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“In the theater we're like blue-collar workers: It's a physical job, you don't make a lot of money, and you're on the road all the time. It's worth it in that it's the best job in the world, but you have to negotiate living in cities that don't always accommodate you.”

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Author:Randy Harrison

“Here in Brussels, we did everything to accommodate David Cameron's concerns. My collaborators and I personally spent countless days and nights negotiating an agreement that was fair toward the United Kingdom and toward the other 27 Member States. I was then very surprised to see that this settlement played no role whatsoever in the campaign in the United Kingdom. At the same time it is hardly surprising.”

“Conservatism's not the answer. The Republican Party has to reach out, moderate and modify its views to be able to accommodate radical Democrats, minorities, and so forth.”

Able Answers Views Party Republican Democrat Radical Minorities Reach Out Republican Party Moderates Conservatism Accommodate

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“You've got to stand as you exist. You can change the height of the podium to accommodate your height, but you cannot have a stool. You cannot have footstool or any of that.”

Height Accommodate Stools

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“The mark of the developed intellect is that it could accommodate two contradictory ideas at the same time.”

Two Ideas Mark Intellect Contradictory Accommodate

Author:John Kao

“In the early years, I was able to accommodate most of the requests and favors that came my way, but as the requests multiplied, I had to make tough choices because the numbers were more than I could handle.”

Way Years Able Choices Numbers Tough Favors Handle My Way Request Accommodate Tough Choices

Author:LaVell Edwards

“We lack an organization that will support fashion week. The five-day week shows a lack of vision and that we are not able to command respect. I am not saying it's anyone's fault in particular, it's our fault. We have the highest concentration of brands, how can we accommodate everyone in four or five days?”

Shows Able Vision Support Five Four Week Fashion Particular Highest Organization Faults Command Brands Concentration Accommodate Fashion Week

Author:Franca Sozzani

“In Hollywood Westerns even in the Thirties and Forties, history was mythologized to accommodate some kind of moral code. And what really affects me deeply is when you see it taken to the extent where Native Americans become mythical people.”

People Kind Moral Taken Hollywood Code Native Forty Native American Accommodate Moral Code

Author:Jim Jarmusch

“Paul Ryan and his allies, who include Mike Pence, are congressional conservative Republicans, they have a very clear conservative agenda. The question will be who has to bend more to accommodate the other - Mr. Trump accommodate their ideology, or will they have to accommodate his? And if he can rally audiences behind him, we could see a very interesting intra-party war of a kind we haven't seen in a really long time.”

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Author:Sam Tanenhaus

“I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.”

I Can Would Be Feet Position Fool Accommodate Metamorphosis

Author:Jack Kemp

“The problem is that the economy isn't growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process.”

Enough Problem Process Levels Economy Growing Democratic Spending Accommodate Democratic Process

Author:Jack Kemp

“Take a very striking case in point: the Russian Bolsheviks. [Vladimir] Lenin created an alleged workers' party, which in every way reflected the Czarist machine, in order to deal with Czarism. And the danger and the hazards of trying to accommodate libertarian principles to the political process as we know it today is that one begins to dissolve the libertarian principles. So I would say that there is an inconsistency there that should be explored.”

Knows Way Should Trying Today Political Order Process Deals Party Principles Cases Danger Machines Workers Libertarian Hazards Accommodate Inconsistency Bolsheviks

Author:Murray Bookchin

“I think our conception of literature should accommodate not only apolitical writers but also those whose political opinions we find unpalatable. Fiction after all comes from a different, less rationally manipulable side of the brain. I am personally very attached to reactionary figures like Dostoyevsky, Hamsun, and Céline.”

Thinking Should Different Political Literature Sides Lines Brain Fiction Opinion Figures Conception Accommodate Reactionaries Dostoyevsky Apolitical Political Opinions

Author:Pankaj Mishra

“The first ten, twelve or fifteen years of life are excavated of inherent moral worth in order to accommodate a regimen of basic training for the adult years that many of the poorest children may not even live to know.”

Knows Years Firsts May Children Order Moral Ten Training Adults Twelve Inherent Fifteen Poorest Accommodate Fifteen Years Years Of Life Basic Training

Book:Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope

Source: Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope

“This is the pain pacemaker. I've got a battery under my skin. From that battery are two electrodes that go into the spine where they cut bone away to accommodate it. Now I put on the power here. If I have the pain, the stimulator starts. It's tingling, like when your foot falls asleep, you know?”

Ifs Knows Two Pain Fall Cutting Feet Skins Bones Spine Accommodate Batteries Pacemakers

Author:Jerry Lewis

“Music TV in the U.K. is disappearing. 'Top Of The Pops,' 'CD:UK' and shows like that have gone, and it's bringing down the music industry. We should do as much as we can to keep our music TV and producers need to be more willing to accommodate live music.”

Needs Should Shows Gone Willing Tvs Industry Pops Disappear Producers Cds Music Industry Accommodate Live Music

Author:Leona Lewis

“I was a weedy kid, not like one of those working-class men who can accommodate not being academically clever by physical strength and prowess.”

Men Kids Class Clever Working Class Accommodate Prowess Physical Strength

Author:Ken Livingstone

“In my 20s I was in constant pain from undiagnosed endometriosis. With no prospect of a cure, I decided I needed a career - writing - that could accommodate being ill.”

Writing Pain Careers Needed Decided Constant Ill Cures Accommodate

Author:Hilary Mantel

“Communities need to feel that they can accommodate people. Rather than feeling that it's not possible to integrate and that the stress and strain on housing and public services is too great.”

People Needs Feels Feelings Community Stress Strain Housing Public Service Integrating Accommodate

Author:Theresa May

“I've never set up any golf course that would favor anybody. I try to make it exactly the opposite, which is what we did at Valhalla when we modernized it to accommodate the lengths players are hitting it today.”

Trying Today Courses Player Opposites Golf Favors Length Hitting Golf Course Accommodate Valhalla

Author:Jack Nicklaus

“The best actors instinctively feel out what the other actors need, and they just accommodate it.”

Needs Feels Actors Inspiring Filmmaker Movie Accommodate

Author:Christopher Nolan

“In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved to accommodate it.”

Years Brain Century Average Rapids Accommodate Life Span Average Life

Author:Martha Beck

“To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.”

Form Artist Tasks Chaos Mess Accommodate Waiting For Godot

Author:Samuel Beckett

“Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response.”

Giving Writing Sometimes Wonderful Groups Strange Giving Up Response Edges Accommodate Advocating

Author:Mary Oliver

“I've always been the kind of person that if I take on anything professionally it means commitment to me, so you take it on if you can commit to it and if you know you can accommodate and give your best to it and that's what you do, and I have always done that throughout my life - before marriage, after marriage, before motherhood, after motherhood.”

Ifs Knows Giving Kind Mean Persons Done Commitment Motherhood Commit Accommodate Before Marriage

Author:Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

“By 2050, the Australian population is expected to grow from 22 million to 36 million. That increase alone will put huge pressure on our towns and our cities. We will need more homes, more roads, more rail lines, more hospitals, more schools, just to accommodate so many Australians.”

Needs Home School Grows Lines Cities Millions Huge Increase Pressure Towns Population Expected Hospitals Australian Rail Accommodate Our Town

Author:Kevin Rudd

“Mission accomplished. The Museum of Modern Art's wide-open, tall-ceilinged, super-reinforced second floor was for all intents and purposes built to accommodate monumental installations and gigantic sculptures, should the need arise. It has arisen.”

Needs Should Art Purpose Modern Built Missions Wide Arise Accomplished Tall Museums Sculpture Accommodate Modern Art Installation Mission Accomplished

Author:Jerry Saltz

“We started this band as kids, and as time has gone on, we've grown and are learning to accommodate each others' differences.”

Kids Differences Gone Band Accommodate

Author:Layne Staley

“I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.”

People Should I Can Positivity Jealous Accommodate Changing My Life

Author:Sting

“History shows that when the church accommodates culture, it weakens it.”

Shows Culture Church Accommodate

Author:Rick Warren

“Over the years I have developed a picture of what a human being living humanely is like. She is a person who understand, values and develops her body, finding it beautiful and useful; a person who is real and is willing to take risks, to be creative, to manifest competence, to change when the situation calls for it, and to find ways to accommodate to what is new and different, keeping that part of the old that is still useful and discarding what is not.”

“In Europe life retreats out of the cold, and exquisite fireside myths have resulted—Balder, Persephone—but [in India] the retreat is from the source of life, the treacherous sun, and no poetry adorns it because disillusionment cannot be beautiful. Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity have a form, and India fails to accommodate them.”

Men May Beautiful Form Joy Desire Sun Failing Source Cold Sorrow Europe India Myth Infinity Retreat Exquisite August Accommodate Disillusionment Treacherous Source Of Life Persephone

Author:E. M. Forster

“...the gym is a kind of wildlife preserve for bodily exertion. A preserve protects species whose habitat is vanishing elsewhere, and the gym (and home gym) accommodates the survival of bodies after the abandonment of the original sites of bodily exertion.”

Kind Home Body Protect Survival Originals Species Preserves Gym Elsewhere Site Abandonment Wildlife Accommodate Exertion Habitat Vanishing

Author:Rebecca Solnit

“The Revolutionary Hill Estates had not been designed to accommodate a tragedy. Even at night, as if on purpose, the development held no looming shadows and no gaunt silhouettes. It was invincibly cheerful, a toyland of white and pastel houses whose bright, uncurtained windows winked blandly through a dappling of green and yellow leaves … A man running down these streets in desperate grief was indecently out of place.”

“and we must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range of music, and will not vibrate in the least under a touch that fills others with tremulous rapture or quivering agony.”

Humans Soul Discovery Instruments Range Agony Human Soul Rapture Accommodate Vibrate

Book:Adam Bede: Top Novelist Focus

Source: Adam Bede: Top Novelist Focus

“Until I am free to write bilingually and to switch codes without having always to translate, while I still have to speak English or Spanish when I would rather speak Spanglish, and as long as I have to accommodate the English speakers rather than having them accommodate me, my tongue will be illegitimate. I will no longer be made to feel ashamed of existing. I will have my voice: Indian, Spanish, white. I will have my serpent's tongue - my woman's voice, my sexual voice, my poet's voice. I will overcome the tradition of silence.”

Feels Writing Long Made Stills Speak Voice White Silence Poet Tradition Overcoming Tongue Indian Code Ashamed Speakers Translate Accommodate Serpent Speak English

Author:Gloria E. Anzaldúa

“Let’s find someplace where there aren’t any dead people, insects, or rodents. For that matter, someplace that’s big enough to accommodate both of us without crimping any internal organs. (Shahara) Picky, picky, picky. (Syn)”

People Matter Enough Bigs Internals Organs Insects Accommodate Dead People Picky Rodents

Book:The League: Nemesis Rising, Books 1-3: Born of Night, Born of Fire, Born of Ice

Source: The League: Nemesis Rising, Books 1-3: Born of Night, Born of Fire, Born of Ice

“Enjoy the elastic present, which can accommodate as little or as much as you want to put in there. Stretch it out, live inside of it.”

Want Littles Enjoy Accommodate

Book:How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel

Source: How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel

“Being raised in an unstable household makes you understand that the world doesn't exist to accommodate you, which... is something a lot of people struggle to understand well into their adulthood. It makes you realize how quickly a situation can shift, how danger really is everywhere. But crises when the occur, do not catch you off guard; you have never believed you lived under a shelter of some essential benevolence. And an unstable childhood makes you appreciate calmness and not crave excitement.”

“And the west, encumbered by crippling alliances, and hardened with a morality too rigid to accommodate itself to the swing of events, must ..... eventually ..... fall.”

Fall Events Morality West Swings Alliances Accommodate Hardened

Author:Edward Albee

“We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.”

“I ask to be made beautiful like the trees are beautiful, each growing according to a unique plan. Lop off a limb and and the tree will accommodate it's loss, still growing and still beautiful. It is my hope to be able to flourish in a similar fashion, taking on the shape and dimensions that is intended for me.”

Made Stills Able Beautiful Asks Loss Growing Plans Tree Fashion Shapes Unique Dimensions Limbs Accommodate

Book:The Writing Diet: Write Yourself Right-Size

Source: The Writing Diet: Write Yourself Right-Size

“One tended to lose one’s bearings in the presence of willful and persistent acts of craziness, and the more gentle the act, the crazier it seemed, as if rage and violence, being closer to the norm, were easier to accommodate.”

Ifs Loses Violence Easier Rage Gentle Norm Persistent Accommodate Craziness

Book:Skinny Legs and All

Source: Skinny Legs and All

“Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.”

Knows Enough Universe Brave Strive Admire Strife Be Brave Knowing God Accommodate

Book:Contact

Source: Contact

“To be inclusive you must accommodate different levels of sophistication.”

Different Levels Accommodate Sophistication Different Levels

Author:Jeffrey Eugenides

“Memory is slippery. It bends to our understanding of the world, twists to accommodate our prejudices. It is unreliable. Witnesses seldom remember the same things. They identify the wrong people. They give us the details of events that never happened. Memory is slippery, but my memories suddenly feel slipperier.”

People World Giving Feels Remember Understanding Memories Happened Events Prejudice Details Witness Twists Accommodate Slippery Unreliable

Book:White Cat

Source: White Cat

“I don't know [why we're here]. People sometimes say to me, 'Why don't you admit that the humming bird, the butterfly, the Bird of Paradise are proof of the wonderful things produced by Creation?' And I always say, well, when you say that, you've also got to think of a little boy sitting on a river bank, like here, in West Africa, that's got a little worm, a living organism, in his eye and boring through the eyeball and is slowly turning him blind. The Creator God that you believe in, presumably, also made that little worm. Now I personally find that difficult to accommodate.”

“The first horror is there's horror. The second is you accommodate it.”

Firsts Horror Accommodate

Book:The Last Werewolf (The Last Werewolf 1)

Source: The Last Werewolf (The Last Werewolf 1)

“If I'm among men who don't agree at all with my nature, I will hardly be able to accommodate myself to them without greatly changing myself. A free man who lives among the ignorant strives as far as he can to avoid their favors. A free man acts honestly, not deceptively. Only free man are genuinely useful to one another and can form true friendships. And it's absolutely permissible, by the highest right of Nature, for everyone to employ clear reason to determine how to live in a way that will allow him to flourish.”

Ifs Men Way Reason Able Form Clear Highest Agree Strive Determine Favors Honestly Ignorant Strife True Friendship Free Man Accommodate Changing Myself

Author:Irvin D. Yalom

“As Heinz Pagels has said, The challenge to our civilization which has come from our knowledge of the cosmic energies that fuels the stars, the movement of light and electrons through matter, the intricate molecular order which is the biological basis of life, must be met by the creation of a moral and political order which will accommodate these forces or we shall be destroyed. It will try our deepest resources of reason and compassion.”

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