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I work in an old tradition that goes back to the ancient Greeks. You hold a mirror to crime to see what's happening in society. I could never write a crime story just for the sake of it, because I always want to talk about certain things in society.
Henning Mankell

Work, Society, Old

I'm a little bit allergic to the whole brand thing to be honest but maybe it's just happening around me and I'm not really aware of it.
Sophie Ellis Bextor

Around, Honest, Whole

You know, I'm not really any good at working out when people are flirting with me. And I think I'm too flirtatious with people I'm trying not to flirt with! What I am good at is making people feel uncomfortable. I don't want to but it always ends up happening!
Josh Hartnett

Good, Flirt, Trying

I really struggle with that feeling of helplessness. That's why I really try to get my blogs, and even myself, to point to the positive and look at all the inspiring things that are happening.
Daryl Hannah

Positive, Struggle, Feeling

I was a brat. It was crazy, I was very picky. In other words, I didn't take advantage of what was happening.
Sherilyn Fenn

Crazy, Words, Advantage

There is something at work that's bigger than us. It's about having a trust in life and being at peace that things are happening the way they should. You do what you do as well as you can do it, and then you don't worry or agonize about the outcome.
Sherilyn Fenn

Life, Work, Peace

I read a whole bunch of bits and pieces over the years, obviously from the fan magazines and the rest of the stuff, and I just wanted to give a little more insight into what's happening in my personal life.
Davy Jones

Life, Give, Wanted

I was kind of surprised to learn how controlling I am. I never thought of myself in that way. I think the root of the control issues is usually fear, because you want to know what's going to be happening at any given moment.
Michelle Pfeiffer

Fear, Control, Thought

Look at what's happening in this world. Every day there's something exciting or disturbing to write about. With all that's going on, how could I stop?
Gwendolyn Brooks

Write, Stop, Exciting

We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.
Tom Wolfe

Past, Acting, Movie

Writing helps me process things that are happening to me.
Juliana Hatfield

Writing, Process, Helps

This is why I personally care about diversity: it's the canary in the coal mine for meritocracy. When we see extremely skewed demographics, we have very good reason to suspect that something is wrong with our selection process, that it's not actually as meritocratic as it could be. And I believe that is exactly what is happening in Silicon Valley.
Eric Ries

Good, Care, Why

When my senior prom was happening, I was in Malta filming 'Troy.'
Garrett Hedlund

Prom, Senior, Filming

There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of the fear of violence. No leader can claim: 'this is not happening in my backyard.'
Michelle Bachelet

Women, Fear, Live

We have a very wide range of content, but the brand-newest movies, what's happening with those is a $30 pay-per-view option - not from Netflix but from DirecTV and others - of movies that are in the theater.
Reed Hastings

Movies, Others, Content

The Costa Rican government is prioritizing laying fiber optic over paving roads. Costa Rica is trying to become one of the Internet societies. This is happening throughout the world.
Reed Hastings

Government, Trying, Become

There is a revolution happening, and within two years I think that Wi-Fi and Netflix will be built into all the televisions.
Reed Hastings

Revolution, Two, Within

For seven years, I made films in the cinema verite tradition - photographing what was happening without manipulating it. Then I realised I wanted to make things happen for myself, through feature films.
Mira Nair

Happen, Through, Made

I came from the school of cinema verite documentaries, which was: Do not manipulate reality as it was happening but create a narrative in the editing room.
Mira Nair

School, Reality, Create

Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now.
James Broughton

Future, Past, Everything

There was a certain point in my life where I had to decide that I was going to take my future and Nicole's and not wallow in what happened to me because when you do that, you just keep repeating what's been happening and at some point you have to make a choice.
Boris Kodjoe

Life, Future, Keep

I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing.
Gavrilo Princip

Revenge, Nothing, Regret

When I was a kid, if you didn't speak Irish, you really wanted to. And you played Gaelic games and you didn't pay any attention to what was happening in the outside world, because really, Ireland was the center of the universe. And I don't think that's the case anymore. Although, admittedly, it is the center of the universe.
Roddy Doyle

Wanted, Speak, Universe

As someone who grew up in a house where there wasn't a lot of talking, I'm used to just looking at the world. And in general I often feel like I just don't understand what's happening. That everybody else does, but I don't quite get it.
Mike Mills

Someone, Understand, Else

When I listen to music - I don't particularly do it for fun all that much. It's not a big part of my life, and I'm not really on top of what's happening in the world of music in the way I was when I was a teenager.
John Hodgman

Life, Music, Fun

When Blur first started and we were playing Manchester the Hacienda was the place to go. That was where a lot of exciting stuff was happening and London was pretty dead.
Graham Coxon

Pretty, Place, Dead

I think what happens when you are prime minister is no day is the same and every day you are under pressure. And there is always so much happening that the days just flash by and flash into weeks.
John Key

Same, Days, Happens

The worst part about pregnancy would definitely have to be my nausea. I don't know why it's just called morning sickness because morning sickness never just happened in the morning for me and it's not happening just in the morning for my sister.
Tia Mowry

Morning, Why, Sister

You know, as you get older, the first thing you lose is memory. It seems to be happening with me.
Bernhard Langer

Lose, Older, Memory

I started flying because I had a fear of it early on. I figured if I learned to fly, I would understand better what was happening and started taking lessons in the late 1950's, once I had made some money on tour.
Arnold Palmer

Money, Fear, Made

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