Given
Call
Known
Greatest
Revelation
Tradition
Been
Itself
Elected
Means
Choose
Chosen
Why
Presents
Jewish
Sometimes you just don't feel the same everyday, it doesn't matter what you do, but when you have people looking forward to seeing you perform for them, that puts you in the mood, and that's natural in Boston. That's why it's such a special place to play.
David Ortiz
You
Natural
People
Sometimes
Matter
Looking
Everyday
Mood
Seeing
Boston
Puts
Feel
Perform
Looking Forward
Same
Just
Place
Them
Special
Forward
Special Place
Why
Play
People always ask me, 'Why so many historical dramas?' Because those are the best roles I get to play, and I get to play heroes in those roles.
David Oyelowo
Best
Me
People
Heroes
Dramas
Those
Because
Always
Historical
Get
Roles
Ask
Many
Why
Play
I can't for the life of me think of the link between Iraq and why a fruit vendor self-immolates in Tunisia and cracks this seemingly solid crust that turns out to be so fragile that societal unrest touches off.
David Petraeus
Life
Me
Fruit
Think
Solid
Out
Seemingly
Unrest
Between
Crust
Iraq
Off
Link
Cracks
Tunisia
Turns
Why
Societal
Fragile
The key to understanding my career is that I was never into technology. From the beginning, I brought an outsider's point of view, which is why I write for a layman's publication.
David Pogue
Technology
Key
Understanding
Beginning
Brought
Point
Layman
Point Of View
Write
Never
Outsider
Which
View
Publication
Why
Career
I have let half-decades elapse between books because books have to be writte and writing is awful, but if you are the type of person who makes things, there is no profit in worrying about how or why or when the next project will come into being beyond simply acknowledging that it is inevitable that it will be very soon.
David Rakoff
You
Writing
Will
Inevitable
Profit
Type
Project
Books
Worrying
About
Simply
Soon
Between
Come
Beyond
Because
Makes
How
Very
Person
Being
Acknowledging
Next
Who
Why
Awful
Things
Why, I ask, isn't it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously by no one, least of all by the advertising men who create it?
David Riesman
Seriously
Men
Possible
Fraud
No-One
Taken
Advertising
Least
America
Fantastic
Ask
Create
Who
Whole
Why
Image
Presenting
This is sports. In sports, you win and you lose. That's the nature of sports. You can't get away from that part of it. And if you get too hung up on the losing part, then you miss the boat. The competition part, a game like that, is why you play sports. That is as good as it gets.
David Robinson
Good
Nature
You
Game
Sports
Competition
Win
Losing
Lose
Too
Hung
Part
Miss
Like
Up
Get
Gets
Boat
Then
Why
Away
Play
When Superman was originally created, by Siegel and Shuster, they were two Jewish immigrants that were desperately trying to assimilate into America. They were having a hard time because they were Jewish. They wanted to get in to mainstream publishing but they couldn't. That's why they, and a lot of Jewish guys, went into comic books.
David S. Goyer
Time
Superman
Desperately
Books
Immigrants
Guys
Having
Mainstream
Because
Comic
Comic Books
Were
Lot
America
Get
Trying
Wanted
Created
Hard
Hard Time
Originally
Why
Publishing
Assimilate
Two
Jewish
Who among us is so certain of our identity? Who hasn't been asked, 'What's your background?' and hesitated, even for a split second, to answer their inquisitor. Howard Jacobson's 'The Finkler Question' forces us to ask that of ourselves, and that's why it's a must read, no matter what your background.
David Sax
Matter
Our
Background
Ourselves
Must
Split
Identity
Read
Forces
Answer
Been
Question
Ask
Us
Asked
Certain
Your
Who
Even
Why
Among
Second
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