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One of the first things I created was music for the Paris opera's ballet troupe. That was the first time that electronic music was played at the opera. I really like the relationship between the music and the choreography.
Jean Michel Jarre
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Composer
Ballet
Choreography
Electronic Music
First Time
Opera
Troupe
Played
Electronic
First Things
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Both social engineering and technical attacks played a big part in what I was able to do. It was a hybrid. I used social engineering when it was appropriate, and exploited technical vulnerabilities when it was appropriate.
Kevin Mitnick
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Consultant
Able
Appropriate
Engineering
Hybrid
Social
Social Engineering
Attacks
Played
Big Part
Exploited
Vulnerabilities
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Tim Duncan was a marvelous player. He played the game from the four, the five position. He was one of the unique players, like a Michael Jordan, who could get to spaces on the floor you that you couldn't do anything about.
B. J. Armstrong
/
Basketball Player
Jordan
Marvelous
Position
Unique
Played
Michael
Floor
Michael Jordan
Spaces
Tim
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I love insane, stupid comedy, but I can only make it work if it's a character I can give some history to and make real. Like the guy I played in 'Little Miss Sunshine.' He's a maniac, but to me he was absolutely believable.
Alan Arkin
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Actor
Believable
Character
Comedy
Guy
Insane
Stupid
Sunshine
Absolutely
Love Work History
Played
Miss
Maniac
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I played for Sampdoria and stayed there 15 years. Of course, I could have gone to Juventus, to AC Milan, to Inter Milan many times, but I preferred to remain because Sampdoria were my family, from the owners to the players.
Roberto Mancini
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Football Manager
Milan
Owners
Played
Preferred
Remain
Stayed
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Early on, I played a Chinese delivery person, and even that, which was very innocuous, felt like I was somehow betraying myself. I felt very self-conscious on set doing that role, with a crew that was almost entirely white.
John Cho
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Actor
Chinese
Crew
Delivery
Felt
Self Conscious
White
Almost
Played
Betraying
Set
Early
Entirely
Role
Somehow
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I've been very lucky with the roles that I've played in that they were wonderful roles for women. They're incredible, flawed characters that I really gravitate toward. I just never want anybody to be able to put me in a box.
Anya Taylor-Joy
/
Flawed
Lucky
Wonderful
Anybody
Women Me Never
Box
Played
Gravitate
Toward
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There's been a lot of wedding songs and proposals. It's cool because when they play it at weddings so, it means a lot to them. That's a big deal. They're always going to remember 'Head Over Boots' as played at their wedding.
Jon Pardi
/
Wedding
Cool
Big Deal
Boots
Remember
Played
Deal
Head
Proposals
Weddings
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I played volleyball for Brown University and loved playing there. I played all four years and was captain my senior year. Second team all-Ivy, academic all-Ivy. I really loved it. When I was graduated, I figured that was it.
Lauren Gibbs
/
Volleyball
Academic
Brown
Senior
Senior Year
Team
University
Played
Loved
Captain
Figured
Graduated
Loved Playing
Second
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I understand the rock star deal having been one and still going out strapping my guitar on and performing. Now, I probably do 30 or 40 dates a year and I get to relive how I felt at 19 when I played in some really bad bands.
David Cassidy
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Actor
Guitar
Performing
Rock Star
Stars
Years
Understand
Played
Bad
Star
Deal
Dates
Having
Rock
Relive
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I played around with GarageBand before, but I'd never actually made a proper song. So it was getting into the studio with him where I made my first proper song. I've always loved creative writing, so I had done that as well.
Benee
/
Creative
Creative Writing
Song
Played
Loved
Always Done Never
Proper
Studio
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I was 12 when it really hit me. I did children's theatre camp during the summers and played a fairy in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' The next summer, I played Clytemnestra in 'Agamemnon' and I was like, 'OK, this is amazing.'
Rachel Mcadams
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Actress
Fairy
Summer
Theatre
Played
Hit
Camp
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At my pregnant wife's behest, I took the job for the paycheck and the health insurance, and it turned into 'Sharknado.' I couldn't have played this better if I'd wanted to. It's really captured the imagination of sci-fi fans.
Ian Ziering
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Actor
Health
Captured
Fans
Pregnant
Sci Fi
Played
Health Insurance
Insurance
Paycheck
Took
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They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.
Oscar Robertson
/
Basketball Player
Sports
Basketball
College
High School
Long Time
School
Time Game Long
Played
Somewhere
Time Long Game
Sport
Junior
Junior College
Rule
Sportswriter
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I played soccer when I was a kid. I started when I was 8 and played for 8 more years. I was pretty good. I used to train with Atletico Nacional, which is one of the most important teams in Colombia. I used to train every day.
Maluma
/
Colombia
Soccer
Pretty
Atletico
Good Day Every Day
Played
Every Day
Pretty Good
Teams
The Most Important
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Not that there weren't great shows, and not that there wasn't plenty of fine music played. It's just that the consistency and the height of where we could take it, with the help of the audience, was less, I felt, in the '90s.
Phil Lesh
/
Musician
Audience
Consistency
Fine
Height
Plenty
Played
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I was travelling a lot, during the release of 'Dilbar,' to various countries, and the song would be played at random places like lounges, coffee shops, streets, and I realised the song had reached levels that was beyond India.
Nora Fatehi
/
Coffee
Levels
Realised
Release
Shops
Song
Streets
Played
Beyond
Coffee Shops
Countries
Places
Reached
Travelling
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I had a band called the Sound Of Love, and that was R&B songs about girls in my high school. I played in some other indie bands who were trying to make it big; those sucked. Then I started Makeout Videotape, and that was that.
Mac Demarco
/
Singer
Girl
Band
High School
School
Then
Had
Played
Those
High
Indie
Other
Some
Sucked
Videotape
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Everyone knows I'm married; I just don't discuss it. Because it's a part of my life that I'd rather keep private... When your whole life is played out in front of everybody, for your sanity, you need parts that are just yours.
Jay-Z
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Rapper
Married
Sanity
Life Your Keep
Played
Discuss
Life My Life Your
Front
Parts
Private
Yours
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My uncle played rugby, and my dad played football, and they used to argue which game was the roughest - and everybody agreed rugby was. It's a great team sport, and to be successful, every person has to play in the same level.
Clint Eastwood
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Actor
Uncles
Dad
Sports
Football
Great Team
Rugby
Successful
Team
Used
Great Football Game
Great Dad Game
Agreed
Argue
Played
Game
Sport
Same Level
Team Sport
Uncle
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The death penalty has been one of many examples where racial discrimination has played out. You can see it in the simple fact that someone convicted of the same crime is more likely to face the death penalty if they are black.
Pete Buttigieg
/
Death
Black
Crime
Death Penalty
Discrimination
Simple
Face
Played
Been
Same
Convicted
Examples
Likely
Penalty
Racial
See
Simple Fact
Where
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Even though I played in the NBA, we tried to give our kids as normal a life as possible. We gave them everything they needed, not everything they wanted, and they had to work for what they wanted. I think that mentality helped.
Dell Curry
/
Mentality
Nba
Needed
Normal
Played
Gave
Helped
Tried
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When I played Candy Darling in 'I Shot Andy Warhol,' that was easy to play that part. They made me into a woman: I'm in heels; I'm waxed. I'm gonna find the femininity and lay on the bed and take the voice of an old movie star.
Stephen Dorff
/
Actor
Movie
Bed
Candy
Darling
Easy
Femininity
Heels
Made
Movie Star
Voice
Warhol
Andy
Played
Shot
Woman
Star
Take
Find
Part
Old
Gonna
Lay
Waxed
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I was at Pepperdine University in Malibu, and during my sophomore year, I played a dying burn victim on 'ER.' The makeup artist put burn makeup all over my body and I couldn't move or eat for 12 hours. I lost 8 pounds that week.
Eric Christian Olsen
/
Actor
Artist
Dying
Hours
Lost
Makeup
Pounds
Sophomore
Sophomore Year
University
Victim
Week
Eat
Played
Year
Burn
Move
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In 'Mirror Mirror,' I played Prince Charming's side kick Renbock, who was pretty dandy, hapless and innocent. Other than that I've tended to play the complete opposite! I've played gritty, hard characters, generally tough people.
Robert Emms
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Dandy
Innocent
Tough
Opposite
Pretty
Played
Side
Characters
Complete
Complete Opposite
Generally
Gritty
Mirror
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I think I've played a lesbian about five times. The first one was with Helen Baxendale in a drama called 'The Investigator,' about the conditions lesbians had to live under in the army in Britain, which was based on a true story.
Laura Fraser
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Actress
Army
Britain
Conditions
Drama
True Story
True
Played
Based
Times
First One
Investigator
Lesbian
Story
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My dad played guitar, and he taught me enough to play some Beatles' songs. But primarily, I was a bookworm. I loved reading and still do. My whole family does. It was part of the family culture. Accomplished literacy was a value.
K. Flay
/
Dad
Accomplished
Literacy
Reading
Taught
Family Dad Enough
Played
Beatles Songs
Loved
Primarily
Value
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In actual fact, I doubled 'Twelfth Night' and 'The Avengers'. I was going backwards and forwards to Stratford. I played matinees Wednesday, matinee and evenings Saturdays, and the other days of the week, I was filming in Elstree.
Diana Rigg
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Film Actress
Avengers
Backwards
Night
Wednesday
Actual
Played
Days
Filming
Evenings
Fact
Forwards
Saturdays
Stratford
Twelfth
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If you're a woman doing classic theater, the big roles are often destroyers. I've played Hedda Gabler, Lady Macbeth, some of the Chekhovian heroines, Electra, Phaedra - they're all powerful women, but they're forces of negativity.
Eve Best
/
Stage Director
Classic
Heroines
Negativity
Powerful
Theater
Women Woman Doing
Played
Woman
Often
Forces
Lady
Macbeth
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It's a very competitive world out there. The competitive spirit is fine within limits. But it shouldn't drown the sheer joy of the game being played. It's natural to want to win. But to me, it's not natural to want others to fail.
Tiger Shroff
/
Fine
Joy
Limits
Natural
Sheer
Within
Played
Competitive
Drown
Fail
Game World Me
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In 'A Few Best Men,' I play a lesbian character. I played the lesbian sister of the bride who ends up kissing a dude at the end, but she was, like, a full-on lesbian in that. And I beat out famous Australian lesbians for the role.
Rebel Wilson
/
Actress
Sister
Famous
Australian
Character
Ends
Played
Beat
Bride
Dude
Few
Full-On
Lesbian
Role
She
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I think L.A. radio is learning from the Bay. The Bay is a very classic place. Mac Mall, C-Bo, all that stuff, they love their artists, they're old school up there. My first big concert was playing in the Bay; I played the Fillmore.
Ice T
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Rapper
Old School
Classic
Radio
School
Stuff
Artists
Played
Bay
Concert
Old
Place
Mall
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Magic is a state of mind. It is often portrayed as very black and gothic, and that is because certain practitioners played that up for a sense of power and prestige. That is a disservice. Magic is very colorful. Of this, I am sure.
Alan Moore
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Writer
Black
Certain
Colorful
Disservice
Gothic
Magic
Mind
Prestige
Sure
Played
State
Often
Portrayed
Sense
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Baseball is like cricket, and I grew up in a country where they had cricket. So I understand cricket, soccer and basketball. I played basketball at the club level and a little bit in college, so that's why I'm a basketball fanatic.
Patrick Soon-Shiong
/
Surgeon
Baseball
Basketball
College
Country
Cricket
Grew
Little Bit
Soccer
Little
Like
Understand
Had
Why
Played
Bit
Club
Fanatic
Where
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I played an integral part in helpings formulating that new vision... that we must abandon apartheid and accept one united South Africa with equal rights for all, with all forms of discrimination to be scrapped from the statute book.
F. W. De Klerk
/
Abandon
Apartheid
Book
Discrimination
Equal
Equal Rights
Rights
South
South Africa
United
Vision
Accept
Africa
Played
Forms
Part
Integral
Integral Part
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You played 'Snake' on it. That's what we had a cell phone for, when my mother would let us use it. When you had it, you set it down at the table, you set it down in the other room, we ate, and you enjoyed your time with your family.
Myles Garrett
/
Cell Phone
Enjoyed
Time Family Mother
Ate
Played
Cell
Phone
Let Us
Room
Snake
Table
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That's the one regret I have in all the years that I've played professional sports, that I didn't win a championship in the N.F.L. And that's why you play on any level of team sports: you want to win a championship as part of a team.
Warren Moon
/
American Football Player
Sports
Championship
Professional Sports
Regret
Team
Played
Team Sports
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Football has always been a contact sport, and it's always going to be a violent sport, and there are going to be repercussions from that. But every player that ever played this game and will play this game, they're signing up for it.
Ed Reed
/
Football Player
Contact
Football
Repercussions
Signing
Always Football Game
Played
Sport
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My grandmother was whip smart as well as an incredible athlete. She played tennis in her sari, cheered on the Indian team in cricket matches, and tried to convince us that her made-up words were real so she could win a Scrabble game.
Pramila Jayapal
/
Athlete
Convince
Cricket
Grandmother
Indian
Real
Scrabble
Smart
Team
Tennis
Words
Played
Game
Could
Her
Incredible
Matches
Well
She
Tried
Whip
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When playing big festivals, I tend to play big, over the top techno tracks, like hands in the air songs that make sense being played in front of 30,000 people. I steer away from subtlety in the interests of big bombastic dance music.
Moby
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Singer-Songwriter
Dance
Air
Dance Music
Festivals
Hands
Song
Subtlety
Techno
Steer
Played
Music People Dance
Front
Interests
Tend
Top
Tracks
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I am sorry to be leaving the BBC. I have enjoyed a fascinating seven years at the corporation and am particularly proud to have played a small part in the development of the BBC's Global News services, BBC World Service and BBC World.
Pauline Neville-Jones
/
Development
Enjoyed
Fascinating
Leaving
News
Proud
Sorry
Played
Bbc
Corporation
Particularly
Global
Service
Small Part
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When punk came along, I found my generation's music. I grew up listening to the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd, 'cause that was what got played in the house. But when I first saw the Stranglers, I thought, 'This is it.'
Robert Smith
/
Musician
Grew
House
Listening
Punk
Rolling
Rolling Stones
Stones
Played
Came
Cause
Floyd
Generation
Saw
Pink
Pink Floyd
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I played football for a team called the East Dragons on the east side of town. We only had six regular season games. And six games I played tail back and I had 18 touchdowns in six games. That's when I knew I had some athletic ability.
Lebron James
/
Basketball Player
Athletic
Dragons
East
East Side
Football
Games
Six
Team
Played
Regular
Season
Tail
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My grade 3 teacher put on a kids' Christmas concert, and I played the kazoo, so my mother bought me a trumpet. I took lessons for eight years, was in the Kitsilano Boys Band, and I played in the Vancouver Junior Symphony for two years.
Jim Pattison
/
Christmas
Teacher
Band
Eight
Lessons
Symphony
Vancouver
Teacher Mother Me
Christmas Mother Me
Boy
Played
Bought
Concert
Trumpet
Grade
Junior
Took
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The year we went to our first Super Bowl in 1992, we were the youngest team in football. We played in the Super Bowl against a team that had a wealth of playoff experience and Super Bowl experience, and we dominated that football game.
Troy Aikman
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American Football Player
Football
Super Bowl
Wealth
Played
Bowl
Dominated
Super
Youngest
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I've never played for my dad. I played against my dad actually in high school. That was fun, but he taught me how to play the game the right way. Respect the game, give it all you've got and regardless of what happens, have no regrets.
Danny Amendola
/
Respect
Dad
High School
No Regrets
Right Way
Taught
Dad Me Game
Played
Regardless
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I'd love to perform in India, but I don't book the gigs. It's one of the few places I haven't played. One of the Indian instruments that I love is the sitar. I played it on some of my songs, including 'Pyramid of Cheops' and 'Crucify.'
Yngwie Malmsteen
/
Guitarist
Book
Gigs
Including
Indian
Instruments
Love Is
Played
Perform
Places
Pyramid
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I love all sports! I'm always impressed by athletes. I also love watching the Olympic Games. In high school, I played co-ed soccer and basketball. I really enjoyed both of those sports, but I have to admit basketball wasn't my calling.
Olga Fonda
/
Sports
Basketball
Enjoyed
Games
High School
Impressed
Olympic Games
Soccer
Love Always School
Love Sports Always
Admit
Athletes
Played
Olympic
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As a former Airman First Class in the United States Air Force, like many veterans in America, my military experience played an important part in instilling in me a sense of character and discipline that has served me throughout my life.
Chuck Norris
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Martial Artist
Experience
Air
Air Force
America
Character
Class
Discipline
First Class
Force
Former
Important
Military
States
United
United States
Life Experience Character
Played
Part
First
Important Part
Instilling
My Life
Sense
Served
Throughout
Veterans
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I first met Miles Davis about 1947 and played a few jobs with him and Sonny Rollins at the Audubon Ballroom in Manhattan. During this period, he was coming into his own, and I could see him extending the boundaries of jazz even further.
John Coltrane
/
Saxophonist
Jobs
Ballroom
Boundaries
Extending
Jazz
Manhattan
Miles
Davis
Played
Coming
Period
Few
Further
Him
Met
Sonny
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