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Doctors and nurses, with their training and their experiences, they would be able to detect unusual patterns of disease. That's why we say it is important for every country to have a proper surveillance system. The function of the surveillance system is to detect unusual patterns of diseases.
Margaret Chan
Training
Country
Doctors
Important
Every
Nurses
Say
System
Would
Would-Be
Detect
Able
Proper
Unusual
Surveillance
Disease
Diseases
Experiences
Patterns
Function
Why
As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.
Margaret Oliphant
Home
Me
You
Trouble
Joke
Worst
Would
Would-Be
Abroad
Pictures
Beyond
Look
Sort
Always
Got
Going
Things
Museums
I'm so tired of this argument that all we ever do is under Kremlin orders and so and so forth. Tell me, how is it possible? I am not on the air. If you watch RT, you will see that all of our shows are hosted by people to whom it would be impossible to tell them anything.
Margarita Simonyan
Me
Tired
You
People
Impossible
Will
Argument
Our
Air
Possible
Tell
Would
Would-Be
See
How
Am
Kremlin
Anything
Orders
Them
Forth
Shows
Whom
Ever
Watch
Negroland is my name for a small region of Negro America where residents were sheltered by a certain amount of privilege and plenty. Children in Negroland were warned that few Negroes enjoyed privilege or plenty and that most whites would be glad to see them returned to indigence, deference and subservience.
Margo Jefferson
Few
Negroes
Plenty
Would
Would-Be
See
Small
Glad
Name
Most
Returned
Sheltered
Were
Privilege
America
Where
Children
Region
Them
Warned
Certain
Whites
Residents
Amount
Enjoyed
I am just so grateful for every single day, and if I could just not think past today, I would be living the life that I think God meant me to live.
Margo Martindale
Life
Today
God
Day
Me
Grateful
Single
Past
Live
Living
Every
Think
Would
Would-Be
Could
Single Day
Am
Just
If I Could
Meant
Every Single Day
'Where'd You Go, Bernadette' is an epistolary novel - one told in letters. I had no idea how much fun it would be, puzzling together the plot with letters and documents.
Maria Semple
You
Together
Plot
Would
Would-Be
No Idea
Had
Idea
Puzzling
Documents
How
How Much
Go
Much
Fun
Novel
Letters
At the risk of being a fuddy-duddy I don't have a computer; I don't have e-mail; and I really don't need something in my house that I would be sitting in front of for hours.
Marian McPartland
Would
Would-Be
Something
Risk
Computer
Hours
House
Sitting
Front
Being
Really
Need
I chose my pen name when I was ten, because I knew even then that my legal name would be more trouble than it was worth.
Marie Brennan
Legal
Worth
Trouble
Pen
Would
Would-Be
Ten
More
Knew
Name
Because
Than
Then
Even
Chose
I tried out various experiments described in treatises on physics and chemistry, and the results were sometimes unexpected. At times, I would be encouraged by a little unhoped-for success; at others, I would be in the deepest despair because of accidents and failures resulting from my inexperience.
Marie Curie
Success
Physics
Sometimes
Chemistry
Accidents
Despair
Others
Out
Would
Would-Be
Tried
Various
Resulting
Results
Failures
Because
Inexperience
Were
Encouraged
Times
Unexpected
Experiments
Little
Deepest
It would be nice to see a fashion range that is geared towards a vibrant, sexual, confident 50-something.
Marie Helvin
Fashion
Be Nice
Nice
Range
Would
Would-Be
Geared
Sexual
See
Towards
Confident
Vibrant
I had an erroneous idea that writing a duology would be simpler than writing a trilogy because I would get to cut out the middle book. It turns out it was actually harder because 'Wildcard' became this combination of having to write a book two and three at the same time.
Marie Lu
Time
Book
Writing
Three
Out
Would
Would-Be
Trilogy
Having
Write
Simpler
Had
Idea
Combination
Became
Because
Than
Get
Same
Same Time
Middle
Cut
Turns
Harder
Actually
Two
There are certainly stories that I used to tell myself as a kid that did influence 'The Cabinet of Wonders.' There's a scene in the novel where there's a flood that bursts through the castle, and one of my favorite things to do when I was a kid at school was imagine what school would be like if there was a sudden flood.
Marie Rutkoski
Myself
School
Kid
Favorite
Tell
Would
Favorite Things
Would-Be
Scene
Castle
Through
Cabinet
Like
Did
Wonders
Influence
Where
Stories
Bursts
Used
Certainly
Novel
Sudden
Flood
Things
Imagine
I'm the sort of person who would be perfectly happy spending an entire day in a rare books room.
Marie Rutkoski
Day
Happy
Rare
Spending
Books
Would
Would-Be
Entire
Perfectly
Sort
Person
Room
Who
Be able to meet any deadline, even if your work is done less well than it would be if you had all the time you would have preferred.
Marilyn vos Savant
Work
Time
You
Meet
Would
Would-Be
Able
Had
Well
Deadline
Than
Any
Done
Preferred
Your
Less
Even
I didn't get paid for performances most of my life. If I did, I would be billionaire now, and I'm not.
Marina Abramovic
Life
My Life
Would
Would-Be
Performance
Most
Get
Did
Paid
Billionaire
Now
I used to have a recurring dream where I was at a party in a country house, surrounded by the same people each evening. Everyone would be singing and dancing and after a while I came to know the people; though, of course, they never really existed.
Marina Abramovic
People
Country
Singing
Party
Everyone
Dancing
Though
Dream
Would
Would-Be
Never
Recurring
Know
House
Course
Came
Existed
Surrounded
Same
Where
After
While
Really
Used
Each
Evening
I would be ready to become a dad if I was with the right person. I'd like a boy, though. Because they're in charge.
Mario Balotelli
Right Person
Become
Though
Charge
Would
Would-Be
Like
Because
Boy
Ready
Person
Dad
Right
My last meal? The food would be much less significant than the company.
Mario Batali
Food
Meal
Significant
Would
Would-Be
Than
Much
Less
Company
Last
I hate to think of a day where a compelling book or a compelling authorial voice would be lost simply because that person doesn't have a Web site. But I think that, to use the Internet in a positive way, to turn people on to reading, is something that authors shouldn't really shy away from necessarily.
Marisha Pessl
Positive
Day
Book
Hate
People
Internet
Reading
Lost
Think
Positive Way
Way
Would
Would-Be
Web
Web Site
Something
Voice
Simply
Because
Person
Site
Authors
Where
Turn
Really
Use
Away
Compelling
Necessarily
Shy
I am the youngest of four siblings, and we're all so close. I don't know where I would be without my brothers and sister. I secretly believe that my parents love me the most!
Marissa Jaret Winokur
Love
Me
Love Me
Parents
Sister
Believe
Secretly
Would
Would-Be
Brothers
Know
Most
Without
Am
Close
Where
Youngest
Four
Sibling
The most exciting time is when I think of an idea and how I imagine I can make it. It would be wonderful if there was a projector inside my eye that and it could just put the idea on the screen for people to see.
Marjane Satrapi
Time
People
Wonderful
Think
Eye
Would
Would-Be
Inside
See
Could
Put
Exciting
Exciting Time
Idea
Most
Make
How
Just
Screen
Imagine
Actors are not all there when it comes to things like relationships. The thing about us is we still greatly enjoy each other. If it weren't for her support it would be hard for me to do what I am doing now.
Mark-Paul Gosselaar
Me
Enjoy
Other
Relationships
Would
Would-Be
About
Support
Like
Am
Still
Doing
Were
Greatly
Us
Hard
Each
Now
Actor
Her
Thing
Things
As a writer, you're making a pact with the reader; you're saying, 'Look, I know and you know that if this book was really a murder investigation, it would be a thousand pages long and would be very dull, and you would be very unhappy with the ending.'
Mark Billingham
Saying
You
Book
Ending
Unhappy
Long
Thousand
Would
Would-Be
Writer
Investigation
Know
Look
Reader
Making
Dull
Very
Pact
Really
Pages
In the Army, I grew up with this view that you're asked to do anything that is illegal or immoral or unethical, then that would be the point at which you have to consider resignation, and you'd be willing to do that.
Mark Esper
You
Army
Consider
Willing
Would
Would-Be
Immoral
Point
Up
Unethical
Grew
Anything
Which
Then
Asked
View
Illegal
Resignation
If I was 13 years old and Kurt Cobain tweeted me some advice or even just said hi, my whole world would be affected by that.
Mark Foster
Me
World
Old
Advice
Hi
Would
Would-Be
Some
Said
Affected
Years
Kurt
Kurt Cobain
Just
Whole
Even
If there was one key to happiness in love and life and possibly even success, it would be to go into each conversation you have with this commandment to yourself front and foremost in your mind, 'Just Listen' and be more interested than interesting, more fascinated than fascinating, and more adoring than adorable.
Mark Goulston
Happiness
Life
Success
Love
You
Conversation
Yourself
Key
Mind
Possibly
Would
Would-Be
More
Adorable
Adoring
Go
Commandment
Foremost
Than
Front
Listen
Just
Interested
Interesting
Your
Fascinated
Fascinating
Even
Each
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