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• It was fantastic to be able to have my kids on set. Dash, my eldest son, who’s not quite five, was into knights and his godmother had given him a plastic Marks & Spencer knights’ outfit and [first assistant director] Tommy Gormley said that he could stand to protect me during the scene where Clive [Owen] is talking about the immensity of sitting on the throne. I’m actually looking through an archway at my son standing in his knights’ costume protecting me!

  Cate Blanchett

  Kids, Son, Knights

  "Elizabeth: The Golden Age - Cate Blanchett interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The novel is final form; it's the ultimate individual final form. Television and motion pictures never get there. You'd be fabulous to think that something you write is even going to be filmed. I give it the best shot of which I'm capable. But it's more a payday for me. And if I didn't have alimony and the full-time assistant.

  James Ellroy

  Writing, Thinking, Giving

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 9, 2014.

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• Once I had a potentially heart attack-inducing eight double espressos in one day. I think my assistant secretly swaps my coffees for decaf as she doesn't want me to die of caffeine overdose.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Coffee, Heart, Thinking

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I'm husband hunting. Now, I know all the men are going to be gay but at this point, I need a new gay husband. Or, a new lesbian assistant. If you want something done, tell a lesbian and the she'll chop down a tree. Something like that.

  Judy Tenuta

  Husband, Gay, Men

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I hate the word assistant. No one works for me. I work with everyone because I couldn't do anything without the people that I work with.

  Sandra Bullock

  Hate, People, I Hate

  "Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds Discuss 'The Proposal'". Interview with Rebecca Murray, www.thoughtco.com. February 25, 2014.

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• In the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the army. Having completed my studies there, I was duly attached to the Fifth Northumberland Fusiliers as Assistant Surgeon.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Book, Army, Doctors

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “A Study in Scarlet”, Arthur Conan Doyle

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• He [Jock Stein] phoned and asked me to come over and see him one night Hibs were playing at home to Aberdeen. You know Im coming as manager, he said, and I know youll be disappointed. But I want to reciprocate for you making me your deputy by asking you to become my assistant.

  Sean Fallon

  Home, Night, Asking

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• You have to make an effort to be in an unprotected environment because everyone thinks you're a completely incapable idiot who couldn't possibly brush his teeth without an assistant. You have to make an effort in order to be able to actually experience the country that you're in.

  Christian Bale

  Country, Thinking, Order

  "Christian Bale May Kill Someone Yet". Interview with John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. November 15, 2010.

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• Being a cab river is not unlike being a magician--minus the top hat, the cape, the rabbit, an the gorgeous assistant. But you do have an audience.

  Gary Reilly

  Rivers, Rabbits, Capes

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• Scientists are still trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn't be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Trying, Moral, Scientist

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• People over the age of thirty were born before the digital revolution really started. We've learned to use digital technology-laptops, cameras, personal digital assistants, the Internet-as adults, and it has been something like learning a foreign language. Most of us are okay, and some are even expert. We do e-mails and PowerPoint, surf the Internet, and feel we're at the cutting edge. But compared to most people under thirty and certainly under twenty, we are fumbling amateurs. People of that age were born after the digital revolution began. They learned to speak digital as a mother tongue.

  Ken Robinson

  Mother, Cutting, Technology

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• We talked about it. An assistant coach suggested fouling, but I rejected it because I was afraid we'd foul them shooting and get beat that way. Hindsight couldn't have been worse than what happened to us.

  John Whisenant

  Rejection, Shooting, Way

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• I've been an assistant for seven years now and I haven't had one head coaching interview. I'm doing something wrong.

  Patrick Ewing

  Years, Coaching, Interviews

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• I felt the exact same way.But if it helps,you look much cuter freaking out than I ever did." I peeked out through my hands."But what if I don't get in?" He wrapped his arms around me. "No more worrying about it.You'll get in." "Good.Someone needs to keep an eye on you and that dirty little dyrad of a lab assistant." He laughed,squeezing me until I couldn't breathe. "Why would I ever want a lusty tree nymph when I could have a hyperventilating Evie?

  Kiersten White

  Dirty, Eye, Nymphs

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• Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Friendship, Vices

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• Use video to train assistants you'll be surprised how quickly they learn.

  Andrew Mayne

  Video, Use, Train

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• Bobby Tom: You're supposed to be my assistant, not a baby-sitter! Gracie: One and the same.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Baby, Supposed To Be, Toms

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• Even now, she wished she could write a note, push it across the table, and go away to her room. But she was no longer a Second Assistant Librarian of the Great Library of the Clayr. Those days were gone, vanished with everything else that had defined her previous existence and identity.

  Garth Nix

  Writing, Going Away, Library

  Garth Nix (2014). “Lirael”, p.300, Hot Key Books

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• Facts mean little compared to attitudes. To contradict rumor or sentiment is as futile as arguing against a believer's faith in the Immaculate Conception. You have simply become a victim of faith, Comrade Assistant.

  Milan Kundera

  Attitude, Mean, Rumor

  Milan Kundera (1974). “Laughable Loves”

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• No matter what has happened, you're not a pig-boy; you're an Assistant Pig Keeper!

  Lloyd Alexander

  Boys, Pigs, Matter

  Lloyd Alexander (2006). “The Black Cauldron”, p.155, Macmillan

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• You don’t want a general houseworker, do you? Or a traveling companion, quiet, refined, speaks fluent French entirely in the present tense? Or an assistant billiard-maker? Or a private librarian? Or a lady car-washer? Because if you do, I should appreciate your giving me a trial at the job. Any minute now, I am going to become one of the Great Unemployed. I am about to leave literature flat on its face. I don’t want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading.

  Dorothy Parker

  Jobs, Book, Reading

  Dorothy Parker (1970). “A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by "Constant Reader"”

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• Most of us are called on to perform tasks far beyond what we can do. Our capabilities seldom match our aspirations, and we are often woefully unprepared. To this extent, we are all Assistant Pig-Keepers at heart.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Heart, Pigs, Tasks

  Lloyd Alexander (2013). “The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.179, Macmillan

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• I worked for a while as a teaching assistant while I was struggling. I really enjoyed it, working with kids with special needs, autism. It takes a hell of a lot of concentration, and you've got to focus on the child properly for seven hours a day.

  Joseph Mawle

  Children, Struggle, Teaching

  "Joseph Mawle: 'I've played some despicable characters'". Interview with Ursula Kenny, www.theguardian.com. March 19, 2011.

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• I don't drive, so one of my assistants drives me to my writing room, and I have a calendar on the wall telling me how much time I have left, and how far behind I am. I look at it and panic, and decide which scene to work on. And you sit there plonking notes until something makes sense, and you don't think about it any more. Good tunes come when you're not thinking about it.

  Hans Zimmer

  Wall, Writing, Thinking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't believe that your phone should be an assistant.

  Andy Rubin

  Believe, Phones, Should

  "Android Chief Says Your Phone Should Not Be Your Assistant". allthingsd.com. October 19, 2011.

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