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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
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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
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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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The other thing is, I'm one of the handful of people they have that actually knows how to run something, that's an experienced administrator. Donna Shalala
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The point is to keep these kids safe. Unfortunately, there's always a handful of students drinking, and that makes it hard for everyone. We don't want something terrible to happen.
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We're honored that we played well enough to get to this point. The thing that we'll look at is that there's only a handful of teams that have been able to win back-to-back championships. I think that will weigh heavily on our mind.
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Since it's actually a handful of nuts with no real resources at their command, it's a little hard to see why such imagery is appropriate.
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Here it is, 2011, and I feel zero shame when I tell you I would like to marry my smartphone. It is a handful of pure delight. Lynn Coady
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Only a handful said they didn't like what we were doing.
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Only a handful of states have used this money for its intended purpose.
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From a scientific standpoint, we are incredibly unique. There's only a handful of places, globally, that can do research like we do.
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I always hear it. I just liked the way it set up. They said Jimmy is losing a step that he can't do it anymore. It's been the story of my career. It's always been people saying I couldn't do it. I knew I could do it. You knew I could do it. There's always a handful of people. Jimmy Smith
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You have to turn a blind eye to politics in nearly all Westerns. Clive Sinclair
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Nearly all our blokes are locals, but a lot of them work out of town during the week, Gary Roberts
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There are people who you see on screen and think, 'Wow, that's a slim person,' and in the flesh they look nearly dead. Romola Garai
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For rain fans, it's going to be a nearly perfect day.
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Kendra stepped up and played a solid game, nearly getting a double-double.
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To date, every American citizen has nearly $27,000 in public debt riding on our backs. Paul Gillmor
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What you do is not nearly as important as who you are.
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It is so cold out there, my head nearly fell off. Mark McKinney
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I think it's nearly impossible to write something fictional without having it be about yourself in some way or another. Jami Attenberg
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I spend a lot of time visiting local organisations. Diane Abbott
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Visiting Lucerne is like going to Disneyland: You can't imagine that it is real because it looks like a movie lot. Brad Thor
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Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words. Arthur Bryant
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In some articles written about me, writers have said I'm a link between the old and the new, and I think, in a certain sense, that's legitimate. Robert Klein
writers
There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium. Brian K. Vaughan
writers
Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness. Charlaine Harris
writers
Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre. Sara Sheridan
writers
Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained. Aminatta Forna
writers
Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films. Claire Tomalin
writers
If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works. John Dos Passos
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Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it. Jean Paul