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• What makes autocorrect really interesting for a lexicographer is we read in a very weird way. A lot of times we'll catch things that are so clearly autocorrect typos, and you learn to tell the difference between an honest-to-goodness, ham-fisted typo and an autocorrect typo because the latter will not necessarily be a difference of one letter apart on the keyboard, which is usually what typos are, or it won't be the wrong its or the wrong there.

  Kory Stamper

  Interesting

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I thought Brittany Packnett, who was one of the Ferguson activists, really interesting, smart young lady, really impressive - you might want to talk with her. So she was one of the organizers of the Ferguson movement, ended up joining our task force. She came in here and she just knew her stuff.

  Barack Obama

  Smart, Interesting, Tasks

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• Create a really interesting, complex person that you want to know more about, and take her on a journey that is rich and fulfilling and that has an end that is perfectly fulfilling, and that has an end that is perfect for that character, and the audience will love it.

  Frank Spotnitz

  Character, Journey, Perfect

  "‘Hunted’ creator Frank Spotnitz on his new Cinemax drama & ‘The X-Files’ legacy". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. October 19, 2012.

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• Well, obviously I was excited by the idea that Woody Allen was going to direct it. But at the same time, the script itself and the character was really interesting.

  Radha Mitchell

  Character, Ideas, Interesting

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• I love working with male actors, and I think there's a tendency to write really interesting characters that would work solely alongside men where they would be in a man's world and have to deal with that, and it creates a lot of interesting storylines. For me, it's kind of circumstantial, but I definitely enjoy it.

  Elisabeth Moss

  Writing, Character, Men

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, tv.avclub.com. July 21, 2010.

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• People return my phone calls now, which is really interesting. I'll tell you what I've learned that's kind of bittersweet. So many doors have opened up. I've met everybody in the business. I'm fortunate people want to work with me.

  Tate Taylor

  Phones, Doors, Interesting

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• Howard the Duck!' That's a really interesting movie. I appreciate my career, because I've had a lot of very interesting ups and downs, and most people... That movie is such a famous flop. In a land of a lot of flops, it's kind of awesome to be in a really famous flop. I mean, it's kind of a poster child for flops.

  Lea Thompson

  Children, Mean, Land

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• One tries to be an observer as an actor and indeed as a director because the small things, the give-away things are what are really interesting to a performer.

  Janet Suzman

  Giving, Interesting, Trying

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• A lot of the stuff I've accumulated over the last few years of touring I thought was really interesting. Like sounds, sound bites, and beats even, but they weren't good dance beats they weren't ones anyone would want to rap over or anything.

  Kid Koala

  Rap, Years, Interesting

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• I think when you take forever off the table, it does something really interesting to what you think is important.

  Lorene Scafaria

  Thinking, Interesting, Forever

  "Hollywood's Indie Spirit" by Ashley Terrill, www.elle.com. June 29, 2012.

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• I was blessed to grow up in really interesting times and to go back to a home where I was very safe.

  Dennis Lehane

  Growing Up, Blessed, Home

  "A life in writing: Dennis Lehane". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2009.

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• Literature gives us a window into other people's experiences in other places, in other times, so I thought it would be really interesting to investigate how different people had written about motherhood, and childhood.

  Natalie Merchant

  Motherhood, People, Giving

  "Natalie Merchant: mother superior" by Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. July 08, 2010.

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• It's really interesting with art-movies too, but art especially - to see how your attitude toward artists and works and your level of appreciation of them is always shifting and changing over the years.

  Richard Hell

  Appreciation, Art, Attitude

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• What's really interesting is the introduction of the tablet - not just the iPad, but the Nook and the Kindle. While they aren't going to solve all of our problems, I do think they make it easier for people to pause, linger, read and really process very important ideas.

  Chris Hughes

  Thinking, Ideas, Ipads

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• It's really interesting to me how all of us can experience the exact same event, and yet come away with wildly disparate interpretations of what happened. We each have totally different ideas of what was said, what was intended, and what really took place.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Ideas, Interesting, Different

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• What's really interesting and fun to explore is not just the falling in love and everything being great, but the obstacles to falling in love.

  Patrick J. Adams

  Falling In Love, Fun, Interesting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Different people call me different things. In America, people really struggle with my name, so I don't have a nickname as such. I've had Sharlito, Sheldon, Charldo, really interesting variations on the name.

  Sharlto Copley

  Struggle, Names, America

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• Once you see dance as a weapon - and everyone has a different weapon - it makes dance really interesting.

  Jon M. Chu

  Interesting, Different, Weapons

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• Well, I certainly was exposed to and learned to appreciate the work of great directors early on. As a kid, my mother used to take me to see really interesting arty films in Los Angeles.

  Jodie Foster

  Mother, Kids, Appreciate

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• If you're working with someone who you get on with and you're supposed to hate them on the screen, then you get this playful challenge thing where you're trying to one-up each other and that's really interesting. Sometimes it can become like tennis. The harder you hit the ball back, then the harder the hit it back to you.

  Joseph Morgan

  Hate, Interesting, Tennis

  "Exclusive: Joseph Morgan Talks THE VAMPIRE DIARIES and IMMORTALS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 9, 2011.

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• When the reader and one narrator know something the other narrator does not, the opportunities for suspense and plot development and the shifting of reader sympathies get really interesting.

  Sara Zarr

  Opportunity, Interesting, Suspense

  "Teen book club: Cat Clarke interviews Sara Zarr". Interview with Cat Clarke, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2012.

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• Once I decide to take on a role it's because I find that guy to be really interesting to watch and very compelling to play. And from that point on I can no longer judge him. I can only take on his point of view in order to play him effectively. And his point of view is often not mine.

  Ronald Perelman

  Play, Views, Order

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• There are several really interesting clocks in Berlin.

  Jim Sanborn

  Interesting, Berlin, Clock

  "Sculptor Offers Another Clue in 24-Year-Old Mystery at C.I.A." by John Schwartz, www.nytimes.com. November 20, 2014.

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• Honesty is not necessarily interesting. I don't want to hear about your dreams or your acid trips, probably unless you make them really interesting.

  Anne Lamott

  Dream, Honesty, Interesting

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. April 6, 2010.

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• Nutrition science is where surgery was in about 1650, you know, really interesting and promising, but would you want to have them operate on you yet? I don't think so.

  Michael Pollan

  Thinking, Interesting, Want

  "In Defense of Food: Author, Journalist Michael Pollan on Nutrition, Food Science and the American Diet". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. February 13, 2008.

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