James McAvoy

I think my recognizability ebbs and flows. I don't lead a particularly celebrity lifestyle or anything like that. I don't go to showbiz parties or red-carpet events, so it all depends on whether I've got a film out. I've not been very visible in the last year or so and as a result hardly anyone stops me in the street.

Scottish Actor

Helen Hunt

I know you're always supposed to want more of everything. But in truth, I'm having a nice ebb and flow of being in my daughter's life every day and getting to keep my work life alive. I'm not nominated for ten thousand everythings every minute, but I am acting and telling stories I love.

American Actress

Lisa Unger

Of course, like all organic processes, there is an ebb and a flow to writing. One does not exist without the other. The writer needs to be vigilant in protecting both, confident in the knowledge that the village will be there when we choose, finally, to open the door.

American Author

Hugh Jackman

I have a terrific marriage, but unlike a lot of relationships where they ebb and flow, no matter what happens you fall deeper and deeper in love every day. It's kind of the best thing that can happen to you. It's thrilling.

Australian Actor

Ian Hislop

You have a huge amount of confidence when you're younger, which slowly ebbs away for the rest of your life. You think: 'No problem. I can do that. Why shouldn't I do it?

Welsh Editor

Laura Dern

For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.

Uma Thurman

There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.

Julie Foudy

The ebb and flow of daily life can lead to wonderful highs, crushing lows, and everything in between.

American Athlete

Brad Feld

While I live a busy life, the pace ebbs and flows.

American Businessman

Robin Wright

A great life is to be able to ebb and flow.

Use 'ebb' to describe the tide specifically retreating or moving away from the shore.

Tide Context

'Ebb' often evokes imagery of slowly receding water, useful in creative writing.

Visual Imagery

'Ebb' implies a slow and gradual decrease, rather than a sudden drop.

Gradual Change

'Ebb' may depict a diminishing emotion or interest, conveying subtle feelings.

Emotional Nuance

Use 'ebb' metaphorically to describe a decline in situations or phenomena beyond sea contexts.

Metaphorical Use

'Ebb' often has a negative connotation, associated with deterioration or decay.

Negative Connotation

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 that I was trying to solve in my mind. That the ocean is this amazing metaphor for life, when you think about it. You are on this constantly moving playing field. You know, the winds, tides, currents are always changing. Tides go in, goes out, there's an ebb and a flow to everything.

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 to see how they respond to the ebb and flow of nutrition throughout their habitat. Now, instead of ordinary, static habitat maps, these dynamic, time-lapse habitat maps could be used for grizzly bear conservation in a number of ways. First, they help calculate the carrying capacity

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 I predate all of that. I predate so much and I've been through ebbs and flows and I've been through good and bad times, and still I absolutely love being a police officer. I love being a police officer because it's always been a calling for me and never a job.

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 we have trouble sleeping. Or it's the amygdala, the emotional center of the brain, close to the hippocampus, the memory center of the brain. When estrogen levels ebb in these regions, we start getting mood swings perhaps and forget things.

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 what's going on around them being active in a cause has also grown as a primary source of entertainment with this group part of what they do and part of how they spend their time as we look at the ebb and flow of activity deeper and

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 the ebbs and flows of this ever-shifting landscape. But lately, an abundance of intense cyclones have caused frequent flooding that impedes farming and fishing. These floods also erode the coastline,

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