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A lot of the times when I've auditioned for parts in America, the answer is, 'Sorry, we need a bigger name.'
Michael Sheen

Sorry, America, Times

If I had to put a name to it, I would wish that all my books were entertainments. I think the first thing you've got to do is grab the reader by the ear, and make him sit down and listen. Make him laugh, make him feel. We all want to be entertained at a very high level.
John le Carre

Laugh, Him, Down

People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.
Rachel Weisz

Religion, Point, Humans

My real adversary has no name, no face, no party. It will never be elected, yet it governs - the adversary is the world of finance.
Francois Hollande

Finance, Real, Face

Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post.
Bob Woodward

Deep, Washington, Source

I'm not going to name some of my colleagues who are very well-known for their television presentation, but they wouldn't know new information or how to report a story if it came up and bit them.
Bob Woodward

Story, Television, Bit

I am a quick study - I can memorize a script in an hour - but I can't remember a name three seconds. I've even forgotten my wife's name on occasion.
Don Adams

Wife, Remember, Study

Tennis players we're always playing in center courts that feel like arenas. And when we get on the court and the crowd cheers your name or salutes you - it's like you're a gladiator in the arena. And everyone is cheering - and you're fighting, you're screaming, during your strokes - it feels like you're an animal, fighting for your life.
Novak Djokovic

Life, Fighting, Everyone

In almost every interview someone asks what does HIM stand for. I can't even remember our latest lie about that. When Hanson was hot, we said it means Hanson Is Murder. The name doesn't have a particular history. His Infernal Majesty was a totally different band. I think HIM derives from some death metal joke.
Ville Valo

History, Death, Someone

I'm getting ready to write a piece now, and it's been six months thinking about it, changing the instrumentation, changing the name, doing more reading.
John Zorn

Thinking, Write, Getting

I was born to be married. I just feel comfortable there. I love the idea of being partnered for ever. I love my girlfriend, we've been best friends since I was 18. There's not a thing we haven't been through except for marriage... We've had talks about what we would name our kids since we were in our 20s.
Beth Ditto

Love, Marriage, Best

My mother told me Homer Ditto was not my father. Nope. Mom had had a fling with some other guy who was my dad. Some dude who didn't stick around too long who Mom was happy to get rid of. She chose Homer, and Homer chose me, so he lent me his name even though I didn't have his blood.
Beth Ditto

Mom, Dad, Happy

I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
Damien Hirst

Down, Ready, Sit

I've made up so many stores about my name, I can't remember.
Joaquin Phoenix

Remember, Made, Stores

When I go out with the ladies, I don't force them to pronounce my name. I tell them I like to go by the nickname of Kitten.
Joaquin Phoenix

Tell, Force, Ladies

Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!
Walter Savage Landor

Power, Ambition, Rest

All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.
Ugo Betti

Person, Giving, Mad

I was the all-American face. You name it, honey - American Dairy Milk, Metropolitan Life insurance, McDonald's, Burger King. The Face That Didn't Matter - that's what I called my face.
Debra Winger

Life, American, Matter

I've spent a lot of time in tiny venues in the way that I got my record deal and got my name out there just performing live. I was literally performing my songs in all kinds of different ways with different guitarists, and I didn't have an album up online or anything. It's been a lot of work; it definitely hasn't been a sudden explosion into fame.
Florence Welch

Work, Time, Live

I made music with my friend, who we called Isabella Machine to which I was Florence Robot. When I was about an hour away from my first gig, I still didn't have a name, so I thought 'Okay, I'll be Florence Robot/Isa Machine', before realising that name was so long it'd drive me mad.
Florence Welch

Music, Long, Friend

I got to live out my 11-year-old fantasies - I got to go on stage with Green Day. Billie Joe called my name from the stage. 'Dookie' was the first album I ever bought. I covered the whole of 'Nimrod' and he'd heard it. That was like the 11-year-old girl dreamed.
Florence Welch

Girl, Live, Whole

I was having a conversation with my father and he was talking about this thing - strangeness and charm. It's actually the name of the two smallest particles that there are when you split the atom, so I wrote a song around it. I even managed to fit the word 'hydrogen' in there. Isn't that a nice thing for scientists to call them though?
Florence Welch

Nice, Father, Two

You ask yourself, 'What do you want your legacy to be?' I'm content at this point to say, 'Those who follow me.' Romeo Crennel, Bill Belichick, Sean Payton, to name a few. I think I've got a pretty good group, so far.
Bill Parcells

Good, Yourself, Pretty

I think it is quite untrue that it is standard journalistic practice to name the interviewer when quoting from an interview.
Fareed Zakaria

Quite, Practice, Interview

The Marines was a fresh start - that is why they shave your head. I wish they would let you change your name.
Drew Carey

Change, Why, Wish

I think every player listens out for his name being sung and it's something I really enjoy.
Steven Gerrard

Enjoy, Player, Listens

I'm retiring the Mos Def name after 2011. I'm actually doing it.
Mos Def

After, Actually, Retiring

Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years it's a name that the streets taught me a figure of speech that was given to me by the culture and by my environment and I feel I've done quite a bit with that name and it's time to expand and move on.
Mos Def

Time, Done, Culture

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.
Dylan Thomas

Great, Hand, Dominion

If American literature has a few heroes, Miller is one of them. He refused to name names at the McCarthy hearings, and his play 'The Crucible' analysed the hearings in the context of a previous American mass psychosis, the Salem witch trials.
Jane Smiley

Play, Trials, American

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