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I had written a novel that was more of a classic linear novel, and I worked on it and worked on it for years, and it always seemed like it wouldn't catch fire. At a certain point I just scrapped it all, and I kept maybe 15 percent of it, and I wrote those parts out on note cards.
Jenny Offill
Fire
Those
Out
Classic
Seemed
Percent
More
Point
Had
Written
Catch
Like
Wrote
Parts
Always
Linear
Years
Maybe
Just
Note
Worked
Certain
Certain Point
Novel
Cards
Kept
One of the reasons I'm so competitive - I mean, I'm not winning much anymore - at my age was because I always worked hard and because we have a level playing field. We don't have motorbikes in the peloton anymore.
Jens Voigt
Age
Field
Winning
Because
Always
Anymore
Mean
Worked
Much
Hard
Reasons
Level
Level Playing Field
Playing
Competitive
Playing Field
I looked at the circus, and I looked at the carnival, at the fun fair. But I looked at sleeping accommodations and decided I was too middle class to put up with that! So then I joined the theater and found I could choose my own bedroom. I loved the atmosphere. I loved that we worked till midnight and didn't start till ten.
Jeremy Irons
Class
Own
Sleeping
Too
Carnival
Circus
Atmosphere
Ten
My Own
Joined
Could
Put
Fair
Looked
Till
Bedroom
Up
Middle
Middle Class
Loved
Decided
Theater
Midnight
Then
Worked
Choose
Fun
Found
Start
I succeeded on sort of chutzpah and charm. No technique at all, didn't know what I was doing, but it worked and the character suited me.
Jeremy Irons
Character
Me
Suited
Charm
Know
Sort
Doing
Succeeded
Worked
Technique
It's always nice working with friends. And if you have a director that you've worked with before, you don't have to go through that first learning thing. There's an element of trust there.
Jeremy Irons
You
Director
Learning
Trust
First
Before
Nice
Through
Always
Go
Friends
Worked
Working
Element
Thing
I think I've always been a player who's done better in the second half, who's done better in the fourth quarter. That's the fun time to play, when everything you've worked for the whole game boils down to those last few possessions.
Jeremy Lin
Time
You
Game
Better
Half
Few
Down
Think
Everything
Those
Possessions
Always
Quarter
Been
Done
Worked
Boils
Fun
Whole
Fun Time
Play
Player
Second
Fourth
Last
I worked selling tickets for Dodger Stadium; I delivered pizza; I did every job under the sun. It's the part that sucks as an artist. But I've learned at the end of the day you just have to enjoy your life.
Jeremy Luke
Life
Day
You
End Of The Day
Job
Enjoy
Every
Sun
Delivered
Part
Tickets
Learned
Dodger
End
Selling
Did
Artist
Just
Stadium
Pizza
Worked
Your
Sucks
As much as people were asking me and everybody else on the show constantly if Jon Snow is alive or dead, I think, really, in their heart of hearts, they didn't actually want to know. For us, it felt very important to maintain that secrecy for the fans, and we worked very hard to make sure that worked out.
Jeremy Podeswa
Me
Heart
People
Fans
Important
Think
Everybody
Everybody Else
Else
Secrecy
Alive
Out
Constantly
Jon
Maintain
Know
Dead
Make
Sure
Felt
Were
Very
Hearts
Snow
Want
Us
Worked
Much
Asking
Really
Hard
Show
Actually
One of the challenges of buying local advertising is, how do you know if it worked? How do you know if it's got value? We're moving toward an e-commerce experience for local, an Amazon-like experience for local.
Jeremy Stoppelman
You
Challenges
Experience
Value
Local
Toward
Do You Know
Know
Advertising
Got
How
Moving
Worked
Buying
I worked check-to-check, worked in dead-end jobs my whole life before I got into stand-up, and even during stand-up, I was working at a retail job and Starbucks, all those places.
Jermaine Fowler
Life
Job
Before
Those
Jobs
Retail
Got
Places
Worked
Working
Whole
Even
Starbucks
The forces that have worked hard to stoke populist anger against reform are the very ones that benefit from a health system which puts profits ahead of quality care for its patients.
Jerrold Nadler
Health
Anger
Quality
Care
Benefit
System
Puts
Forces
Very
Reform
Stoke
Patients
Which
Against
Worked
Hard
Populist
Profits
Then, in 2000, John Reid, Elton John's former manager, asked me to audition for the stage version of The Graduate he was producing. So I worked on it, got the part, and after three weeks' rehearsal I was on stage!
Jerry Hall
Me
Three
Stage
Elton
John
Weeks
He
Part
Got
Audition
Version
Manager
Graduate
The Graduate
After
Former
Then
Worked
Asked
Producing
Rehearsal
Reid
I think my voice worked out fine, but it was a lot of work for me. And I was very self-conscious about it. I was a bit self-conscious about writing lyrics too.
Jerry Harrison
Work
Me
Writing
Think
Too
Lyrics
Bit
Out
Fine
About
Voice
Self-Conscious
Lot
Very
Worked
One of my friends, picture of health, worked out his whole life, never had a weight problem. Calls me up one day and says, 'I have pancreatic cancer.' Gone. I've lost too many friends.
Jerry Reinsdorf
Life
Health
Day
Me
Problem
Cancer
Picture
Lost
Gone
Too
Says
One Day
Out
Never
Had
Weight
Calls
His
Up
Friends
Worked
Many
Whole
Galleries began growing in both number and size in the late seventies, when artists who worked in lofts wanted to exhibit their work in spaces similar to the ones the art was made in.
Jerry Saltz
Work
Art
Made
Late
Seventies
Similar
Both
Exhibit
Began
Artists
Size
Wanted
Spaces
Galleries
Worked
Who
Growing
Number
When I went to school, it was to be an electrical engineer. I graduated with a degree in industrial management and worked in trucking for a couple of years. Then I decided that I was bored with the trucking industry and that I would go back to graduate school.
Jeryl Prescott
Management
School
Engineer
Degree
Back
Would
Bored
Industrial
Couple
Industry
Go
Years
Graduate
Graduate School
Graduated
Decided
Then
Worked
Electrical
My mom worked as a housekeeper, and I saw her relationship with her employers - how on the one hand she spent more time with these women than with a lot of her friends, and how in certain ways they were friends. But then they weren't.
Jesmyn Ward
Time
Mom
Relationship
Women
Saw
Spent
Ways
More
Employers
She
Housekeeper
How
Were
Hand
Lot
Friends
Than
Then
Worked
Certain
Her
My mother worked for a white family that lived in one of the mansions on the beach. The husband in the family was a lawyer; he worked for a firm in New Orleans.
Jesmyn Ward
Family
Mother
Husband
Lawyer
White
Beach
He
Firm
New
New Orleans
Worked
Mansions
Lived
Orleans
I worked with several writers at the University of Michigan: Nicholas Delbanco, Peter Ho Davies, Eileen Pollack, Laura Kasischke, and Thomas Lynch, who told me the same thing over and over again: Persist. Read, write, and improve: tell your stories.
Jesmyn Ward
Me
Same Thing
Thomas
Several
Tell
Laura
Write
Writers
Over
Read
Persist
Improve
Michigan
Same
Stories
Again
Worked
Your
Who
Peter
Thing
University
I think that everybody's worked on shows where you feel like maybe a divide has happened between the talent and the crew. Those are the hardest jobs to do your best in, because as you're performing, you're aware that the people around you, because they haven't been afforded the respect that they deserve, they're not as invested.
Jessalyn Gilsig
Best
You
Respect
People
Think
Crew
Everybody
Those
Jobs
Divide
Invested
Feel
Between
Do Your Best
Talent
Performing
Like
Because
Around
Been
Afforded
Maybe
Where
Happened
Worked
Your
Shows
Aware
Deserve
Hardest
I have worked hard to build relationships between Jewish people and black people.
Jesse Jackson
People
Black
Build
Jewish People
Relationships
Between
Worked
Hard
Jewish
When I'm singing, that's all me. That's from the bottom of my heart - it's everything I've worked for. When you're on stage, there are no guidelines. No one's telling me what to do!
Jesse McCartney
Me
You
Heart
Singing
Stage
Everything
Guidelines
Telling
Bottom
Worked
I'm a victim of maybe circumstances, but look at how it worked out.
Jessica Hahn
Victim
Circumstances
Out
Look
How
Maybe
Worked
I did 'I'd Do Anything,' and then a play and then 'A Little Light Music.' I played jazz in a night club where nobody listened to me for two years. I sold cereal in a market for a while. I worked in a clothes shop in Brixton. But that's the life of an actor. You never really know when your next job is coming.
Jessie Buckley
Life
Music
Me
You
Light
Job
Clothes
Club
Jazz
Market
Sold
Never
Nobody
Know
Coming
Years
Did
Shop
Listened
Where
Anything
While
Little
Cereal
Then
Worked
Really
Next
Your
Actor
Play
Played
Night
Two
I am incredibly lucky. I worked hard for my luck as well. I have made choices to do things because I wanted them to do them, not because they were the right thing to do.
Jessie Buckley
Made
Luck
Incredibly
Right Thing
Well
Because
Am
Were
Wanted
The Right Thing
Them
Worked
Choices
Hard
Lucky
Right
Thing
Things
I collaborated on most of my dance numbers, literally 50/50, with the choreographers I worked with.
Jessie Matthews
Dance
Collaborated
Most
Literally
Worked
Numbers
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