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adapted book call chinese help legend magic named picture plato prodigy
The first book I could call mine, my first book, was a picture book, 'The Magic Monkey' - it was adapted from an old Chinese legend by a thirteen-year-old prodigy named Plato Chan with the help of his sister. Nick Flynn
adapted chinese design interior
Volvo has one weakness, and that is in the interior design. They have not adapted to the Chinese people's perception of luxury when it comes to the interior design, and this has to be addressed. Li Shufu
adapted add adding apartment architecture built country deal developing easily estate great industry information local microsoft needs seeing services ship software specific sure using web
What we're seeing is a great deal of customization on country and industry levels. When Microsoft was developing its CRM, it made sure that it was built on a Web services architecture so that it can be easily adapted to specific local needs and requirements. We don't ship an out-of-the-box, property-management application, for instance, but those in real estate using the software can easily add apartment information without adding programming code.
adapted blood complex feeding flea incredibly sum tiniest
We are more than the sum of our biochemical functions. Even the tiniest flea is an incredibly complex living creature, with mouth-parts adapted to feeding on the blood of your cat or dog. Robert Lanza
adapted again fights-and-fighting good meaning picked turned worker
Shamrock started out as a pro-wrestler years before he got into fighting. When he started with WWE he picked it up again very fast. He actually turned into a really good worker and adapted to the WWE style, meaning he did more than just shoot-style stuff.
adapted basically deal
We have basically plagiarized the Wal-Mart deal and adapted it for Blair.
adapted believe classic collection craftsman design features form outdoor
The Craftsman Collection features an iconic, mission-style design. With Craftsman, we believe we have successfully adapted this classic American form for the new American outdoor room. John Baker
adapted companies costs cutting demand extremely margins mexican picks positive second softer
Many Mexican companies have adapted to softer demand by cutting costs and this will be extremely positive for margins once demand picks up in the second half, as we expect.
adapted based dig elderly land mystery novel starts
'Shetland' is adapted from the novel 'Red Bones.' The book is based around an archaeological dig, and the mystery starts with the murder of the elderly woman who crofts the land where the dig is happening.
aspects point sure thoughtful trip
The point here is that the (US) administration has been very thoughtful in making sure that all aspects of the trip go well,
aspects both counts giving hits hitters mental pitchers runner second true
We have to get better in the mental aspects of the game, ... That's true for both the pitchers and hitters. The pitchers can't be giving up hits on 0-2 counts like we have, and the hitters have to find a way to get the runner over when he's on second with no outs.
aspects common efforts talented towards
When you're writing, it's all up to you, and you don't have to make any compromises. And when you're directing, there's this intense pleasure you get from working with all these really talented people, and pooling the efforts towards a common goal. I like all the aspects of film-making. Henry Selick
aspects ball either kicked knocked performed poorly
We were awful. We performed poorly in all aspects of the game. It was all about silencing the crowd. But we either kicked poorly or knocked the ball on.
aspects associated exposed happen including manner perceived
When we are exposed to a real or perceived threatening situation, powerful things happen in the brain to memorialize aspects of the event, including all manner of associated circumstances like where, when and how it occurred. David Perlmutter
aspects brain exactly found group kidney received
We found that on I.Q. and other aspects of brain function, as well as kidney function, the group that received the mercury-based amalgam was exactly the same as those that received a composite.
aspects depend game job
We can depend on so many different people. We've got so many different aspects of our game that we can go to and get the job done if one of us has an off night.
aspects bring few focus happened house immediate people positive students true university
Very few people bring up the University House anymore. This is especially true for students who are not from the immediate area. We focus on the positive aspects of Eastern, not something that happened two or more years ago.
aspects fail further
We fail to see why further investigation of these aspects is required.
careers chinese connected
I had always thought that I would do something that was connected to music as a career, or possibly Chinese, which was my major. Charles Soule
careers might brilliant
Those of you who are not aware of my brilliant career as a stand up comic, I'm not aware of it either so we might well wonder what we're doing here. Alan Rickman
careers long way
In many ways, my entire graphic novel career was a long diversion. Originally, all I wanted to do was to be an underground cartoonist and maybe bring out a groovy underground mag. Alan Moore
careers long people
During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people's creations. Alan Bradley
careers vision acting
Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you're going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen. Al Pacino
careers laughing three
Al and Tommy and I sharing the biggest laugh because it was predicted by everything we did in the first three or four records in my career. It was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road. Al Jarreau
career choose exposure females
We want them to have exposure to females who have a career and a family. We want to let them know that you don't have to choose one or the other. Linda Gray
careers theater deeper
I really do love the theater and as you get deeper into your career, it gets harder to carve out the time to do theater. Chris Carmack
careers made wanted
I always knew I wanted to have a good career, so I made it happen. Chord Overstreet
formula helps mind playing time
I enjoy playing golf, but no, I don't think golf helps driving. It does take my mind away from driving, though; every time I play golf, I don't think about Formula 1. Heikki Kovalainen
formulate laboratory meeting plan results test
We're meeting to go over laboratory test results and formulate a plan for what we're going to do about this.
formulate individual plans pull
We're going to formulate individual plans for every player. We'll pull back when a player's fatigued.
formula moment sure
Let's put it this way: I am not even sure at the moment we will be in Formula One in 2008. Flavio Briatore
formula note
There is no formula to it. Writing every song is a little journey. The first note has to lift you. Enya
formula lifetime loss player players replicate three whether
What we have to try to do is find a way to replicate that. Whether that's through one player, two players or even three players, we have to try to find a formula for making up for a loss of a player who is a once in a lifetime player. Stephen Fleming
formula nobel
There is no magical formula for winning a Nobel Prize.
formula future openly save trade turkey
Openly speaking, the only formula that will save Greece's future is more trade with Turkey and more investment with Turkey. Ali Babacan
formula second third three
If someone said to me that you can have three wishes, my first would have been to get into racing, my second to be in Formula 1, my third to drive for Ferrari. Gilles Villeneuve
fortunate happy hard last learned perfect reflection rest seniors success
We've all just learned so much from (Pearl), and we're a reflection of him on the court. He's working just as hard as we are on the sidelines, and we're just very fortunate to have him as well as the rest of his staff. It really has become a perfect fit, and I'm very happy for the seniors that they're able to have this success under him in their last year.
fortunate guard hold physical second struggled
We struggled to guard Yao in the first half, but we made some adjustments and were much more physical in the second half. We were fortunate enough to hold him down then. Avery Johnson
fortunate incredibly
We're incredibly fortunate (to still be playing), and we're going to make the most of it. Geno Auriemma
fortunate found love man men
When you say that I can go and make a movie, I feel like I'm one of the most fortunate men. I feel myself to be a fortunate man that I found something to do that I really love. Michael Mann
fortunate march might
We're going to see where we're at on March 4. The unfortunate thing is we might not see what we want to see, and the fortunate thing is at least it ain't May 4.
fortunate games good kept point
When we first left, I think the most important thing was to come back and play well, like, 'You should have kept me around,' or 'You should have re-signed me. After that, it's just a point where you want to win, and we were fortunate enough to get the win, but also play pretty good games individually. Antawn Jamison
fortunate people
We're fortunate to have two people like that,
fortunate hope horses race
We're fortunate to have two horses in the race and we hope they live up to their billing.
fortunate girls kids rest
We're fortunate to have so much depth. We wanted to rest some of the varsity kids and let the JV girls show what they could do.
granted
I never take that for granted, but I'm always very aware that I'm one person and I can't wear everything. Charlize Theron
granted harvest
It is not always granted to the sower to see the harvest. Albert Schweitzer
granted i-have-learned folly
I have learned yet again (this has been going on all my life) what folly it is to take any thing for granted without examining it skeptically. Jane Jacobs
granted grew life matured obviously people sort taken telling wanting wonderful
I was very small, about 3 or 4 I think, and just wanted to be the people on telly telling these wonderful stories. Obviously the idea grew and matured with me but I can't ever remember wanting to do anything else. I've just sort of taken it for granted all my life that that was what I would do. David Tennant
granted take-nothing-for-granted ifs
If somebody knew every time they did something it was going to be a hit there would never be any failures. Sadly, that's not how it works. You take nothing for granted. Adam Rayner
granted none
None of this has been granted for us yet to use.
granted local number officials state taking
What we see is the state taking over a number of responsibilities that have been granted not only to the local officials but local residents through the legislative process.
granted taken
Here, it's taken for granted ? antibiotics, drainage equipment. There, as a surgeon, we have to use the basics.
granted needs whatever
We take for granted now what he does. He does whatever he needs to do to win. Mack Brown
happiness delight tricks
Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes. Charles Dickens
happiness kings ambition
If kings would only determine not to extend their dominions until they had filled them with happiness, they would find the smallest territories too large, but the longest life too short for the full accomplishment of so grand and so noble an ambition. Charles Caleb Colton
happiness wine emotional
We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine, but if defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
happiness poverty bread
To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
happiness clouds broken
What is earthly happiness? that phantom of which we hear so much, and see so little; whose promises are constantly given and constantly broken, but as constantly believed; that cheats us with the sound instead of the substance, and with the blossom instead of the fruit. Like Juno, she is a goddess in pursuit, but a cloud in possession.
happiness mistake ambition
Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end.
happiness light sun
Happiness is that single and glorious thing which is the very light and sun of the whole animated universe; and where she is not it were better that nothing should be.
happiness men views
Happiness is much more equally divided than some of us imagine. One man shall possess most of the materials, but little of the thing; another may possess much of the thing, but very few of the material. In this particular view of it, happiness had been beautifully compared to the man in the desert--he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack.
happiness mind faces
Our minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the same road.
hard-times roots facts
Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.
hard-times facts want
Now, what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life.
hard-work easy-work problem
Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve. Alan Perlis
hard-work jealous thinking
I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success. I work very hard and they don't appreciate that. Alain Prost
hard-work acting joyful
Acting is hard work. At times, it's very energizing and enervating. It's childish. It's also responsible. It's illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It's bizarre, diabolical. It's exciting.
hard-work actors today
I'm glad that I'm being acclaimed as an actor. Today, when my hard work has paid off I can chill out about it. Akshay Kumar
hard-work mind lasts
The title always comes last. What I really work hard on is the beginning. Where do you begin? In what tone do you begin? I almost have to have a scene in my mind. David McCullough
hard-work mean pursuit-of-happiness
When the founders wrote about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, they didn't mean longer vacations and more comfortable hammocks. They meant the pursuit of learning. The pursuit of improvement and excellence. In hard work is happiness.
hard-work thinking focus
Hail, Caesar! is about, in my opinion - I love that movie - but I think it's about the idea that as glamorous as the business is, and for as much hoopla that surrounds moviemaking, ultimately it's just a job. If you focus on it, you can do it really well, and it takes a lot of hard work. David Krumholtz
nature giving natural
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.
nature humility pride
We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.
nature men self
If Natur has gifted a man with powers of argeyment, a man has a right to make the best of 'em, and has not a right to stand on false delicacy, and deny that he is so gifted; for that is a turning of his back on Natur, a flouting of her, a slighting of her precious caskets, and a proving of one's self to be a swine that isn't worth her scattering pearls before.
nature moon shining
When the moon shines very brilliantly, a solitude and stillness seem to proceed from her that influence even crowded places full of life.
nature dark moon
The earth covered with a sable pall as for the burial of yesterday; the clumps of dark trees, its giant plumes of funeral feathers, waving sadly to and fro: all hushed, all noiseless, and in deep repose, save the swift clouds that skim across the moon, and the cautious wind, as, creeping after them upon the ground, it stops to listen, and goes rustling on, and stops again, and follows, like a savage on the trail.
nature wall dark
A moment, and its glory was no more. The sun went down beneath the long dark lines of hill and cloud which piled up in the west an airy city, wall heaped on wall, and battlement on battlement; the light was all withdrawn; the shining church turned cold and dark; the stream forgot to smile; the birds were silent; and the gloom of winter dwelt on everything.
nature morning fall
It was a cold hard easterly morning when he latched the garden gate and turned away. The light snowfall which had feathered his schoolroom windows on the Thursday, still lingered in the air, and was falling white, while the wind blew black.
nature dark winter
The white face of the winter day came sluggishly on, veiled in a frosty mist; and the shadowy ships in the river slowly changed to black substances; and the sun, blood-red on the eastern marshes behind dark masts and yards, seemed filled with the ruins of a forest it had set on fire.
nature wall rain
Not only is the day waning, but the year. The low sun is fiery and yet cold behind the monastery ruin, and the Virginia creeper on the Cathedral wall has showered half its deep-red leaves down on the pavement. There has been rain this afternoon, and a wintry shudder goes among the little pools on the cracked, uneven flag-stones, and through the giant elm-trees as they shed a gust of tears.
near nowhere pleased
We are pleased with our progress, but we are nowhere near where we want to be yet.
near nowhere ought
We've accomplished what we've wanted to accomplish, record-wise. But we're nowhere near where we should be or where we ought to be. Rick Pitino
near puncture
We started as if we were on a qualifying lap, got a puncture near the end but we got it home, Eddie Jordan
near stage
We are getting near to the stage where hardball will be played. Seamus Mallon
near obviously
We're getting near the end of the process, but obviously it is not over yet,
near standing trash
Yes, he was standing near the trash can. James Williams
near quickly strange time
I write in a very strange way. Things are very fragmentary for a very long time, and then they come together very quickly near the end of the process. Todd Rundgren
near park popular problem seems water work
Sheldon Park is a little too popular with the geese. KES isn't near water so we don't have the same problem and it seems to work out better for everyone.
nearest number people water
We have a number of people we just dispatched all day long to go to the nearest place where the water is problematic.
successful mislead-us watches
Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.
success pride winning
To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us.
success achievement conceit
Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit.
success hate men
For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
success kissing hands
To judge by the event is an error all commit: for in every instance courage, if crowned with success, is heroism; if clouded by defeat, temerity. When Nelson fought his battle in the Sound, it was the result alone that decided whether he was to kiss a hand at court or a rod at a court-martial.
success congratulations adversity
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
success achievement silence
Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.
successful causes flourishing
The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes. Charles Sturt
success eggs laziness
The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already. Charles Spurgeon
takes vote yes
When you vote yes or no, ... it takes you out of the negotiations, and I don't ever want to be out of the game.
takes truth
We're going to go where the truth takes us.
takes
We're going to do the things that it takes to manufacture those runs.
takes
We're just not doing the things it takes to win.
takes walk
We know what it takes to get them satisfied. They didn't just walk up and give us a jackpot. It's not like that.
takes
Sexy boxing is something that takes away from the brutality of boxing.
takes time
Smelling a crayon takes you right back to childhood. When I need to go back in time, I put it under my nose and take another hit. Randy Pausch
takes timing week
Timing matters. It typically takes a week or so, but after the sessions begin, it could take longer.
takes time
We can't express ourselves always at the time we should. Sometimes it takes time.
work quality may
Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work. Alan Watts
work apology giving
Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology. Alan Clark
work mean doing-nothing
If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means. Alan Bennett
work sleep thinking
A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves. Alan Ayckbourn
work play able
You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way. Al Kaline
work people kind
Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable. Akio Morita
workout training cardio
I do a dance-based cardio workout infused with circuit training, and emphasizing strength and alignment. Chloe Sevigny
work-out effort feels
If I put forth a legitimate effort, then I feel like, if that doesn't work out, that's all I can do. Dave Chappelle
work-out levels mail
I always take a relationship to the next level. If that works out, I take it to the next level after that, until I finally reach that level when it becomes absolutely necessary for me to leave.