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David Frost plucked me from the nightclubs.
Ronnie Corbett / Actor
Frost
Nightclubs
David
Plucked
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Few things grace a plate as dramatically as a whole plucked upland bird, however it's cooked.
Jonathan Miles /
Bird
Grace
Cooked
Dramatically
Few Things
Plate
Plucked
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I was discovered, or mentored, by Norman Lear, who plucked me from the grinder of relative obscurity.
Alan Thicke / Actor
Grinder
Lear
Obscurity
Relative
Norman
Plucked
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A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.
Honore De Balzac / Novelist
Wedding
Flower
Guilty
Literature
Wife
Bride
Plucked
Walked
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She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
O. Henry / Writer
Invisible
Ownership
Universal
Act
Lapel
Plucked
Proclaim
Strand
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I'm really drawn to adventure, and characters being plucked from normal life and sent on extraordinary adventures.
Doug Liman / Film Director
Adventure
Extraordinary
Normal Life
Drawn
Plucked
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At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.
Ellen Key / Writer
Experience
Parenting
Every Step
Real
Should
Thorns
Child
Allowed
Never
Every
His
Meet
Plucked
Roses
Step
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The Ritz Hotel has never yet provided game of such wondrous flavor as the bird plucked and half-cooked over the small boys' camp fire.
Herbert Hoover / 31St U.s. President
Bird
Flavor
Hotel
Ritz
Wondrous
Camp
Plucked
Provided
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I'm certainly not the first person to be in a relationship with a younger man, but somehow I was plucked out as a bit of a poster girl.
Demi Moore / Actress
Plucked
Poster
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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Abraham Lincoln / 16Th U.s. President
Death
Kindness
Motivational
Gardening
Flower
Said
Grow
Planted
Plucked
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I owe a lot to Rosshan, who literally plucked me from obscurity as a keyboard performer and handed me the background score of 'Notebook.'
Gopi Sundar /
Notebook
Obscurity
Handed
Owe
Performer
Plucked
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A fan once asked if he could have a piece of my hair for voodoo. I said no, so he hugged me and plucked out a couple of hairs and ran off.
Amy Lee / Singer
Couple
Fans
Hair
Ran
Said
Voodoo
Asked
Fan
Could
Hairs
Off
Piece
Plucked
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I have reached out my hand, I have plucked the fruits of the Gospel, I have eaten of them, and they are sweet, yea, above all that is sweet.
Heber J. Grant /
Fruit
Hands
Sweet
Gospel
Eaten
Fruits
Plucked
Reached
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I mean ESPN plucked me out of nowhere and I'm forever grateful for the opportunity. I don't love the way it ended. But I'm not a grudge-holder.
Colin Cowherd / Radio Host
Espn
Love Opportunity Me
Nowhere
Plucked
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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
D. H. Lawrence / Novelist
Best Friend
Boyfriend
Love
Life
Smile
Gardening
Duration
Enjoyed
Flower
Found
Law
Love Is
Blossoms
Brief
Without
Must
Hour
Plucked
Unexpectedly
Where
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It was such a culture shock for me, being plucked from this diverse neighborhood in London into Jamaica Queens. I'm in this new environment, and I had an English accent.
Ella Mai /
Queens
Diverse
Environment
Jamaica
London
Neighborhood
Shock
Accent
Plucked
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Some feel as though the world is their oyster; others feel as though they were the oyster itself, plucked from the ocean, cracked open, and robbed of all that is precious to them.
Joseph B. Wirthlin / Businessman
Ocean
Cracked
Oyster
Plucked
Precious
Robbed
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I would never be one to go striding over to any woman who caught my eye - after all, I'm the person who got to know my wife's parents before I plucked up the courage to talk to her.
Stephen Hendry /
Caught
Plucked
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I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.
Philip Johnson / Architect
Deny
Mold
Riches
Something New
Tradition
Twists
Onto
Plucked
Twist
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My mother was a stout woman with a man's name - Billie. She was plain-faced with honest eyes - no black grease by the lash line, no blue powder on the lids, eyebrows not plucked up high and thin.
Charles M. Blow / Journalist
Blue
Eyebrows
Grease
Powder
Lash
Plucked
Thin
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Sometimes it seems President Obama lives in a parallel universe where facts are floating around to be plucked out of suspended animation. Never more so than on the effects of the Affordable Care Act.
Stephen Moore /
Affordable
Affordable Care Act
Effects
Floating
President Obama
Suspended
Parallel
Plucked
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The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn't just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range of new harmonics, effectively turning a plucked string instrument into a bowed one.
Brian Eno / Musician
Guitar
Produce
Range
Sound
Amplifier
Turning
Effectively
Instrument
Louder
Marshall
Plucked
String
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The thing about the Air Force or any branch of the military is that all of us were plucked away from our homes and our comfort zones and our families. So there was a solidarity in the military, a brotherhood.
Jon Huertas / Actor
Home
Air
Air Force
Brotherhood
Comfort
Military
Solidarity
Zone
Branch
Homes
Plucked
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I never imagined I'd go into acting, but I always loved drama, and when I was 16, I discovered the Library Theatre up the road. So I plucked up courage and asked if I could watch rehearsals. It was like Heaven.
Lesley Nicol / Film Actress
Heaven
If I Could
Plucked
Rehearsals
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The younger generation of filmmakers is concerned about our roots, rather than making films with characters plucked out of the cloud or some English DVD. Actually since 2000, Tamil cinema is going through some positive changes.
Vetrimaaran /
Positive
Cinema
Concerned
Roots
Younger Generation
Younger
Cloud
Films
Generation
Plucked
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Las vegas shouldn't exist. The incongruity hits you from the moment you first glimpse it from the airplane. First mountains, then desert, then neat squares of identical houses that look as if they were plucked straight from Monopoly.
Maria Konnikova / Writer
Airplane
Desert
Glimpse
Identical
Incongruity
Las Vegas
Monopoly
Neat
Squares
Vegas
Mountains
Exist
Hits
Houses
Straight
Plucked
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My first movie ever was 'Breaking Away.' I stumbled into an incredible part in a movie that was incredible to be a part of. Peter Yates, the director, became a lifelong friend. He sort of plucked me from obscurity and gave me a life.
Daniel Stern /
Lifelong
Obscurity
Peter
Became
Breaking
Director
Friend
Gave
Plucked
Stumbled
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Once in high school, I completely over plucked my left eyebrow all the way up to where you're not supposed to. I had no idea what I was doing and it looked terrible! My mom was like 'What did you do to yourself?' I was so embarrassed.
Ashley Tisdale / Actress
Mom
Embarrassed
Eyebrows
No Idea
School
Eyebrow
Plucked
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Everywhere on the Continent, the tourist is looked upon as a bird to be plucked, and presently the bird himself feebly comes to regard plucking as his proper destiny and abjectly holds out his wing so long as there is a feather left on it.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich / Poet
Bird
Regard
Continent
Feather
Holds
Plucked
Proper
Tourist
Wing
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It used to bother me - having bigger, fuller brows. I even plucked them once so I'd fit in, but I hated them and couldn't wait for them to grow back. Now I embrace them. I realized the quirky things that make you different are what make you beautiful.
Lily Collins / Film Actress
Quirky
Beautiful
Bigger
Bother
Different
Embrace
Waiting
Brow
Fuller
Wait
Plucked
Realized
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We, America, elected Trump. Putin didn't do it, nor the trolls in St. Petersburg with their zillions of busy bots. They may well have plucked certain strings in the national psyche - played us like a dimestore ukulele - but we were keen to be plucked.
Ben Fountain / Fiction Writer
Busy
Putin
Strings
Ukulele
Elected
Plucked
Psyche
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I was discovered out of nowhere. I didn't have family that was in the industry. I didn't know anyone in L.A.; I didn't have any reason to have been discovered. Nowadays, you have YouTube, and people are scouting more, but I really was plucked out of obscurity.
Bonnie Mckee /
Obscurity
Scouting
Youtube
Family People Know
Nowadays
Plucked
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Gas prices and train fares seem to be the two commodities for modern British life that base their prices on a whim, or numbers plucked out of thin air, without a thought to the real cost to those for whom those price hikes mean unimaginable sacrifices in their day to day lives.
Jack Monroe /
Air
British
Cost
Gas
Gas Prices
Numbers
Unimaginable
Whim
Base
Commodities
Hikes
Plucked
Price
Sacrifices
Seem
Thin
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As a novelist, you have to pick your battles. You are tired. You have begun to experience the first ominous tinglings of carpal tunnel syndrome. You wake up in the middle of the night with both hands lying across your chest like a couple of plucked bird carcasses, dead of all sensation.
Lynn Coady / Novelist
Experience
Bird
Couple
Lying
Middle
Night
Ominous
Tired
Wake Up
Across
Battles
Begun
Chest
Dead
Novelist
Sensation
Pick
Plucked
Syndrome
Tunnel
Wake
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Change is a continuous process. You cannot assess it with the static yardstick of a limited time frame. When a seed is sown into the ground, you cannot immediately see the plant. You have to be patient. With time, it grows into a large tree. And then the flowers bloom, and only then can the fruits be plucked.
Mamata Banerjee / Indian Politician
Change
Be Patient
Flower
Limited Time
Patient
Plant
Process
Static
Tree
Then
Only
Assess
Bloom
Cannot
Flowers
Continuous
Frame
Fruits
Ground
Immediately
Large
Limited
Plucked
See
Sown
Time Frame
Yardstick
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Jobs, as such, are a relatively new concept. People may have always worked, but until the advent of the corporation in the early Renaissance, most people just worked for themselves. They made shoes, plucked chickens, or created value in some way for other people, who then traded or paid for those goods and services.
Douglas Rushkoff / Writer
Jobs
Advent
Chickens
Goods
People
Renaissance
Shoes
Concept
Corporation
Relatively
Plucked
Services
Traded
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Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.
Adam Devine / Comedian
Berries
Businessman
Consistency
Made
Neighbor
Nickelodeon
Quarters
Tree
Course
Figured
Off
Plucked
Smashed
Sold
Types
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I went back to Dallas for a little while to finish my short film 'Rusty Forkblade.' It was not the instant success I thought it was going to be. There's a false narrative that if you make a short film right after senior year, you'll be plucked out to make a feature length film, and the rest is history. I didn't do that.
Evan Daugherty / Screenwriter
Dallas
Instant
Length
Narrative
Senior
Senior Year
False
Feature
Finish
Little While
Plucked
Rusty
Short Film
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My aunt is the director of the acapella group Black Voices. I was so struck by them as a child. They sang with such passion and conviction. By the time I turned 15, I had plucked up the courage to ask if I could join the group. Acapella is a different discipline from singing with an accompaniment - it is much more exposed.
Laura Mvula / Singer-Songwriter
Courage
Aunt
Conviction
Discipline
Exposed
If I Could
Passion
Singing
Ask
Director
By The Time
Group
Join
Sang
Plucked
Struck
Voices
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David Lynch plucked me from obscurity. He cast me as the lead in 'Dune' and 'Blue Velvet,' and people have seen me as this boy-next-door-cooking-up-something-weird-in-the-basement ever since. I was 23 when I first met him, in his bungalow on the Universal lot, and could never have predicted we would have such an enduring relationship.
Kyle Maclachlan / Actor
Blue
Obscurity
Universal
Velvet
Relationship Me People
David
Cast
David Lynch
Dune
Enduring
Lead
Met
Plucked
Predicted
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In high school, the drama program shifted to musicals, and that's not a skill set I possess, so I let sports be my outlet, and I agreed to play football in college. I was invited to play at the University of Missouri, and I played there for a year, but when all of the talented people are plucked and put in one place, it's scary; it's tough.
Charlie Weber /
Drama
High School
Invited
Missouri
Program
Scary
Tough
University
Agreed
Talented
Musicals
Outlet
Plucked
Possess
Shifted
Skill
Talented People
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