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Sometimes 'Hmm' is the wisest thing to say.
Alethea Kontis / Writer
Hmm
Sometimes
Wisest
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Hmm mmm I mean, work is work, I'll take whatever work I can get.
Matthew Mcgrory / Actor
Hmm
Mean
Whatever Works
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A secret talent or hobby... Hmm... I weirdly collect shot glasses.
Austin Mahone / Singer-Songwriter
Glasses
Hmm
Secret
Talent
Shot
Collect
Hobby
Weirdly
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Hmm, on my downtime, I take a shower or listen to the Bible on tape.
Mr. T / Actor
Bible
Downtime
Hmm
Tape
Shower
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Can you stand a little closer?" "Hmm?" "You smell good. I like to smell you.
Nora Roberts / Author
Hmm
Littles
Smell
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Estragon: What about hanging ourselves? Vladimir: Hmm. It'd give us an erection.
Samuel Beckett / Novelist
Giving
Hmm
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If I'm climbing really slow, I kind of feel like, 'Hmm, this is weird.' Like a fish without water.
Adam Ondra /
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People ask me if I would like my children to play tennis, and I'm, like, 'Hmm. Maybe not.' And that's a bit strange.
Tim Henman / Tennis Player
Hmm
Me Children People
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You know something that you'll never hear on one of these cable talking-head shows? One of the guests going, 'Hmm, I don't know.'
Charlie Sykes /
Guests
Hmm
Never Know Something
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I'd rather create something that gives people a very strong reaction than create a show that someone looks at and says, 'Hmm. Fine.'
Dan Levy /
Fine
Hmm
Looks
Gives
Reaction
Says
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There were so many pretty girls coming into the salon as clients, and others working in the salon. And I thought, 'Hmm. This is rather nice.'
Vidal Sassoon / Hairdresser
Girl
Clients
Hmm
Nice
Pretty Girls
Salon
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Dream food day, hmm - maybe a hamburger and fries, but honestly, it's not really a dream because I tend to eat what I want to for the most part.
Stella Maxwell /
Fries
Hmm
Hamburger
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I remember my seventh-grade chemistry teacher told me I'd never amount to anything. I thought, 'Hmm. OK.' That gave me motivation to prove her wrong.
Michael Pena / Actor
Teacher
Amount
Chemistry
Hmm
Prove
Me Remember Anything
Teacher Me Remember
Gave
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I went 59.9 sec. when I was 18 and thought, 'Hmm, that was fast - let's see how much faster we can go and what the rest of the world can do to keep up.'
Adam Peaty /
Faster
Hmm
Sec
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No man wants to settle down. It happens. Eventually you're going to bump into somebody that makes you go, 'Hmm, I don't mind seeing this person every day.'
Kevin Hart / Actor
Men
Bumps
Hmm
Mind
Seeing
Bump
Settle
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It's really odd to be up close to an icon like Bruce Willis. You're used to seeing him on a screen, 50 feet tall. To think, 'Hmm, I'm taller than you are' is just weird.
Luke Grimes / Actor
Feet
Hmm
Odd
Tall
Weird
Bruce
Icon
Screen
Taller
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Hmm, the best thing about being in the NFL? In America it's the No.1 sport; it's exciting, fun, so to me the best thing is the buzz that surrounds football on and off the field.
Reggie Bush / American Football Player
Buzz
Hmm
Nfl
Best Football Me
On And Off
Surrounds
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Feelings are universal, and if an actor's doing his job, I think he's making people sit there, and if it's in a movie or a theatre, going 'Hmm, yeah, I know that... I know that.'
Jeffrey Combs / Actor
Hmm
Theatre
Yeah
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And you know, I hate to admit this, but I don't always think in terms of Shakespeare. When I eat, I do. When I'm at a restaurant, I'll think, 'Hmm, what would Macbeth have ordered?'
Liev Schreiber / Actor
Hate
Hmm
Restaurants
Thinking
Admit
Macbeth
Ordered
Terms
Restaurant
Shakespeare
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The trapeze was my first love. To me, it's normal. It's all I've ever known. But when I see other people's upbringings, I think, 'Hmm... mine was rather unconventional. Quite different!'
Neon Hitch / Singer
First Love
Hmm
Trapeze
Unconventional
Love Me People
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Probably I, like a lot of people, became a writer in imitation of or in homage to the books I enjoyed. When you're so captivated by something, you think, could I do that? Hmm, let me try.
Curtis Sittenfeld / Writer
Captivated
Enjoyed
Hmm
Homage
Imitation
Me People Try
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Writing so that I can act became a way of having not more control over my future but not having to wait for permission. You can choose yourself. Hmm, who should play this part? I nominate me!
Brit Marling / Film Actress
Hmm
Permission
Play
Waiting
Writing
Act
Became
Choose
Wait
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Hmm, limelight... No, I'm not Sienna Miller or Angelina Jolie. I'm very lucky and happy, but I still find it very difficult to get good scripts and good roles. It's really a jungle out there.
Eva Green / Actress
Hmm
Jungle
Limelight
Lucky
Roles
Scripts
Angelina Jolie
Good Scripts
Miller
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In fact, their eyes sort of roll around and they kind of go, 'Hmm'- like there's something there and they don't want to talk about it. But they're not that kind when they are speaking in public.
Dwight Schultz / Film Actor
Hmm
In Fact
Speaking
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I don't go, like, 'Hmm, I'm now going to create something for the black community.' I just feel this compelling urge. I just feel myself drawn to stories that I feel have a potency and immediacy.
George C. Wolfe / Playwright
Black Community
Compelling
Hmm
Immediacy
Potency
Drawn
Urge
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Hmm... at some point when I was making 'Postcards,' it struck me, what the underlying themes for the record would be. It would be about choices, fears and doubts, and it had an existentialist theme to it.
Jens Lekman / Musician
Hmm
Postcards
Theme
Doubts
Fears
Struck
Themes
Underlying
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Now, is Lil B jealous of Kevin Durant on the basketball court? Hmm. Maybe. Maybe not. I love basketball. Do I wish I could play in front of all those people everyday, all day? Of course. I love basketball.
Lil B / Rapper
Jealous
Basketball
Basketball Court
Court
Everyday
Hmm
All Day
Love Day People
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At the end of 'Afterlife' - hmm, how do I do this without spoilers - Skye took a very strange journey that crossed the boundary between life and death. And now, for her, that boundary is permanently blurred.
Claudia Gray / Author
Journey
Afterlife
Hmm
Life And Death
Strange
Blurred
Boundary
Crossed
Permanently
Took
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A lot of women are afraid of loneliness, so when they see a woman who can live alone, then they think, 'Hmm, I can do that.' But you need an example, and that is why I am proud to say I have divorced three husbands.
Nawal El Saadawi / Writer
Divorced
Hmm
Loneliness
Women Are
Husbands
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I just remember Freddie Prinze, Jr. being the nicest guy in the world. To the point where at first I thought, 'Hmm - there's no way anyone could be this nice.' But he really is one of the coolest dudes I've ever met.
Elden Henson /
Hmm
Coolest
Dudes
Nicest
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In school, I really felt like I didn't fit a type. I think everybody had a hard time putting me in a category. They all sort of realized, 'Hmm, you don't really look like a soprano. You're not really a character belter.'
Jessie Mueller /
Character
Hmm
Type
Time Me Look
Time Character Me
Category
Hard Time
Time Character Look
Putting
Realized
Soprano
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I never expected that I would be somebody. I just started playing and when I was 12, 13, thought: 'Wow, I'm playing good.' Then Dinamo Zagreb were speaking about signing me, I thought: 'Hmm, maybe I can achieve something.'
Dejan Lovren /
Hmm
Signing
Good Me Never
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And then the really awful thing is that at the end of the day after crying and experiencing things, then you look at what you've written and you're like, 'Hmm, there's half a page that's good here.' Then you throw out everything else.
Zoe Kazan / Film Actress
Half
Hmm
Looks
The End Of The Day
Good Look Day
Crying
End Of The Day
Everything Else
Experiencing
Page
Throw
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I used to do prank calls as these people and try to convince certain hoteliers that I was someone else. At the time, I used to do people like Tony Blair and William Hague. It was very good fun hearing people kind of thinking, 'Hmm, is that who I think it is?'
Will Tudor /
Blair
Convince
Good Fun
Hmm
Time Good Thinking
Calls
William
Hague
Prank
Tony
Tony Blair
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It's like, hmm, there's people with $2000 weaves that could have bought health care with that weave money. They don't have insurance. People want what they want. And I guess that is a reason we have this big credit card problem and a lot of these foreclosures.
Chris Rock / Comedian
Credit
Credit Card
Health Care
Hmm
Health Money Care
Bought
Card
Insurance
Weave
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As a filmmaker, I've sat on the other side, and I've watched when people I know have a film, and it's doing really well, and people are talking about it in all the trades, and everybody is excited about it, and I've always thought, 'Hmm, what would that be like?'
Lenny Abrahamson / Film Director
Hmm
Watched
People Doing Always
Trades
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The artist doesn't really think about consequences - he or she does the work, stands back and looks at and thinks, 'Hmm, that could have worked better like this.' But as a person who needs to sell tickets to do the next work, one needs to analyze how it does or does not hit its mark.
Twyla Tharp / Dancer
Hmm
Mark
Tickets
Work Better Person
Consequences
Analyze
He Or She
Stands
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When I was younger, I watched Spiderman, and they had the Green Goblin, and before the Green Goblin died, he told Spiderman that it wasn't him, it was the Green Goblin that was killing all those people. I thought, 'Hmm, I should try to change my personality sometimes when it comes to interviews.'
Deandre Ayton /
Hmm
Spiderman
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The song 'Bite the Thong' in particular, with Damon Albarn, really encapsulates the whole dilemma of, 'Hmm, should I stay on the underground when everybody else is selling out?' Nowadays, you can just do it - have your name-brand clothes, do songs with rock n' rollers - and it's not considered selling out.
Mf Doom /
Clothes
Dilemma
Hmm
Just Do It
Particular
Selling
Song
Considered
Bite
Stay
Everybody Else
Rock
Nowadays
Thong
Underground
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I did two matches for WCW, for 'Saturday Night' and for 'WorldWide.' Scott D'Amore was booking the extra talent. I remember I was really torn about it. I was like, 'Hmm... I don't want to do that. I don't want to just be an extra guy. I want so much more than that,' but I was flat broke, and it was 500 bucks.
Edge / Actor
Broke
Bucks
Guy
Hmm
Night
Remember
Saturday
Saturday Night
Talent
Torn
Two
Did
Booking
Extra
Flat
Just Be
Matches
Scott
Worldwide
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As an actress, vanity is your enemy. If you're thinking about how you look, you're not going to give a good performance. Once I realized, 'Hmm, I guess I'm not that vain,' it's like something I wanted to protect. I can't imagine anyone could give the full dynamic performance they're capable of and still be vain.
Gaby Hoffmann / Film Actress
Capable
Hmm
Vain
Good Thinking Look
Dynamic
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It really gets on my goat that people keep quoting Dorothea Mackellar's 'My Country' as proof that there is no such thing as climate change. A poem written more than 100 years ago by a homesick 19 year old versus an ever-increasing body of refereed scientific thought... hmm, hard to know which way to jump, really.
Judy Horacek / Cartoonist
Climate Change
Hmm
Homesick
Proof
Quoting
Versus
Goat
Jump
Poem
Scientific
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Hmm, can I be obvious and say there is probably a double standard for male vs. female directors? Sadly, I think that's actually the case. And it probably stems from the fact that there are proportionately so many fewer women directors than men ones that each project is perhaps more closely scrutinized for its content.
Lynn Shelton / Director
Men
Directors
Female
Fewer
Hmm
Obvious
Thinking
Men Women More
Male
Content
Closely
Double
Women Men More
Standard
Sadly
Scrutinized
Stems
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I didn't have a lot of skin care products when I was a kid - my parents were very au naturale - and I think I was about 9 years old when my girlfriend told me she used Biore. I was like, 'Hmm, never heard of it.' So my mom took me to the store, and I picked out five different things and have been literally using it ever since.
Madelaine Petsch /
Different Things
Five
Heard
Hmm
Products
Skin Care
Mom Me Parents
Skin
Literally
Picked
Store
Took
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I don't really do that much office work. I just go to the office, and I'm like Steve Carell in 'The Office.' You know, like, I just go around and like - I don't know what I do in the office. I look at paperwork and act like I'm understanding what's going on there, and I shake my head and put my hand on my chin and like, 'Hmm.'
Roy Choi / Chef
Hmm
Office
Paperwork
Understanding
Act
Chin
Hand
Head
Shake
Steve
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It wasn't until I got out of the Army and I heard Coltrane's record 'Coltrane,' when he was doing 'Inch Worm' and 'Out of This World,' that I thought, 'Oh my God, you can do that?' And then I thought, 'OK, I better go back and listen to Eric Dolphy a bit.' And then I said, 'Hmm, I better pull out these Ornette Coleman records.'
Roscoe Mitchell / Composer
Army
Coltrane
Hmm
God World Better
Coleman
Inch
Oh My God
Pull
Worm
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Hmm... my bedroom's really messy. It's probably the messiest bedroom you could ever think of. Like, you think it's messy, but when you go there, you can't see one bit of floor anywhere. Clothes, makeup... I'm getting sent loads of clothes and stuff, so it's just piling up everywhere. I've to jump over it in order to get into my bed.
Pixie Lott / Singer-Songwriter
Bed
Clothes
Hmm
Makeup
Messy
Order
Over It
Everywhere
Anywhere
Floor
Jump
Loads
Piling
Sent
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