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I'm a very heady person; I'm in my head a lot.
Emma Watson / Actress
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The sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions.
Audre Lorde / Writer
Belief
Instantaneous
Literature
Solutions
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Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame.
Peter Carey / Novelist
Famous
Being Famous
Fame
Village
Writer
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I was so flattered to be asked to be in the movies - the idea of being paid to act was heady stuff.
Piper Laurie / Film Actress
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Asked
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I did comedy and parody television in the '70s. I was a liberal Democrat, and it was a very heady year.
Chevy Chase / Comedian
Comedy
Democrat
Parody
Television
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The attraction of power is heady, addictive. And as we know from real life, it can be a disease. A horrific disease.
Liam Cunningham /
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Disease
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Real Life
Addictive
Life Power Know
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Any entertainer who tells you that the adoration of fans is not a heady experience probably never had the experience.
Charley Pride / Singer
Adoration
Entertainers
Fans
Entertainer
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Shakespeare and Co dedicates itself to a shared, heady and outdated ideal that is scarce in our protective and fearful age.
Rory Maclean /
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As I have seen with a lot of companies I have covered, acquisition interest can be a heady experience, and not always in a good way.
Kara Swisher / Columnist
Acquisition
Covered
Good Way
Interest
Way
Good Experience Always
Experience Good Way
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You know, when you get the White House operator and they say, 'Just a moment for the president of the United States,' that's a pretty heady moment.
Lori Lightfoot /
White House
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I studied psychology, history, and religion. I was a heady girl, but frankly, I'm glad I studied those subjects because a lot of that has really helped me as an actress.
Adrienne C. Moore /
Glad
Psychology
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Frankly
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In the heady days that followed the success of 'Mahabharat,' I was young, vain and didn't care much about the story. But in the next two decades, I read a lot on the epic.
Puneet Issar /
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Epic
Vain
Followed
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Attention isn't really earned. It's invoked; it's manipulated. It can be heady and make you feel powerful, but it isn't something you accomplish; you get it - or you don't.
Justine Musk / Author
Accomplish
Earned
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It's hard for people to get their hands around fame, because it's heady stuff, and you have to look at it as being dangerous explosives, and you have to handle it with care.
George Hamilton / Film Actor
Explosives
Fame
Handle
Hands
Looks
People
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There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette / Novelist
Bitter
Poison
Solitude
Wall
Wine
Against
Beat
Days
Still
Head
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Makes
Tonic
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To intoxicate the masses until they were heady with the wine of inspiration was all I lived for. To me, this was elixir... I wax lyrical. I literally am overcome, and this is transmitted to my listeners.
Sukarno / Former President Of Indonesia
Inspiration
Listeners
Lyrical
Wine
Overcome
Heady
Masses
Transmitted
Wax
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America, to me, is this enormous contrast between the heady idealism of founding fathers such as Thomas Jefferson, who said, 'All men are created equal,' and the reality that he was himself a slave owner.
Michael Portillo / Journalist
Contrast
Enormous
Founding
Idealism
Slave
Fathers
Founding Fathers
Owner
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Thomas
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Cooking is the best way to unwind at the end of a long writing day. There's something mindless and hands-on about cooking, which makes it feel like the very opposite of writing, which is heady but inactive.
Lauren Kate / Author
Best Way
Cooking
Hands
Mindless
Opposites
Unwind
Writing
Opposite
Best Long Day
Hands-On
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Reading is a heady thing. You can be into the action of someone's thoughts and take a whole trip down someone's ruminations while seconds tick by in the world that they're in, but you can't really do that in film.
Alan Tudyk / Actor
Seconds
Tick
Heady
Trip
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Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more.
Maya Angelou / Author
4th Of July
Independence
Brain
Draught
Drink
Taste
Wine
Young
Addictive
Appealing
Effect
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Tuscany is so full of history and beauty - you meet wonders of art and architecture on almost every corner. But I love the region's homier aspects: the special sweetness of the tomatoes, the soft mozzarella, the heady scents of basil and garlic everywhere.
Trudie Styler /
Architecture
Garlic
Special
Sweetness
Tomatoes
Beauty Love Art
Everywhere
Aspects
Full
Corner
Heady
Meet
Wonders
Region
Soft
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I think you must be running away from something pretty enormous if you don't want to see a person more than once or twice. I think relationships don't get interesting for quite a while. When the initial heady rush fades, that's when it gets really exciting.
Greg Wise /
Enormous
Fades
Running Away
Twice
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I should say I am not much of a gamer - anymore. The reason for this is that I have to make a living, and my body requires vitamin D, and I've come to value the heady pleasures of human interaction over the temporary exhilaration of reaching the 'next level.'
Lynn Coady / Novelist
Exhilaration
Gamer
Interaction
Next Level
Reaching
Temporary
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Requires
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You can't have whatever you want. But to a child who must ask permission for every single thing, adulthood looks like a constant parade of every desire's satisfaction. It is a heady and terrifying place. It is the Otherworld. It is Fairyland. In fantasy, we make this literal.
Catherynne M. Valente / Novelist
Adulthood
Constant
Fantasy
Literal
Permission
Satisfaction
Every Single Thing
Heady
Parade
Terrifying
Single Thing
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Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
Vikas Swarup / Novelist
Core
Cricket
Drama
Entertainment
Hectic
Intensity
Attention Spans
Cocktail
Era
Falling
Heady
Lifestyles
Match
Spans
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In Britain, politicians who openly discuss their spirituality are about as welcome as Jehovah' s Witnesses on the doorstep, and the British associate the mixture of politics and religion as a heady cocktail best reserved for the mass irrationality of Northern Ireland, Iran, Kashmir, and the Middle East.
Gavin Esler / Television Presenter
Britain
Doorstep
East
Iran
Ireland
Jehovah
Mass
Middle
Middle East
Northern Ireland
Reserved
Spirituality
Welcome
Associate
Cocktail
Discuss
Politicians
Heady
Mixture
Northern
Openly
Witnesses
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Every congresswoman surely endures the same strains that drive some of her male colleagues to have affairs: lots of travel, families far away, heady work that makes a domestic routine seem distant and boring. But the stakes are much higher for women, because they are still judged by a different standard.
Hanna Rosin / Author
Colleagues
Different
Far Away
Judged
Males
Routine
Stakes
Affairs
Male
Distant
Domestic
Endures
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Surely
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It is important to distinguish between the power of the internet to make the great change it can, and the limits and vulnerabilities of that change without real-time political mobilization deployed globally to protect those who venture out, especially in closed societies, into the heady new vistas it offers.
Naomi Wolf / Author
Great Change
Important
Mobilization
Offers
Political
Real
Venture
Change Power Great
Closed
Deployed
Heady
Societies
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Since the heady days of the 2009 Inauguration, middle-class independents have grown increasingly distant from Obama. Working-class voters - always more enamored of Clinton - have grown even more wary and distrustful of the Chicagoan. Both voting blocs pose the danger of serious defection in 2012. Without their support, Obama cannot win.
Douglas Wilder / American Politician
Clinton
Danger
Enamored
Inauguration
Voters
Working Class
Distant
Grown
Heady
Independents
Pose
Wary
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