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I rode on a plane a couple years ago with Snow Patrol and didn't know who the hell they were. They said they were big fans of mine and were playing Madison Square Garden. And they let me listen to one of their records on their iPod. I started to weep.
Neil Sedaka
Me
Garden
Fans
Big
Hell
Mine
Madison
Records
Weep
Know
Couple
Couple Years
Said
Were
iPod
Years
Years Ago
Rode
Square
Snow
Listen
Patrol
Plane
Who
Started
Playing
I've begun to look at the world through apocalypse eyes. Our society, which seems so sturdily built out of concrete and custom, is just a temporary resting place, a hotel our civilization checked into a couple hundred years ago and must one day check out of.
Neil Strauss
Day
Eyes
World
Resting
Society
Our
Hundred
Hundred Years
One Day
Out
Must
Resting Place
Temporary
Seems
Civilization
Through
Hotel
Check
Checked
Look
Couple
Built
Concrete
Years
Years Ago
Begun
Just
Place
Which
Custom
Apocalypse
I have a sense of being at peace. I understand when you give the sign of peace, and when the priest says, 'Peace be with you,' in a way I never did 10 or 15 years ago. I have a deep personal sense of what that means.
Newt Gingrich
You
Peace
Sense
Way
Says
Sign
Give
Never
Priest
Understand
Years
Years Ago
Did
Personal
Being
Means
Deep
I tend to look out for things with a resonance to my youth - artists or objects that seemed romantic all those years ago. I never buy anything purely for its value. I like possessions that smile back at me.
Nicholas Haslam
Smile
Buy
Me
Youth
Value
Resonance
Back
Those
Possessions
Out
Purely
Seemed
Objects
Tend
Never
Like
Look
Years
Years Ago
Artists
Romantic
Anything
Things
Aristotle wrote the 'Poetics' 2,400 years ago. It's really an instruction manual for aspiring filmmakers. It's as valid today as it was then.
Nicholas Jarecki
Today
Valid
Aristotle
Instruction
Wrote
Years
Years Ago
Then
Really
Manual
Aspiring
Filmmakers
Years ago I had a house in Sussex, it was like Arcadia, with an old Victorian bridge, a pond and the Downs.
Nicolas Roeg
Old
Had
Like
House
Years
Years Ago
Pond
Victorian
Bridge
Downs
I started buying films a couple of years ago. The first film-maker I began to obsessively collect was Andy Milligan. He was a New York frustrated artist.
Nicolas Winding Refn
First
Films
Collect
Andy
He
New
Couple
Couple Of Years Ago
Years
Years Ago
Began
York
Artist
New York
Frustrated
Started
Buying
In publishing 'JFK: Reckless Youth' almost twenty years ago, I had gotten into trouble myself with the Kennedys. Not because of my portrait of JFK - which was highly laudatory - but because I had described his parents, Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, in less-than-flattering terms.
Nigel Hamilton
Myself
Youth
Parents
Trouble
Rose
Reckless
Had
Joseph
Almost
Highly
Terms
Because
Gotten
His
Years
Years Ago
Fitzgerald
Which
Twenty
Publishing
Portrait
Kennedy
Kennedys
I remember thinking years ago about getting a half special, 'When you get that, that will be it. That will be all you need to feel validated in this world.' I feel like that special was just another set.
Nikki Glaser
You
World
Remember
Will
Half
Thinking
Validated
About
Feel
Like
Another
Years
Years Ago
Get
Getting
Just
Special
Need
Set
Years ago I was a runway model, and I used to get laughs. I thought it was a joke anyway.
Nora Dunn
Thought
Joke
Laughs
Runway
Years
Years Ago
Model
Get
Anyway
Used
I sort of try to write everything for me. I'm a huge sports fan but have no interest in minutiae. I don't remember who won Super Bowls five years ago or listen to sports talk radio. I'm trying to make sure the jokes are self-contained so they're accessible to everyone.
Norm MacDonald
Me
Jokes
Sports
Remember
Try
Everyone
Everything
Super
Super Bowls
Minutiae
No Interest
Write
Self-Contained
Talk
Talk Radio
Make
Sports Fan
Bowls
Sort
Sure
Accessible
Years
Years Ago
Huge
Won
Five
Trying
Listen
Fan
Interest
Who
Radio
I first heard of General Anders and his army more than 50 years ago. I admired him then, and I admire him still; and I feel a special bond with the men, women and children whom he rescued from hunger, disease, and official abuse. Theirs is a story of endurance and fortitude that gives one faith in the human spirit.
Norman Davies
Faith
Army
Women
Men
First
Hunger
Admire
Admired
Spirit
General
More
Gives
He
Feel
Abuse
Him
Still
His
Years
Years Ago
Heard
Women And Children
Than
Disease
Official
Human
Children
Endurance
Story
Then
Fortitude
Rescued
Special
Human Spirit
Whom
Bond
Years ago, there was a variety theatre in every British town, and people paid to go down and see it. Comedy was the main part of the theatre, and comedians earned a living by being funny. Now you have comedy in television instead. Comedians now have to be funny within a play.
Norman Wisdom
Funny
You
Theatre
People
Comedy
Down
Living
Every
Earned
Television
See
Variety
Main
Part
Instead
Town
Comedians
Within
Go
Years
Years Ago
Being
Being Funny
Paid
Now
Play
British
Several years ago, when I was about to start a novel, I thought I might get some mileage out of the idea of a civilization in which people somehow felt - that is, they shared - all the pain and all the pleasure they caused one another.
Octavia E. Butler
People
Thought
Pain
Several
Pleasure
Out
Some
About
Somehow
Civilization
Shared
Idea
Another
Felt
Caused
Years
Years Ago
Get
Which
Might
Mileage
Novel
Start
I feel great. I feel younger. And I don't feel anything at all. I don't know who knows, but right now I'm, how, how many years have I, fifty five, something like that. Forty three years old. And I feel like seventeen, like twenty five years ago.
Olga Korbut
Great
Old
Three
Seventeen
Something
Feel
Like
Know
Knows
How
Years
Years Ago
Five
Anything
Younger
Fifty
Forty
Who
Many
Twenty
Twenty-Five
Now
Right
I have the idea that anyone who has ever heard my name has the distinct impression that I was put under the sod years ago just before they buried Lillian Russell.
Olivia De Havilland
Before
Distinct
Russell
Put
Idea
Name
Years
Years Ago
Heard
Impression
Just
Buried
Anyone
Who
Ever
Sod
'Red Knot' is a film that I shot in Antarctica almost three years ago on a boat. It was a film that was improvised and it had very interesting circumstances while making the film, obviously. We were on a small boat bobbing around in Antarctica. It was a really remarkable experience.
Olivia Thirlby
Experience
Three
Circumstances
Small
Remarkable
Had
Almost
Red
Knot
Obviously
Around
Making
Antarctica
Were
Years
Years Ago
Very
Improvised
While
Interesting
Boat
Shot
Really
Film
I've only really had one period when I lost myself and felt like I was going to lose my career, and that was when I first began presenting 'X-Factor' spin-off 'The Xtra Factor' two years ago. I was worried if I did a rubbish job live on Saturday night TV that my music career was going to get affected and I would lose everything.
Olly Murs
Music
Myself
Job
First
Lose
Lost
Live
Rubbish
Music Career
Worried
Everything
TV
Would
Only
Factor
Had
Like
Period
Felt
Affected
Years
Years Ago
Began
Get
Did
Going
Really
Saturday
Saturday Night
Career
Night
Two
Presenting
Someone I met years ago explained to me the difference between a personality and an actor, a personality being Eddie Murphy or Roseanne Barr, and an actor being Morgan Freeman and Alfre Woodard or Marlon Brando.
Orlando Jones
Me
Personality
Met
Marlon Brando
Someone
Morgan
Morgan Freeman
Between
Freeman
Eddie
Eddie Murphy
Years
Years Ago
Brando
Difference
Being
Explained
Actor
Murphy
It makes me forget that I'm not going to be a major star and lead female in films whether it was 20 years ago, 10 years ago, five or in the future.
Pam Grier
Future
Me
Films
Lead
Major
Female
Makes
Years
Years Ago
Five
Forget
Going
Whether
Star
When I moved to Europe 12 years ago, my biggest concern was whether I'd ever speak decent French. Practically every American I knew came to visit, many saying they dreamed of living here, too.
Pamela Druckerman
Saying
Speak
Living
Every
Too
Visit
Dreamed
Knew
French
Concern
Practically
Came
Years
Years Ago
American
Decent
Moved
Biggest
Whether
Europe
Many
Ever
Every American
Here
So much of the physical world has been explored. But the deluge of data I get to investigate really lets me chart new territory. Genetic data from people living today forms an archaeological record of what happened to their ancestors 10,000 years ago.
Pardis Sabeti
Today
Me
People
World
Living
Ancestors
Has-Been
Archaeological
Physical
Record
Data
Chart
Physical World
Investigate
Deluge
Genetic
New
Territory
Been
Years
Years Ago
Get
New Territory
Happened
Forms
Much
Really
Explored
Lets
In theory, I stick to how I could eat if I lived a thousand years ago. I take processed foods off the menu, and stick to things I could hunt or gather, with more fruits, vegetables, and nuts - and less meat.
Parker Young
Vegetables
Nuts
Hunt
Thousand
Thousand Years
Eat
More
Foods
Could
Menu
Take
Stick
How
Years
Years Ago
Off
Fruits
Processed
Less
Theory
Meat
Lived
Things
Gather
Square is turning informal, cash transactions, like you would do with a taco truck, into card swipes. Stripe is more for the Internet, it's focused on the kinds of transactions that weren't possible years ago. We think about how you would buy things from a mobile phone, crowd-funding, how should that work.
Patrick Collison
Work
Buy
You
Phone
Internet
Think
Stripe
Focused
Possible
Would
Kinds
About
Cash
Taco
More
Truck
Like
How
Were
Years
Years Ago
Mobile
Square
Transactions
Informal
Turning
Should
Card
Things
I saw this thing years ago, where somebody filled a gymnasium with ping-pong balls and mousetraps. And then somebody threw just one more ping-pong ball in there, and literally, in five seconds, the room was popping. And then it was dead. And that's how it was with 'Dallas.' Just... 'boom!'
Patrick Duffy
Somebody
Seconds
Saw
Boom
Threw
More
Gymnasium
Dead
Ball
How
Years
Years Ago
Balls
Five
Just
Where
Literally
Just One
Room
Then
Popping
Filled
Thing
Dallas
The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it.
Patrick Macnee
You
People
Remember
Job
Websites
Thirty
Danger
About
Something
Only
Know
Said
Years
Years Ago
Up
Get
Did
Going
Against
Forty
Forty Years
Who
Bring
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