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Any time I have to get on a plane and leave my kids for a few days, it's kind of tortuous.
Sheena Easton / Film Actress
Kids
Kind
Planes
Plane
Tortuous
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Those who tread among serpents, and along a tortuous path, must use the cunning of the serpent.
Thomas Becket / Saint
Cunning
Path
Serpent
Use
Along
Among
Those
Must
Tortuous
Tread
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In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.
Stephen Gardiner / English Politician
Athens
Cities
House
Luxurious
Spite
Streets
Buildings
Houses
Lined
Narrow
Public Buildings
Tortuous
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To make large, site-specific work as an artist is usually quite tortuous; there are so many boxes you have to tick.
Cornelia Parker / Sculptor
Boxes
Tick
Tortuous
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So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.
Hesiod / Poet
Kings
Devising
Evil
Path
Pay
People
Presumption
Speech
Tortuous
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Using a typewriter, at times, feels more like playing piano than jotting down notes, a percussive exercise in expressing thought that is both tortuous and rewarding.
Mary Pilon /
Exercise
Notes
Typewriter
Expressing
Rewarding
Tortuous
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I don't think anybody, actor or marine, is ever going to enjoy boot camp. It certainly wasn't at all enjoyable. Informative and educational, yes, but it was pretty tortuous.
Ashton Holmes /
Boot Camp
Educational
Enjoyable
Informative
Marine
Boot
Camp
Tortuous
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I don't know if I have a career or not, or where it ends or it begins. I have been working, doing what I do for a long time. But my creative process has always been so tortuous.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu / Film Director
Creative
Creative Process
Long Time
Process
Time Long Long Time
Time Always Long
Time Long Process
Time Always Where
Begins
Tortuous
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The Tigris in parts is wonderfully tortuous, and at one great bend, 'The Devil's Elbow,' a man on foot can walk the distance in less than an hour which takes the steamer four hours to accomplish.
Isabella Bird / Writer
Accomplish
Distance
Bend
Elbow
Foot
Tortuous
Wonderfully
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I think to have done 'Titanic' would have been a tortuous experience altogether. I feel good about where my life is, now. I feel free and joyous and happy and more liberated than I have ever been.
Fay Wray / Actress
Experience
Happy
Done
Feel Good
Joyous
Liberated
Thinking
Life Good Experience
Life Good Done
Now
Free
Altogether
Ever
Life Experience Good
My Life
Titanic
Tortuous
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I try to make everything I write a little bit different. Those songs that go, 'I love you so much and you love me,' they're boring. If I'm going to write a love song, it's going to be a little bit tortuous.
Jane Wiedlin / Musician
Love Me Song
Love Me
Tortuous
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I'm not a very patient person. I'll take those quick risks to see if it's going to work versus taking the long and tortuous road of trying to guarantee myself that something will work. That's like self-mutilation to me.
Nancy Dubuc /
Patient
Versus
Guarantee
Quick
Tortuous
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You need the past as a guideline. The history of music is a good basis, but to escape that stuff, that tortuous rulebook, you have to learn it first. It's kind of like religion - once you've written the Bible, that's it, move on.
John Lydon / Singer-Songwriter
Bible
Moving
Past
Stuff
Basis
Escape
Move On
Tortuous
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The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides.
Octavio Paz / Poet
Divides
Geography
Historical
Mexico
Tall
Truth Is
Abrupt
Mountains
Plateau
Separated
Surrounded
The History Of
Tortuous
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If you are confiding in someone, it needs to be the woman in your life. If that woman is your mother, you may as well scuttle back under her petticoats and let the real women in pencil skirts and tortuous heels get on with the job of husband-hunting.
Katie Hopkins / Television Personality
Heels
Real Women
Skirts
Life Women Woman
Pencil
Tortuous
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I always think that reforms and turning China into a free country is a long and tortuous process. Despite this, in a totalitarian state, the fight for freedom comes from the accumulative efforts of the people; without such efforts, very little will happen.
Liu Xiaobo / Literary Critic
China
Country
Despite
Free Country
Long
Process
Totalitarian State
Free
Turning
Fight
Efforts
Happen
Reforms
Tortuous
Totalitarian
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I remember one of my first international trips to Poland. After a long, tortuous journey, we arrived at the hotel exhausted but without the team management, who had gone ahead of us from the airport in cars, checked into the best rooms, and left us with what was left.
Lynn Davies / Olympic Athlete
Journey
Exhausted
Hotel
International
Management
Poland
Rooms
Ahead
Airport
Checked
Tortuous
Trips
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