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I previously worked as the director of VisionSpring, a non-profit dedicated to distributing glasses to people in need.
Neil Blumenthal
Director
People
Glasses
Worked
Dedicated
Need
My grandmother, Dorothy Walker Bush, worked long, hard hours for the Red Cross during World War II because it was the right thing to do for her community. The example of his parents established my father's belief that every human has the capacity to serve their fellow man.
Neil Bush
War
Man
World
Father
Example
Long
Parents
Community
Every
Right Thing
Cross
Red
Hours
Fellow
Fellow Man
Because
His
Walker
Human
Established
The Right Thing
Dorothy
Bush
Capacity
Worked
Grandmother
Hard
Belief
Serve
Her
Right
Thing
World War
World War II
I don't get on with novelists, don't enjoy their company. Once you've worked for a publisher, you understand the species, see them in their natural habitat, and it's not always pretty.
Neil Cross
You
Natural
Habitat
Enjoy
Once
See
Pretty
Understand
Always
Get
Them
Worked
Company
Novelists
Species
Publisher
As a kid, I would get my parents to drop me off at my local library on their way to work during the summer holidays, and I would walk home at night. For several years, I read the children's library until I finished the children's library. Then I moved into the adult library and slowly worked my way through them.
Neil Gaiman
Work
Home
Me
Library
Walk
Parents
Finished
Drop
Local
Summer
Way
Several
Kid
Would
Slowly
Through
Adult
Until
Read
Years
Off
Get
Moved
Children
Holidays
Them
Then
Worked
Night
For the last decade, I've worked as a federal judge in a court that spans six Western states, serving about 20 percent of the continental United States and about 18 million people. The men and women I've worked with at every level in our circuit are an inspiration to me.
Neil Gorsuch
Me
Women
People
Judge
Men
Men And Women
Every
Our
Circuit
States
About
Percent
Inspiration
Federal
Federal Judge
Court
Continental
Western
Decade
Six
Spans
Worked
United
United States
Level
Million
Million People
Serving
Last
Last Decade
I've also worked hard portraying an Ireland which is fast disappearing. Ireland was a very depressed and difficult place in the 1980s, and I've tried to include that in the script. I worked really hard to find the heart of the book.
Neil Jordan
Heart
Book
Difficult
Tried
Find
Disappearing
Also
Ireland
Very
Place
Which
Script
Depressed
Worked
Really
Hard
Include
Fast
Portraying
Before babies, I worked very hard to make sure I understood my surroundings and figured out where I fit in the world, whether it was at work or in a social situation.
Neil Patrick Harris
Work
World
Before
Situation
Babies
Out
Make
Sure
Understood
Fit
Surroundings
Very
Where
Whether
Social
Worked
Hard
Figured
I worked at Mar-a-Lago for Trump, for some parties, and he seemed nice enough - but I don't think he's presidential. I think he's incompetent; I disagree with his policies, and I'm nervous as an American.
Neil Sedaka
Disagree
Nervous
Nice
Think
Enough
Presidential
Some
Seemed
He
Parties
Policies
His
Trump
American
Worked
Incompetent
Moms Mabley blazed a path for female stand-ups in a housecoat and floppy hat. Phyllis Diller worked equally hard to make herself unattractive to men and non-threatening to women.
Nell Scovell
Women
Path
Men
Herself
Hat
Unattractive
Make
Equally
Female
Worked
Hard
Moms
I've worked on over twenty TV staffs, and nine out of ten male colleagues are wonderful, inclusive, and professional. Still, there's usually one guy - the Tenth Man - who turns a fun job into a dental appointment.
Nell Scovell
Man
Wonderful
Job
Inclusive
Nine
Colleagues
Out
TV
Guy
Ten
Tenth
Over
Still
Male
Dental
Worked
Turns
Who
Fun
Professional
Twenty
Appointment
I went out there for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that hired me was out of town Tuesday.
Nelson Algren
Me
Monday
Out
Thousand
Guy
Wednesday
Week
Fired
Town
Got
Hired
Tuesday
Worked
I love Robyn, not just because we've worked together. I mean, that's why we've worked together - because I love her.
Neneh Cherry
Love
Together
Because
Just
Just Because
Mean
Worked
Why
Her
I always vowed I would never get married because no marriage in my family had worked, really. But you get to a place in your relationship where you're like, 'OK, it's time.'
Neve Campbell
Time
Family
Relationship
You
Marriage
OK
Married
Would
Never
Had
Like
Vowed
Because
Always
Get
Get Married
Where
Place
Worked
Really
Your
I took a gap year myself after high school and worked on a farm near Lyon, France. I stayed with the Vallet family, picked and packed fruit, and discovered that red wine can be a breakfast drink. That led to further travel as a university student.
Nicholas Kristof
Myself
Family
Travel
Fruit
School
Wine
Year
Breakfast
Farm
Took
France
Further
High
Stayed
High School
Drink
Student
Picked
Red
Red Wine
Discovered
Led
After
Packed
Worked
Gap
Near
University
There are other issues I have felt more emotionally connected to, like China, where I lived and worked for some time. I was living there when Tiananmen Square erupted.
Nicholas Kristof
Time
Living
Other
Some
More
Emotionally
Like
Felt
Issues
Square
Where
China
Worked
Connected
Lived
I was always a filmmaker before I was anything else. If I was always anything, I was a storyteller, and it never really made much of a difference to me what medium I worked in.
Nicholas Meyer
Me
Made
Before
Medium
Else
Never
Always
Difference
Anything
Anything Else
Storyteller
Worked
Much
Really
Filmmaker
To be quite honest, I've been very blessed when I've worked with Hollywood. The studios that have purchased my work to be adapted to film have really liked the work and wanted to stay as close as they could to what the book was.
Nicholas Sparks
Work
Book
Blessed
Stay
Purchased
Could
Studios
Liked
Been
Very
Close
Quite
Wanted
Hollywood
Worked
Really
Film
Honest
Adapted
What I hope is in five years' time, I can go to the British people in the election and say: Lots of you doubted that coalition politics worked, but it has worked.
Nick Clegg
Politics
Hope
Time
You
People
Election
British People
Say
Go
Years
Lots
Five
Worked
Doubted
Coalition
British
My dad was a longshoreman in the Port of Miami. Tough job. I worked down there in the summer once. One day. Never again. My dad was a no-nonsense guy. As a kid, I hated his rules, but as a man, I understand what he was teaching. He taught me you have to work hard for everything you get.
Nick Ferguson
Work
Day
Me
You
Man
Work Hard
Job
Tough
Down
Summer
Everything
Once
Kid
Rules
One Day
Hated
Guy
Tough Job
Never
He
Understand
His
Miami
Get
Taught
Again
Worked
Hard
Teaching
Dad
Port
My character started off on 'Chicago P.D.' as the brother to Detective Jake Halstead, and then I also played on 'Chicago Fire.' So, I really worked on both shows before 'Chicago Med' even started.
Nick Gehlfuss
Character
Fire
Before
Detective
Brother
Both
Also
Off
Chicago
Then
Worked
Really
Even
Shows
Played
Started
I'm proud of the work that we did, and my hope is that everyone who worked on 'Kroll Show,' it will be a credit that people will be like, 'Oh, you worked on that show? The word on that show was that it was good.'
Nick Kroll
Work
Hope
Good
You
People
Word
Will
Everyone
Like
Proud
Did
Oh
Worked
Show
Who
Credit
I was getting a degree in accounting, and I was going to go off and account. And as it worked out, I haven't accounted for anything since.
Nick Nurse
Degree
Out
Since
Go
Off
Account
Accounting
Getting
Going
Anything
Worked
I worked a lot in Chicago's theater scene as a fight choreographer. And so I do have a lot of experience in stage combat and also in Kabuki dance and Kabuki theater.
Nick Offerman
Fight
Experience
Dance
Stage
Scene
Combat
Also
Lot
Chicago
Theater
Worked
Choreographer
The biggest temptation I believe is to feel comfortable, to feel like you've worked through all of that here on Earth, and are satisfied with this life.
Nick Vujicic
Life
You
Believe
Satisfied
Earth
Temptation
Through
Feel
Like
Comfortable
Biggest
Worked
Here
When I worked at Dior, Paris Hilton and Kathy Hilton came one time and they were kind of crazy.
Nico Santos
Time
Crazy
Kind
One Time
Dior
Paris
Paris Hilton
Hilton
Came
Were
Worked
It wasn't until I worked on 'Crazy Rich Asians' that I all of a sudden have this Asian crew of friends that I became super close with.
Nico Santos
Crazy
Rich
Crew
Super
Until
Became
Friends
Close
Asian
Asians
Worked
Sudden
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