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Los Angeles is an uncanny place to live. It has many science fiction qualities. For example, when I'm standing in line at the supermarket and I recognise the person in front of me, but I can't figure out how I know them. Suddenly, I realise I saw them in some random commercial six years ago.
Martine Syms
Me
Science
Random
Example
Live
Saw
Recognise
Out
Some
Angeles
Supermarket
For Example
Know
Qualities
Science Fiction
How
Los
Los Angeles
Line
Years
Years Ago
Commercial
Person
Front
Six
Fiction
Realise
Place
Them
Figure
Standing
Many
Suddenly
Many, many years ago, I was one of the few conductors who talked to the audience and now a lot of classical conductors have figured it out... otherwise, you just get the back of someone's head playing music you could hear on a CD. It's not enough anymore.
Marvin Hamlisch
Music
You
Few
Enough
Otherwise
Back
Out
Classical
Someone
Could
Head
Talked
Audience
Hear
Years
Years Ago
Lot
Conductors
Get
Just
Anymore
Figured
Who
Many
Now
Playing
I got cocky and I stopped taking my vitamins. It was an inconvenience to have a suitcase full of vitamins with me on the road. About two years ago, it caught up with me.
Mary Ann Mobley
Me
Suitcase
Vitamins
About
Road
Taking
Got
Caught
Years
Years Ago
Up
Stopped
Full
Cocky
Inconvenience
Two
The one thing I have wanted to stay away from is the steroids. When I had an attack two years ago in my home state of Mississippi, they put me on steroids, thinking they were doing the right thing, and I had a violent reaction.
Mary Ann Mobley
Home
Me
Doing The Right Thing
Thinking
State
Right Thing
One Thing
Stay
Attack
Had
Put
Steroids
Mississippi
Reaction
Doing
Were
Years
Years Ago
The One Thing
Wanted
The Right Thing
Home State
Away
Right
Thing
Violent
Two
I mainly cook British food with a few things I've had on my holidays. I went to the Canary Islands a few years ago, and we had all sorts of different mushrooms on brioche with pancetta on top, and it was delicious. I had it most days for lunch, so I thought, 'I'll do that when I get back,' and now it's in my cookbook, an absolute favourite.
Mary Berry
Food
Thought
Few
Lunch
Mushrooms
Back
Top
Favourite
Absolute
Delicious
Had
Mainly
Days
Most
Sort
Islands
Years
Years Ago
Canary
Get
Few Things
Different
Holidays
Cook
Cookbook
Now
Things
British
I won't cook in deep fat. Years ago, I met a fireman who said most kitchen fires were caused by deep fat, and I don't think that's changed. Oven chips are good enough for my grandchildren, and they're chuffed with that.
Mary Berry
Good
Met
Think
Changed
Enough
Kitchen
Fireman
Fires
Oven
Most
Said
Caused
Were
Years
Years Ago
Grandchildren
Chips
Cook
Who
Deep
Fat
My grandmother Izzy taught me to balance her checkbook when I was 6 years old. She would sign the checks after I paid the bills. I had a chuckle with my grandmother recently on how 'unbalanced' her checkbook must have been years ago.
Mary Callahan Erdoes
Me
Balance
Old
Chuckle
Sign
Must
Would
Unbalanced
Had
Checks
She
How
Been
Years
Years Ago
Taught
After
Grandmother
Paid
Bills
Her
Recently
One hot summer night in San Francisco, roughly 10 years ago, I was sitting in a crowded Pacific Heights restaurant when Alice Adams walked in with a man. She was about 60 at the time, and she was wearing a skirt that fell an inch or so above her knees and flat heels without stockings.
Mary Gaitskill
Time
Man
Heights
Alice
Summer
Francisco
Restaurant
Wearing
About
Above
Crowded
Knees
Hot
Fell
She
Without
Years
Years Ago
Walked
Stockings
Sitting
Flat
San
Pacific
San Francisco
Heels
Inch
Skirt
Roughly
Her
Night
I wasn't thinking about my pension plan until about two years ago. When I was in my twenties, the idea that you'd be thinking of taking a job based on its health-care policy was completely foreign. But these days young people are thinking about these things.
Mary Gordon
You
People
Job
Young
Thinking
Pension
About
Taking
Idea
Days
Until
Policy
Foreign
Years
Years Ago
Young People
Plan
Twenties
Based
Things
Two
I'm greedy, but I've always watched what I eat because I want to look good. I gave up butter, cream and sugar years ago.
Mary Quant
Good
Greedy
Sugar
Gave
Eat
Look
Because
Always
Years
Years Ago
Up
Want
Cream
Butter
Watched
Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn't afford to run a car.
Mary Wesley
Car
Edge
Living
Run
Cottage
Years
Years Ago
Afford
Lovely
Twenty
I would never want to live in L.A., and I made that decision years ago, so I never chose that path for myself, although I have much respect for those that do it at a high level.
Matt Cameron
Myself
Respect
Path
Decision
Made
Live
Those
High
Would
High Level
Never
Although
Years
Years Ago
Want
Much
Chose
Level
My soul existed in an African vessel hundreds of years ago as the leader of a tribe, and my tribe fought for honor.
Matt Hardy
Soul
Honor
Leader
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Years
Tribe
My Soul
Years
Years Ago
Existed
Vessel
African
Fought
I'm a very recent convert to the gay scene. I went to a party a couple of years ago and met a very nice man who took me under his wing and started taking me out to clubs. It was a revelation.
Matt Lucas
Me
Gay
Man
Party
Met
Nice
Took
Out
Wing
Scene
Taking
Couple
Couple Of Years Ago
Revelation
His
Years
Years Ago
Very
Clubs
Convert
Who
Started
Recent
To me, writing is remembering something funny that happened, or maybe something I said seven years ago.
Matthew Perry
Funny
Me
Writing
Seven
Something
Remembering
Said
Years
Years Ago
Maybe
Happened
I let my game do the talking. I've had incidents like that but when I compare my own story to the stories that have happened forty or fifty years ago particularly to Jackie Robinson for example.
Maurice Ashley
Game
Example
Own
My Own
Had
Like
For Example
Particularly
Talking
Robinson
Years
Years Ago
Jackie
Jackie Robinson
Stories
Happened
Story
Fifty
Forty
Incidents
Compare
If you look at the sponsors who were in the sport 15 years ago compared to now there are a lot fewer. Why? Because those runners who took drugs tainted the sport. They tainted all of us in it.
Maurice Greene
You
Took
Those
Runners
Tainted
Sponsors
Look
Sport
Because
Were
Years
Years Ago
Lot
Fewer
Us
Who
Compared
Now
Why
I remember when being a 'a company man' was a badge of honor; today in Silicon Valley it may brand you a loser or, in the best case scenario, someone afraid to take risks. Ten years ago, if you saw a resume that had multiple jobs in ten years, you would be worried about the capability of the individual. Not so now.
Maynard Webb
Today
Best
You
Man
Risks
Resume
Remember
Honor
Worried
Valley
Saw
Jobs
Would
Would-Be
Silicon
Silicon Valley
About
Case
Someone
Ten
Scenario
Ten Years
Ten Years Ago
Individual
Take
Had
Badge
Remember When
Loser
Years
Years Ago
Brand
May
Afraid
Being
Capability
Company
Multiple
Now
My life is not very different from what it was 20 years ago. In fact, my career hasn't changed much since I was 22.
Melvyn Bragg
Life
My Life
Changed
Fact
Since
Years
Years Ago
Very
Different
In Fact
Much
Career
I kept looking to do songs that were written years ago and would live or outlive all of us, and the one thing they had in common was Sinatra.
Michael Bolton
Looking
Live
Would
One Thing
Outlive
Had
Songs
Written
Sinatra
Were
Years
Years Ago
Common
The One Thing
Us
Thing
Kept
We've taken on health care in a big way in our office, ever since nine years ago when I was paralyzed. I was in eight different hospitals, three different rehab centers, and all the rooms were dreadful. As an architect, designer, and patient, I can do something to help.
Michael Graves
Health
Care
Three
Big
Patient
Rehab
Nine
Our
Way
Dreadful
Paralyzed
Architect
Something
Hospitals
Taken
Since
Health Care
Were
Years
Years Ago
Office
Eight
Different
Big Way
Centers
Rooms
Help
Ever
Designer
Seventy years ago this November, Vladimir Lenin created the modern totalitarian state, transforming simpler forms of tyranny into history's most sophisticated apparatus of rule by terror.
Michael Johns
History
November
Tyranny
State
Rule
Seventy
Totalitarian
Totalitarian State
Simpler
Sophisticated
Most
Terror
Years
Years Ago
Modern
Transforming
Forms
Lenin
Created
Apparatus
How many times have I heard people say, 'I became very ill a couple of years ago; it got very serious, and I look back and give thanks for how it changed me and the truth I found.'
Michael Leunig
Truth
Me
People
Thanks
Changed
Back
Say
People Say
Give
Look
Couple
Couple Of Years Ago
Became
Got
How
How Many Times
Years
Years Ago
Heard
Very
Times
Ill
Many
Serious
Found
I give thanks for the fact that I can get this stick with a bit of steel nib on the end, dip it in some black carbon stuff, and draw on paper. Now, people did it the same way 2,000 years ago. And there's something lovely about that play, and making mud pies and a mess. That's a lovely privilege.
Michael Leunig
People
Black
Thanks
Way
Paper
Bit
Draw
Dip
Some
About
Give
Something
Steel
Fact
Stuff
Mess
Stick
Making
Years
Years Ago
End
Privilege
Get
Did
Same
Lovely
Mud
Now
Carbon
Play
As filmmakers, we want the audience to have the most complete experience they can. For example, I interviewed Stanley Kubrick years ago around the time of '2001: A Space Odyssey.' I was going to see the film that night in London, and he insisted I sit in one of four seats in the theater for the best view or not watch the film.
Michael Mann
Time
Best
Experience
Space
Example
Sit
Complete
See
London
Insisted
He
For Example
Most
Around
Audience
Kubrick
Years
Years Ago
Odyssey
Going
Want
Theater
View
Stanley
Stanley Kubrick
Film
Seats
Four
Watch
Night
Filmmakers
I got my first lifetime achievement award years ago, and I was very excited, but then I got a sense of: Well, can one get a second lifetime award?
Michael Palin
Achievement
First
Sense
Lifetime
Excited
Well
Got
Years
Years Ago
Very
Get
Then
Award
Second
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