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You want to be burning calories after you work out. The problem becomes for most people - it's not pleasant, it's painful. You have to have the pain tolerance to be able to deal with that, which a lot of people do not.
Brett Hoebel
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Burning
Calories
Pleasant
Tolerance
Work Out
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I don't like violence, in reel or real life. I prefer the quiet, beautiful genre of movies where everything is rosy and pleasant. I stay away from extreme sadness in my scripts and, somehow, I can't make movies for kids.
Anoop Menon
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Pleasant
Rosy
Sadness
Scripts
Extreme
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When you get released from the NFL it's not a pleasant experience and I may have sulked for about two or three years. Then I was like, 'You know what? It's time to get back on the wagon.' I have nothing to be ashamed of.
Stephen Baker
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Ashamed
Nfl
Pleasant
Pleasant Experience
Released
Wagon
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When he was not talking about race, David Duke was a very pleasant guy to talk to. He was a very nice conversationalist. He seemed like a regular guy on the phone when the subject wasn't on race and on Jews and ethnicity.
Ron Stallworth
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Ethnicity
Not Talking
Pleasant
David
Duke
Jews
Regular Guy
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One of the last episodes was all about a flood. We were working in the rain till all hours, and it was muddy and it was cold and it was damp, and it was hours under the hoses. That was not pleasant. That was not pleasant.
Derek Jacobi
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Actor
Cold
Damp
Episodes
Flood
Hours
Muddy
Pleasant
Rain
Hose
Till
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The only thing about kissing anyone on screen is that forced intimacy is never pleasant. If you don't want to be kissing someone, it's hard to get over that barrier, and so there's a reluctance to be that close to someone.
Matthew Daddario
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Hard
Intimacy
Pleasant
Reluctance
Anyone
Barrier
Close
Forced
Over
Screen
The Only Thing
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It is right and necessary that all should have work to do which shall be worth doing and be of itself pleasant to do, and which should be done under such conditions as would make it neither over-wearisome nor over-anxious.
William Morris
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Artist
Conditions
Pleasant
Work Done Doing
Necessary
Neither
Nor
Shall
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Most people prepare for travels by reading about their destination; it always seemed an odd approach to me. I find it much easier and more pleasant to focus with the sights and smells of a place rattling around in my mind.
Michael Specter
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Journalist
Approach
Destination
Easier
Odd
Pleasant
Reading
Prepare
Rattling
Seemed
Sights
Smells
Travels
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If I become defensive and upset right away, then that's going to adversely affect how I deal with it and it's probably not going to be good press for me and probably be bad just because I'm angry. Just be open and pleasant.
Brandon Routh
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Actor
Angry
Pleasant
Upset
Good Angry Me
Good Me Bad
Affect
Defensive
Just Be
Right Away
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When I look at me, I think I'm a good catch. Why wouldn't somebody like me for me? I'm a pleasant person. I'm an intelligent person. I'm a good person. I'm not bad looking. Why wouldn't I be able to get somebody to like me?
Tina Knowles
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Businesswoman
Good Person
Intelligent
Intelligent Person
Pleasant
Good Me Look
Catch
Good Look Me
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I was in my second year at NYU. I knew what I wanted to do, and I just walked out of college. So, from the age of 17, I've been able to do what I wanted, and that makes for a kind of contentment, a fairly pleasant demeanor.
Norman Lloyd
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Contentment
Demeanor
Nyu
Pleasant
Fairly
Walked
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I rode a bike around town when I was a kid, with my friends, but I never got into cycling as a sport or activity. But, it is really pleasant. It's really nice to hit the mountains with all the trees and everything. I get it.
Andy Samberg
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Actor
Activity
Bike
Cycling
Pleasant
Mountains
Rode
Trees
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It wasn't such a pleasant experience. We went through 14 hours with contractions every two minutes, no epidural, no nothing. Every two minutes, I would pass out. I went to the hospital on Saturday, and Levi was born on Monday.
Camila Alves
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Model
Monday
Pleasant
Saturday
Hospital
Levi
Pleasant Experience
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My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an architect, which was a respectable profession, but I don't think that they actually got to know one another deeply.
Christopher Durang
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Playwright
Architect
Charming
Father
Mother
Pleasant
Profession
Respectable
Thinking
Mother Father Know
Attentive
Father Know Mother
Deeply
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Less Than Zero and American Psycho were both really different, so I was just like, Okay, he's just really doesn't have anything pleasant to say, you know? But I get it. I get at least why it's difficult and what he's really doing.
Shannyn Sossamon
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Actress
Zero
Okay
Pleasant
Psycho
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Apart from a period of crisis during my adolescence, when my voice was changing and I could not tame it - it was like a kicking foal that does not listen to reason - I have always been told I have a pleasant and recognizable voice.
Andrea Bocelli
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Tenor
Adolescence
Crisis
Foals
Kicking
Pleasant
Voice
Apart
Recognizable
Tame
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Debating clubs among boys are very useful, not only as affording pleasant meetings and interesting discussions, but also as serving for training grounds for developing the knowledge and the qualities that are needed in public life.
Annie Besant
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Member Of The London School Board
Boys
Clubs
Developing
Interesting
Meetings
Pleasant
Public Life
Serving
Training
Useful
Debating
Discussions
Grounds
Qualities
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My sexuality is not black and white. I'm a gay man who has occasionally drifted. I am not bi. I've had perfectly pleasant romances with women, but they weren't sustainable. My passion wasn't there. I would always be looking at guys.
Kehinde Wiley
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Painter
Black And White
Pleasant
Sexuality
Women Always Man
Sustainable
Drifted
Occasionally
Perfectly
Romances
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There are people who read Tolstoy or Dostoevski who do not insist that their endings be happy or pleasant or, at least, not be depressing. But if you're writing mysteries - oh, no, you can't have an ending like that. It must be tidy.
Martha Grimes
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Author
Depressing
Pleasant
Tidy
Be Happy
Ending
Insist
Mysteries
Tolstoy
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I was reading scripts, doing coverage, for CAA. Reading hundreds and hundreds of scripts across the board, from blind submissions to 'Brokeback Mountain'. It was not always a pleasant task but something, in hindsight, I'm glad I did.
D. B. Weiss
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Author
Blind
Coverage
Glad
Hindsight
Mountain
Pleasant
Reading
Scripts
Across
Always Doing Something
Board
Hundreds
Submissions
Task
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A single woman with a very narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid - the proper sport of boys and girls; but a single woman of good fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.
Jane Austen
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Novelist
Disagreeable
Fortune
Good Fortune
Income
Pleasant
Respectable
Ridiculous
Sensible
Anybody Else
Boys And Girls
Good May Always
Sport
Maid
Narrow
Old Maid
Proper
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Again and again, I find something eerie in many Irish occasions - the unrelenting whiteness, the emotional tribal attachments, the violent prejudices lurking beneath apparently pleasant social surfaces, the cosy smugness of belonging.
Tom Paulin
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Poet
Belonging
Eerie
Lurking
Pleasant
Unrelenting
Whiteness
Apparently
Prejudices
Tribal
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We all know the place you're in has a big impact on how you feel. How you feel has an impact on the quality of work. Why wouldn't we put a lot of effort into making the place we work as efficient and productive and pleasant as possible?
Jesse Schell
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Video Game Designer
Big Impact
Efficient
Pleasant
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I will say that since our capture we have met with uniform kindness, and while in the penitentiary our relations with the officers have been cordially pleasant, and for their considerate and kind disposition we feel profoundly grateful.
Cole Younger
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Kindness
Capture
Considerate
Disposition
Grateful
Officers
Pleasant
Uniforms
Profoundly
Relations
Uniform
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Through devotion, your family cares become more peaceful, mutual love between husband and wife becomes more sincere, the service we owe to the prince more faithful, and our work, no matter what it is, becomes more pleasant and agreeable.
Saint Francis De Sales
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Bishop Of Geneva
Devotion
Faithful
Husband
Husband And Wife
Mutual
Peaceful
Pleasant
Sincere
Love Family Work
Agreeable
Becomes
Cares
Owe
Service
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I will never forget my beautiful days with you in Shanklin, they are certainly the most pleasant ones of my life. Look, I have tears in my eyes just to think about it. I am furious to be here, it is the end of happiness for a whole year.
Camille Claudel
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Sculptor
Happiness
Beautiful
Eye
Forget
Furious
Never Forget
Pleasant
Tears
Thinking
Whole
Year
Days
Certainly
Here
Eyes
Look
My Life
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What happens is I speak to people outside of my circle of friends and they have already formed an opinion of me based on the things that people have written. That is the effect of journalism on my life, and sometimes it isn't very pleasant.
Robbie Williams
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Singer-Songwriter
Journalism
Pleasant
Life Me My Life
Circle
Effect
Formed
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Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant.
Lucretius
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Poet
Delectable
Joy
Perceive
Pleasant
Sea
Shore
Tribulation
Another
Free
Gaze
Over
Troubles
Waters
Winds
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The first, that their pretensions to this possession of an art properly so called in their art of speaking are entirely unfounded; and the second, that they are involved in a profound mistake in their confusion of the good with the pleasant.
Friedrich Schleiermacher
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Philosopher
Confusion
Involved
Mistake
Pleasant
Possession
Profound
Entirely
Properly
Second
Speaking
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A habit leads a man so gently in the beginning that he does not perceive he is led - with what silken threads and down what pleasant avenues it leads him! By and by, the soft silk threads become iron chains, and the pleasant avenues Avernus!
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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Poet
Avenues
Chains
Habit
Iron
Perceive
Pleasant
Silk
Gently
In The Beginning
Leads
Threads
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An audience is pleasant if you have it, it is flattering and flattering is agreeable always, but if you have an audience the being an audience is their business, they are the audience you are the writer, let each attend to their own business.
Gertrude Stein
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Writer
Audience
Flattering
Pleasant
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When I shoot actors, I have that dilemma. I want the actor to be good, and sometimes I have to push them to a place that isn't pleasant. I always think: 'Is it worth doing for the sake of the movie?' But I have to remember the bigger picture.
Michel Gondry
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Film Director
Actors
Bigger
Bigger Picture
Dilemma
Pleasant
Sake
Thinking
Want
Picture
Shoot
Push
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Watching TV is companionable: you share an experience, you can comment on the action here and there for a bit of conversation... it's a way of showing someone that you want his or her company and engaging in a low-key, pleasant, undemanding way.
Gretchen Rubin
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Author
Comment
Conversation
Engaging
Low Key
Pleasant
Watching Tv
Showing
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There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it.
Joseph Conrad
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Author
Life
Men
Empty
Forgotten
Here And There
Pleasant
Strife
Fable
Hour
Perhaps
Whom
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It's kind of scary sometimes, I've seen this a lot in Asia. Children are given music lessons, very intensively I might add and involving great technical expertise sometimes, but you can tell that they have been told only to play happy pleasant music.
Michael Tilson Thomas
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Conductor
Add
Asia
Expertise
Involving
Lessons
Pleasant
Scary
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I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.
David Rockefeller
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Banker
Friendship
Family
Friends
Relationship
Sad
Good
Money
Cease
Empty
Good Friend
Important
Material Things
Pleasant
Will
Things
Really
Life Sad Good
Life Good Relationship
Very
Lot
Am
Who
Basically
Contribute
Good Friends
Making
Material
Relatives
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They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they're riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world.
Anthony Holden
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Writer
Diplomats
Intelligent
Opinion
Pleasant
Public Opinion
Real
Real World
Status Quo
Track
World Lose People
Civil
Drawn
Intelligent People
Palace
Quo
Servants
Status
The Real World
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Any hand that I've shaken, any person that I met when I was Joe Blow, now that I'm this guy Kevin Hart, has come back. That's why I treat everybody with respect. I'm always a nice pleasant guy to meet because when they come back to you, they remember.
Kevin Hart
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Actor
Blow
Hart
Pleasant
Joe
Shaken
Treat
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As any Brit will understand, things get a little easier when you don't have to be number one any more. Really, the fall of an empire is not as bad as everyone thinks. It's like retirement. People fear retirement, but it can turn out be rather pleasant.
John Oliver
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Comedian
Easier
Fall
Pleasant
Retirement
Fear People Will
Empire
Number
Thinks
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Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.
Louisa May Alcott
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Novelist
Birthday
Inspirational
Life
Work
Age
Beautiful
Delightful
Each Day
Employing
Hours
Old Age
Pleasant
Prove
Youth
Life Success Time
Life Success Work
Then
Understand
Make
Useful
Both
Bring
Old
Day
Each
Few
Regrets
Well
Worth
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I am a writer, and the duty of a writer is not only to furnish pleasant pursuits for the mind and taste: he will be held accountable if things useful to the soul are not disseminated by his works and if nothing remains after him as a precept for mankind.
Nikolai Gogol
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Dramatist
Mankind
Pleasant
Remains
Accountable
Furnish
Held
Precept
Pursuits
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Pancakes are simple. They're diner food. They're what you make on a Sunday morning with the kids. Crepes are fancy. They're French-bistro food. They're what you make once a week after your Parisian vacation because you want to relive some pleasant memories.
J. Kenji Lopez-Alt
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Vacation
Fancy
Memories
Pancakes
Pleasant
Simple
Sunday
Sunday Morning
After
Diner
Once A Week
Relive
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When you're out there doing things, your adrenaline is rushing so much. But getting kicked in the face is never fun. There have been a lot of different painful things, but when you're kicked in the face or kneed in the face, it's not the most pleasant thing.
Lana
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Adrenaline
Painful
Pleasant
Rushing
Pleasant Thing
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L.A. is a very strange place. On the surface, it has an innocent appearance, like the stranger with the pleasant face that smiles and shakes your hand. But then you learn it is actually a lot less nice than you think, and there's a whole deeper, darker level.
Zach Galligan
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Appearance
Deeper
Innocent
Pleasant
Shakes
Strange
Darker
Hand
Smiles
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There is something about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all feats - and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It's the intense effort, the giving of everything you've got. It's really a very pleasant sensation.
Edmund Hillary
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Mountaineer
Building
Company
Comradeship
Effort
Feats
Giving
Intense
Peers
Pleasant
Greatest
Dangers
Still
Got
Sensation
Sharing
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I've met some very difficult people and I've had some very difficult conversations and had lots of criticism, especially from away supporters who sing songs that aren't very pleasant. So I think part and parcel of life is accepting that not everyone likes you.
Karren Brady
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Executive
Criticism
Likes
Parcel
Pleasant
Life People Difficult
Lots
Conversations
Difficult People
Life Difficult People
Part And Parcel
Supporters
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'Tim Timtya' was different from what I usually do. I had to develop a texture to go with the song. In fact, many told me I sounded like Shreya Goshal, which came as a pleasant surprise. Transitioning from tracks like 'Sunny Sunny' to this one was quite different.
Neha Kakkar
/
Pleasant
Song
Sunny
Surprise
Texture
Develop
In Fact
Tim
Tracks
Transitioning
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A children's author on a soapbox is not a pleasant sight but I have become drawn into issues, slightly unwillingly, relating to young people, literacy and youth justice: just look at the number of young people we have locked up in prison, and the uselessness of it.
Anthony Horowitz
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Novelist
Literacy
Locked
Locked Up
Pleasant
Sight
Soapbox
Youth
Author
Drawn
Relating
Unwillingly
Young People
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I don't want to approach reading from the viewpoint of that it's a pleasant adjunct to your life. I want to approach it from the idea that you have to read or you're going to suffer. There's a difference to be made - and you can make it if you read with your child.
Walter Dean Myers
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Writer
Pleasant
Adjunct
Suffer
Viewpoint
Your Child
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There's this assumption that all children have the luxury of a childhood where their innocence is always respected and their main occupation is pleasant play - at the age of 18 or 21, they are then thrust into the real world and shown its uglier side, but not before.
Margo Lanagan
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Writer
Assumption
Childhood
Innocence
Luxury
Occupation
Pleasant
Real World
Thrust
Age Always World
Side
Main
Shown
The Real World
Uglier
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