I'd read 'Paradise Lost' as an undergrad at university but remembered little about it. No, not true: I remembered few details, but carried with me with the persuasive arguments and pitiable dilemma of its arguable protagonist, Satan.
I majored in screenwriting and playwriting in school - and wanted to make films as a career. But when I directed my first short in college - which was called 'Extras' - I lost thousands of dollars and made an unsatisfying and incomplete film.
Modi has misused institutions like the ED, Intelligence Bureau, CBI, RBI and National Statistical Commission for political gains and harassing his political opponents. Modi lost his credibility by all these acts.
I am dying not just to attempt to end the barbarity of H-blocks or to gain the rightful recognition of political prisoners, but primarily because what is lost here is lost for the Republic.
Hinkley will be a ghost town. It will be another town lost in America due to pollution.
The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.
If you look at yourself as a star, you've already lost something in the portrayal of any human being.
I prank my manager. I tell him I've lost my passport, or I've lost my case, or I hide his case. He is so gullible, he is the most gullible person ever.
Is there something we have forgotten? Some precious thing we have lost, wandering in strange lands?
Anybody who knows about having a premature baby, it's horrific. He was part of a twin, and I lost his sister.
In my lifetime, we have lost a President, a Civil Rights leader and a Presidential candidate - all to gun violence.
I've lost count of the times I've been asked to 'be' Malcolm Tucker: to go on a political program on television, presumably in order to be the character and give opinions as him.
Health IT helps save lives now lost due to preventable medical errors, from incorrect diagnoses and needless infections to drug mix-ups and surgical mishaps.
Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
Once you've lost your privacy, you realize you've lost an extremely valuable thing.
I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.
Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.
As music migrates into our iPods, CD collections require less and less room, residing in our heads rather than resounding off the walls. The protracted labor of amassing a personal music library has lost its detective zeal.
Everything that we used to think got taught at home now seemingly has to be taught in the public school system, and something is going to get lost in the process.
I purposely lost a fight to Billy Fox because they promised me that I would get a shot to fight for the title if I did.