Middle Quotes - Page 28

When I was in the middle of the 'Scott Pilgrim' series, and it was slowly becoming more popular, though still not financially solvent, I had this real bratty instinct to turn around and do something super arty and dark. I felt dismissed by comics culture, stuck in between the artcomix world and the nerdcomix world, and I was cranky about it.
Bryan Lee O'malley / Cartoonist
Becoming
Dark
Instinct
Middle
Pilgrim
Series
Stuck
Arty
Comics
Dismissed
Financially
Slowly
Popular
Scott
Solvent
Super
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As young West Point cadets, our motto was 'duty, honor, country.' But it was in the field, from the rice paddies of Southeast Asia to the sands of the Middle East, that I learned that motto's fullest meaning. There I saw gallant young Americans of every race, creed and background fight, and sometimes die, for 'duty, honor, and their country.'
Norman Schwarzkopf /
Asia
Country
East
East Asia
Gallant
Honor
Middle
Middle East
Motto
Race
Rice
Southeast Asia
West
West Point
Young
Die
American
Background
Creed
Fight
Field
Fullest
Saw
Learned
Meaning
Point
Sands
Southeast
Young Americans
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We had established Harley Quinn as an accomplice to the Joker who was also crushing on him and found herself in the middle of this weird relationship being at the beck and call of his every whim. We wanted to stretch her and make her a stronger character, so to have her leave him and go off on her own was a story I wanted to tell for a while.
Paul Dini / Writer
Relationship
Character
Harley
Middle
Stronger
Wanted
Whim
Weird
Accomplice
Established
Beck
Call
Crushing
Joker
Leave
Off
Her
Herself
Story
Stretch
Tell
While
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The first series of 'McMafia' is very Alex Godman-centric and could continue to be, but we haven't even begun to explore the Middle East or Africa or even South America in detail. One of our ambitions would be to drop into some of these other places and, by doing so, bring the audience into a world that they wouldn't necessarily have been in.
James Watkins /
Alex
Ambition
Audience
East
Middle
Middle East
Series
South
South America
Africa
Begun
Continue
Detail
Drop
Explore
Necessarily
Places
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Britain, along with the U.S.A., is war weary, and after the travesty of Iraq and Afghanistan, has grave misgivings in any future involvement in the Middle East. The ghost of Tony Blair and his single-minded determination to attack Iraq, at any cost, has cast a long shadow over British politics. The British public have a long collective memory.
Paul Conroy /
Afghanistan
Blair
Britain
Cost
Determination
East
Ghost
Involvement
Middle
Middle East
Shadow
Weary
Attack
Cast
Collective
Grave
Memory
Single-Minded
Tony
Tony Blair
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The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.
Dan Wheldon / Racing Driver
Able
Championship
Entertainment
Honestly
Middle
Pure
Race
Two
Fast
Grid
Onto
Pack
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I could have been in a house show the day before being flown in to do the Survivor Series. I'd do that pay-per-view, then fly out the next day to go do another house show. The pay-per-view just happened in the middle of a 30 or 40-day road tour. For us back then, the WWF talent, it was just another day of work, another day of being on the road.
The Ultimate Warrior / Professional Wrestler
Another Day
Happened
Middle
Series
Survivor
Talent
Wwf
Flown
Fly
Road
Tour
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My family was lower middle class, and my parents both worked, so we couldn't take proper vacations. We'd go for three days to Santa Barbara or to the desert, so my first real vacation came was when I was 12, when friends of my parents were taking their kids away. We went to Grand Canyon, Bryce Canyon, and Zion National Park in Arizona and Utah.
Harry Shearer / Actor
Arizona
Barbara
Class
Desert
Grand Canyon
Middle
Middle Class
Santa
Utah
Canyon
Grand
Lower
National
National Park
Park
Proper
Vacations
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I do think that if you've got a compelling argument to make in this country, going on television, going online, being on social media, you've got a broader ability to be effective at communicating your message if you engage a wide span of platforms rather than just standing on the House floor in the middle of the night, speaking to an empty room.
Matt Gaetz /
Ability
Compelling
Empty
Media
Middle
Night
Online
Platforms
Social Media
Standing
Television
Wide
Broader
Effective
Engage
Floor
Room
Span
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Unemployment insurance, abolishing child labor, the 40-hour work week, collective bargaining, strong banking regulations, deposit insurance, and job programs that put millions of people to work were all described, in one way or another, as 'socialist.' Yet, these programs have become the fabric of our nation and the foundation of the middle class.
Bernie Sanders / United States Senator
Work
Banking
Bargaining
Child Labor
Class
Collective Bargaining
Fabric
Foundation
Labor
Middle
Middle Class
Millions
Socialist
Strong
Unemployment
Week
Work People Way
Job
People Foundation Way
Child
Another
Become
Were
Collective
Nation
Deposit
Insurance
Programs
Put
Millions Of People
Regulations
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Muhammad Ali struck us in the middle of America's darkest night, in the heart of its most threatening gathering storm. His power toppled the mightiest of foes, and his intense light shined on America, and we were able to see clearly injustice, inequality, poverty, pride, self realization, courage, laughter, love, joy and religious freedom for all.
Billy Crystal / Actor
Courage
Freedom
Able
America
Gathering
Heart
Inequality
Injustice
Intense
Joy
Laughter
Light
Middle
Muhammad
Night
Poverty
Pride
Realization
Religious
Religious Freedom
Storm
Threatening
Most
Ali
Clearly
Darkest
Foes
His
Mightiest
See
Struck
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Everyone loved my father. He was so nice that people took advantage of him. We were lower middle class. I slept in the hallway on a cot that rolled away during the day, and my younger brother and sister slept in my parents' room. My goal as a kid was to someday have my own room and to own a car - and I wanted to be able to take care of my parents.
Jerry Reinsdorf / Lawyer
Sister
Advantage
Brother
Class
Middle
Middle Class
Someday
Take Care
Younger Brother
Younger
Brother And Sister
Hallway
Lower
Room
Slept
Took
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Sure, if you're a well to do family, you always have the option of sending your children to private schools where teachers spend less time disciplining kids and more time teaching them. However, this option is beyond the reach of most households. And this is what makes school vouchers such a promising solution for lower and middle income families.
Fabrizio Moreira /
Income
Middle
Vouchers
Time Family Always
Teachers
Beyond
Option
Families
Spend
Households
Less Time
Lower
Private
Private Schools
Promising
Reach
Solution
Schools
Sending
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I bring up 'The Heist,' and you can almost cut that record down the middle between songs where the beat came first and the words came second, and songs where the words came first and the beat came second. It can start with a vibe, a beat that drives a story, or it can start with a story and then trying to identify the tone to tell that story right.
Ryan Lewis / Musician
Middle
Tone
Beat
Bring
Cut
Drives
Identify
Record
Second
Vibe
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