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To the untrained eye, poker seems deceptively easy.
Maria Konnikova / Writer
Eye
Poker
Untrained
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I am an untrained musician and a common man's singer.
Kailash Kher / Singer
Musician
Singer
Untrained
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Cartoonists are untrained artists, while illustrators are more trained.
John Kricfalusi / Animator
Artist
Cartoonist
Illustrators
Cartoonists
Trained
Untrained
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I can sing, but my voice is untrained. I'd like to do a musical someday.
Sherilyn Fenn / Actress
Musical
Someday
Untrained
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To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
W. E. B. Du Bois / Historian
Fire
Mind
Play
Weak
Fires
Mighty
Minds
Stimulate
Untrained
Wildly
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To be sure, the vast majority of people who are untrained can accept the results of science only on authority.
Morris Raphael Cohen / Philosopher
Authority
Majority
People
Vast
Untrained
Vast Majority
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Essentially, I'm untrained, so I just go with my imagination and try to put myself as solidly as I can into the shoes of whatever person I'm going to be playing.
Christian Bale / Actor
Imagination
Shoes
Trying
Essentially
Untrained
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With acting, you see some of the kids are literally just off the street, untrained, and they are great. And others are off the street, untrained, and kind of horrible.
Patton Oswalt / Comedian
Kids
Acting
Horrible
Kind
Literally
Untrained
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On 'Sin Nombre,' Adriano Goldman and I improvised a lot of things on-site. We were working with untrained actors, and you can't really block a scene in a traditional way.
Cary Fukunaga / Film Director
Block
Sin
Traditional
Improvised
Traditional Way
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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.
William James / Philosopher
Life
Success
Draws
Everyday
May
Reason
Stand
Find
Dire
Hour
Nigh
Rather
Test
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Teaching methods are often inadequate for the goals faculties are trying to achieve. Important courses such as expository writing and foreign languages are frequently taught by untrained graduate students and underpaid adjunct teachers.
Derek Bok / Lawyer
Achieve
Courses
Graduate Students
Inadequate
Underpaid
Adjunct
Teachers
Languages
Faculties
Foreign
Foreign Languages
Frequently
Graduate
Methods
Untrained
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I've never taken vocal lessons. My early trumpet training and a fortunate talent for singing has always been enough for me. In the case of rock singing, I've always felt it was better to remain a bit untrained to maintain your individuality.
Ronnie James Dio / Vocalist
Enough
Felt
Fortunate
Individuality
Lessons
Rocks
Singing
Taken
Talent
Training
Vocal
Always Enough Your
Bit
Been
Case
Better Always Your
Better Enough Always
Early
Trumpet
Maintain
Rock
Remain
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There are lots of people in the world who do have the advantage of going to a good drama school and just decide that they want to be actors. There's nothing wrong with an untrained actor; they have to get their training somehow, they have to learn.
Erika Slezak / Actress
Advantage
Drama
Good Drama
People
School
Good World People
Lots
Drama School
Somehow
Untrained
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Some people think that movements, such as the movements in ballet, are a higher cultural expression, whereas some are just dirt. I think it is elitist to think that a trained movement is more acceptable than untrained and possibly unrehearsed movements.
Yoko Ono / Artist
Acceptable
Ballet
Dirt
Elitist
Expression
Higher
Movement
People
Thinking
People More Than
Cultural
Possibly
Some People
Trained
Untrained
Whereas
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These are my friends, my family. It would be hell on earth to spend the rest of my life leading them into situations where some of them are going to get killed... but it would be worse watching someone well-meaning but incompetent or untrained double those deaths.
Mercedes Lackey / Author
Incompetent
Deaths
Double
Leading
Untrained
Well-Meaning
Worse
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Writers do not want to think they are less rational than other people, and at the mercy of compulsions, but in their hearts they know they are like those people who are taken for walks by their dogs, towed through hedges and ditches by an untrained sub-human energy.
Hilary Mantel / Writer
Compulsion
Mercy
Rational
Taken
Walks
Dogs
Writers
Hearts
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Because I was from the Midwest and untrained, I was completely open and ready to try anything. Many of my classmates were cynical and jaded; some already had conservatory training, and they were there simply to get that Yale stamp of approval, which they saw as a career stepping-stone.
Laila Robins /
Approval
Classmates
Conservatory
Jaded
Stamp
Untrained
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I would say that maybe directors who act as well are easier with actors. I'm not saying that all directors have this, but sometimes you'll come across a director who sort of looks at an actor a bit like a kind of untrained horse that's been let out of the stable, like they might buck him.
Rebecca Hall / Film Actress
Directors
Easier
Horse
Looks
Stable
Buck
Untrained
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If a doctor said you had stomach cancer, would you consult Rush Limbaugh for a second opinion? Of course, that sounds like nonsense, but many Americans have no qualms about listening to political commentators and untrained activists when it comes to even more complex scientific questions.
Kurt Eichenwald / Editor
Cancer
Nonsense
Qualms
Stomach
Activists
Doctor
Consult
Rush
Scientific
Untrained
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I'm an untrained musician. Untrained musicians don't really have any music theory, they don't have a lot of rules. We break the rules, but it's mostly because we don't know what the rules are. It's easy for us to go to certain places, so I'm not surprised that a lot of people were amused by my songwriting style.
Frank Black /
Amused
Break
Musician
Songwriting
Theory
Rules
Music Style People
Mostly
Places
Surprised
Untrained
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