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I didn't know anything about acting, I didn't know anything about theater, but I was just an exceptional student at high school. I wanted to play ball; I'm going after a basketball scholarship and be a doctor. I got injured and my marks began to drop. Louis Gossett, Jr.
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We started slowly, but then began to put things together. We were 3-9 to begin the year, but we have gone 9-4 the rest of the way. Brian Keith
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We stopped the rescue operation around 11 o'clock (Thursday) night, ... As the tide came in, the structure began to move, and other parts began to collapse again. We made the decision to pull our divers out. John Timoney
began dropping garbage gently goods nice people
We started from scratch. Immediately people began dropping things off - and they were nice things. Our goods are gently used. We are not a junkyard or garbage drop.
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When I was at graduate school in London, I began working at NBC News, which had a thriving documentary unit. Leslie Cockburn
began coast government island lifetime majority sort spent war
Sri Lanka is an island off the coast of India. There's two ethnicities there; one the Sinhalese, which is the majority and the government, and the minority, who are the Tamils. That's where I'm from. And my lifetime sort of began there; I spent 10 years, and I was there during when the war started and fled as a refugee to England.
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Writing 'Native Guard,' I didn't know I was working on a single book. I began writing that book because I was interested in the lesser-known history of these black soldiers stationed off the coast of my hometown. Natasha Trethewey
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I was commissioned in 2003 to create an original show, and began developing 'Upwake.' 'Upwake' tells the story of Zero, a modern-day business man, going to work with his life in a suitcase, stuck between dream and reality and not able to decipher the two. I wanted 'Upwake' to have the same audiovisual qualities as a movie would.
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While I was writing 'Stick Out Your Tongue' in Beijing, the police began knocking on my door again. As soon as I finished the book, I moved to Hong Kong so that I could work undisturbed on my next novel. Ma Jian
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We've won games that way. We've shot poorly and then got on the offensive boards and played defense. They were just too good. Jay Wright
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We struggled on offense, but we kept playing defense and kept getting stops. I thought we controlled the boards and our defense was good tonight.
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We have to get to the offensive glass. We didn't crash the boards when we should have. We settled for jumpers instead of getting to the line. Becky Hammon
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I thought about making biscuits, but there seemed to be more than enough calories on board. Charlaine Harris
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A board member should be perfectly willing to leave at any time and willing to make the tough calls. Charlie Munger
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We're getting boards and picking up loose balls. We've been playing well of late. You always hope to be peaking at this stage of the season.
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We know Gary will go to the boards and will press. We've got to turn it into our style of game and get out and run.
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We're not changing anything. I learned that years ago. The key always for us is can we stop their inside people and get some boards and kick it out? By the looks of it, they'll transition, and so will we.
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(LSU) coach (Pokey Chatman) challenged me in the locker room at halftime to get as many boards as possible. I just picked up my energy in the second half. Sylvia Fowles
corporate
[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential. Alan Arkin
corporate
I won't be making any friends in the corporate suites. Carl Hiaasen
corporate report
We want to see a prosecution of corporate manslaughter. This report has re-opened that possibility.
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What the stock market is telling you is that the economy and corporate profits are going to recover sooner than thought.
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We want his next fight to be in Little Rock, but it would have to make economic sense to us. I need to get a sense of the corporate reaction that, frankly, we haven't seen for the smaller fights in Little Rock. We need a gate that's competitive with Vegas.
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What we're seeing today and what we have been seeing for the last week is a drying up of sentiment as investors wait for some definitive resolution of world events and some new corporate catalysts.
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We're focusing much too much on what's moving, which at the margin are the kind of that are negative for stocks and forgetting what's really crucial here. The fact is we are in an excess supply of money relative to the needs of the economy and corporate earnings growth will in fact be quite good in the third quarter. Ron Hill
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Three things out there: very, very positive liquidity, a growing economy, and rising corporate profits. Put those three things together stock prices have only one way to go and that's up.
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We knew this would be an uphill struggle to find corporate sponsors in so short a time frame.
museum people time
The other people in the museum at the time were very respectful. No one approached them on their own.
museums absorbing
Living is like tearing through a museum. Audrey Hepburn
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It is as much the conversations between objects as between us and objects that make museums so valuable. Antony Gormley
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Pele should go back to the museum. Diego Maradona
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The earth is a museum of divine intent. Bill McKibben
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New Rule: Since our new national position on science is, "Screw it, we prefer witchcraft," let's not just retire the Space Shuttle Atlantis. Let's drive it to one of the five stupidest States and have the locals beat it with sticks. Putting it in a museum is too dangerous. Someone could steal it, fly it into space and notice we revolve around the sun. Bill Maher
museums stories care
Every time I was with Sammy [Davis Jr.] it was like going to the show business museum because the stories were so extraordinary, and I didn't care if they were true or not after a while. ... I don't know if he really got high with Humphrey Bogart or not. It didn't matter because he was painting these fantastic pictures. Billy Crystal
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It's a lovely experience walking around a museum by yourself. Brad Pitt
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Stealing, of course, is a crime, and a very impolite thing to do. But like most impolite things, it is excusable under certain circumstances. Stealing is not excusable if, for instance, you are in a museum and you decide that a certain painting would look better in your house, and you simply grab the painting and take it there. But if you were very, very hungry, and you had no way of obtaining money, it would be excusable to grab the painting, take it to your house, and eat it. Daniel Handler
people may medical
It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander. Charles Caleb Colton
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A multitude of people and yet solitude. Charles Dickens
people governing whole
My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.
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Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.
people words-of-wisdom want
Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.
people next cleanliness
Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.
people scary alive
I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.
people enemy
Some people are nobody's enemies but their own
people romance wonder-woman
Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows? Charles Soule
profession
There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman. Edith Stein
profession
So I'm in quite the wrong profession obviously. Dirk Bogarde
profession respect
I learned, especially from my mother, to respect the profession and take it seriously, but not take yourself too seriously. Campbell Scott
profession work
My mother always said I should have a back-up profession if the acting doesn't work out. Gina Bellman
profession vocation
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness Georges Simenon
profession
Every professional was once an amateur. Alexander Pope
profession
I never thought of politics as a profession. George Papandreou
professional-work
Amateurs hope. Professional work. Garson Kanin
professional-work
The anateur works until they get something right. The professional works until they can't go wrong. Julie Andrews