Sentences with phrase «really in a former life»

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Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, says the benefit that he drew from having an executive coach was having someone in his life to say, «Is that what you really meant?»

Maybe it's because, in my former life working in magazine publishing, I spent many hours considering the Best Web Headline, but I have a way of Internet searching that calls up obscure travel listicles that are, surprisingly, really helpful.

But since arriving in Manchester, the former Arsenal star hasn't really lived up to expectation, why is this?

In honesty, I would not write a memoir of my sexual reawakening post-divorce (yes, I had that, too, even though my former husband and I had a happy and active sex life right until the end) because I don't think my kids, at 20 and 23, want to know too much (or anything, really) about my sex life.

«It was an uphill battle when he was first nominated, and what really cinched the deal was the split within the Republican Party,» said John Sullivan, a former mayor of Oswego who considered a run in 2009 and said he will consider it again, despite living just outside the district.

What really impressed Davis about Rice was her willingness to question why former Gov. Eliot Spitzer, to whom Davis has been linked in her past life as a booker of prostitutes, wasn't prosecuted for his crimes.

As Jimmy notes, Skelos is very interested is avoiding the so - called 31 - 31 scenario — a nightmare situation we all lived through in the summer of 2009, thanks to former Sens. Hiram Monserrate and Pedro Espada Jr., and would really rather not repeat, thank you very much.

Ragone, who worked for former speaker Peter Vallone in the City Council and for Andrew Cuomo before he became governor, described the meetings in a phone interview as a chance to «catch up on our personal lives» and to «just really talk shop.»

A former sales leader for a Fortune 500 company, she inspires and educates women to live the lives they imagined by tuning in to their authentic power and unlocking the confidence to get what they really, really want.

We never learn anything about Harry's past as a husband and father, and intuit only a few traces of his background as a cop and a former alcoholic, but we discover a great deal about his emotional life in relation to his friends and former colleagues, which is all the film really cares about.

As Jack, an dying ex-hippie and environmentalist living in isolation with a daughter (Camilla Belle) who's developed a secret, incestuous love for him, Day - Lewis exudes both a gentleness and a sense of loss, speaking of a former commune with a wistfulness that suggests someone who never really gave up the dream of the «60s even as he watched it die.

In a droll exchange with his former bandmate Ivan Schrank, played by Rhys Ifans, Schrank recalls the old adage «Youth is wasted on the young», to which Greenberg replies, «I'd go further, I'd go life is wasted on... people» — one of the few really funny lines in the film, basically summing up the message of the moviIn a droll exchange with his former bandmate Ivan Schrank, played by Rhys Ifans, Schrank recalls the old adage «Youth is wasted on the young», to which Greenberg replies, «I'd go further, I'd go life is wasted on... people» — one of the few really funny lines in the film, basically summing up the message of the moviin the film, basically summing up the message of the movie.

Together virtually 24/7, George and Ira prove to be good for each other and gradually bond, with the former grudgingly showing his protégé how to hold an audience in the palm of his hand, while the latter helps his boss appreciate what really matters in life.

«What really excites me about this project is that it's in a former Olympic venue, and via live stream, 2000 children will be banging the drum for street children's rights by playing music created by former street children at the Street Child Games!»

They followed me into the games and told all the other players to turn me in because they didn't want to see that crap or their kids to see that crap,» the former account holder said, «As if Xbox Live is really appropriate for kids anyways!

But another excerpt from the movie is just as revealing about what it really means to be truly resilient — and this one comes from a former teacher turned urban farmer who is making a living from the land on less than half - an - acre of abandoned inner city real estate.We have, of course, covered the urban farming scene in Detroit many times over here on TreeHugger.

It was really designed as way for transplants — a Red Sox fan living in Seattle, for example — to watch their former home teams.

For me (a former and still sometimes crazy), I have started putting decorating / project concerns into 2 categories: 1) Knee jerk, that is not right, there's something really WRONG and 2) That is not what I had in mind, but I know there are several ways to get the look I want so I know I need to live with it for a while then decide.

«Its unique proportions make The Slim House a really rare find and one of just a handful in London,» explains Jasper Colliver, head of Savills Wandsworth, «Having been extended by its former owners, the property has been cleverly designed with well - placed storage and bespoke fittings to maximise the 1,058 square feet of living accommodation.»

Highlights included former Doctor Sylvester McCoy brushing past us as we walked in, all the wild costumes worn by the attendees, the Q&A session with Peter Capaldi (particularly the moment when a 5 - year - old was given the mike and asked when he was going to regenerate... the insinuation being he hoped it would be REALLY soon...), the Steampunk Tardis girl who won the costume competition and seeing how teeny tiny Strax is in real life.