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• I am exactly where I want to be now. You can't go backward. I'm not going backward. I'm grateful that I'm here, blessed to have what I have. Nobody can be prepared for anything. If you end up in a place where you can look back and go, 'It happened, but I'm so lucky to be sitting where I am sitting...'

  Sandra Bullock

  Grateful, Blessed, Want

  "Sandra Bullock Opens Up in Vogue About Son Louis and Her Career". www.latimes.com. September 17, 2013.

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• When something happens, I always check myself and know it's going to go away. So be prepared for it. This is a tough business for actors who are sensitive. If you try to hold on to things, you'll go crazy.

  Jessica Chastain

  Business, Crazy, Going Away

  "Meet The Younger, Hotter Meryl Streep". Interview with Anne Brodie, www.askmen.com.

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• Great control and great discipline are necessary when you reach your own editing stage of the book, but in the early stages you have to be prepared to let anything happen and to get it wrong or go off track. The development of a character is not smooth or simple - it is as tricky as meeting someone new whom you would like to know better.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Book, Character, Simple

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• If you want to bring an end to long-standing conflict, you have to be prepared to compromise. If either or both sides insist on getting everything that they want - that is to say 100 percent of their demands to be met, then there can never be a settlement.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Long, Demand, Want

  Source: www.voanews.com

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• If you love music and you are good in it, you will be fine. But be prepared to have to work hard.

  Nigel Godrich

  Hard Work, Music Love, Fine

  Source: www.self-titledmag.com

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• Even when couples share more equitably in the work at home, women do two-thirds of the daily jobs at home, like cooking and cleaning up--jobs that fix them into a rigid routine. Most women cook dinner and most men change the oil in the family car. But dinner needs to be prepared every evening around six o'clock, whereas the car oil needs to be changed every six months, any day around that time, any time that day.... Men thus have more control over when they make their contributions than women do.

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

  Jobs, Couple, Women

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• If you're passionate about what you do, then go for it wholeheartedly. Be prepared that if anytime, you may be surprised by a phenomenal opportunity that may come your way, and that's when I say, do your homework. Be ready.

  Julie Andrews

  Opportunity, Passionate, May

  "VRHS Student Interviews Julie Andrews". Interview with Laura Harkness, valleynewsnow.com. October 29, 2012.

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• Be prepared to do whatever you have to do. If you get put in a situation where your back is up against the wall let your gun go off.

  Curtis Jackson

  Wall, Gun, Situation

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• We've all got to remember to pick our battles carefully, to be prepared to lose small ones, and to hold out for big ones.

  Marge M. Kennedy

  Battle, Remember, Lost

  Marge M. Kennedy (1994). “The Single-parent Family: Living Happily in a Changing World”, Three Rivers Press (CA)

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• A free India will throw all her weight in favour of world disarmament and should herself be prepared to give a lead in this.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Giving, India, World

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• The biggest challenge for me, as an actor, is to be informed, prepared and focused, at the same time. I had to just keep on working, prepping, reading and imagining, all the way through, but the biggest challenge is always to let go of all that and just be open to others. That's what we do, as actor. We play with each other and we stimulate each other, and we have to be prepared to be stimulated by the other. That's always my big challenge.

  Hugo Weaving

  Letting Go, Reading, Play

  Source: collider.com

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• We've never had to confront a really nationalistic American government since the War of 1812. But if it ever happened, it would be trouble for us. Such a government would be prepared to use trade as a club in dealing with us - one of many, if it decided to take American power out for a walk around the block. I don't mean military occupation or anything like that, but a desire for unquestioning adherence to whatever the nostrum of the day happened to be. That's rather scary. We've never had to deal with an American president who was completely a wing-nut.

  Robert Bothwell

  Block, Military, War

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Dare to declare who you are. It is not far from the shores of silence to the boundaries of speech. The path is not long, but the way is deep. You must not only walk there, you must be prepared to leap.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Long, Silence, Speech

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• The biggest dilemma in education today is the differing visions of what an educated person means. To do well on tests is often more important than helping young people really be prepared to deal with the tests of life.

  Linda Lantieri

  Education, Mean, People

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• The scientist … must always be prepared to deal with the unknown. It is an essential part of science that you should be able to describe matters in a way where you can say something without knowing everything.

  Hermann Bondi

  Knowing, Essentials, Matter

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• ...visions are messages from the Great Spirit, each for a different purpose in life. Consequently, one person's vision may not be that of another. To have a vision, one must be prepared to receive it, and when it comes, to accept it. Thus when these inner urges become reality, only then can visions be fulfilled. The spiritual side of life knows everyone's heart and who to trust. How could a vision ever be given to someone to harbor if that person could not be trusted to carry it out. The message is simple: commitment precedes vision.

  Tim McCoy

  Spiritual, Heart, Commitment

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• I'm all for file sharing. That's great - as long as people are prepared for the significant consequences. One is that music will become completely couched in advertising. That's already happened. And another is that people should be prepared to have fun with the past because the only music that can possibly be free is the music that's from the past. It costs money to make music. And if people are prepared to only have the past to listen to, then let it be free.

  Ian MacKaye

  Fun, Past, Long

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• If the world powers are not prepared to insist that Iran change its behavior before a deal is signed, at the very least they should insist that Iran change its behavior before a deal expires.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Change, Iran, World

  Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a joint session of the US Congress, time.com. March 3, 2015.

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• I do believe in growing old gracefully, and when the time comes that I would look silly performing on stage, I'll be prepared to give it up without regrets.

  George Harrison

  Regret, Believe, Silly

  Source: friarparksoulclub.tumblr.com

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• At the end of the day, filmmaking is a sheer act of creative will. You have to be prepared to stick with your art no matter what comes your way.

  Nicholas Ozeki

  Art, Creative, The End Of The Day

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• You should be prepared for anything during divorce proceedings - even the truth.

  Dave Barry

  Divorce, Should, Proceeding

  Dave Barry (2001). “All the Dave Barry you could ever want: four classic books in one from America's foremost humorist”

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• I try to be prepared for the moment, through understanding, and being warmed up, knowing all about chords and scales, so I don't even have to think and I can get right to what it is I want to say.

  Pat Metheny

  Thinking, Knowing, Understanding

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• If you're a theater director, you're not going to be prepared for the technical side. And if you're a technical director, you're not going to be prepared for the acting side. The only thing you can do is go through the meat grinder of your first film.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Acting, Film

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You have to be prepared to think outside the box...Stand back and think about what we could do creativity. We've got to do that to push the field forward.

  Geoffrey Canada

  Creativity, Thinking, Fields

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• There are some who've forgotten why we have a military. It's not to promote war. It's to be prepared for peace. There's a sign over the entrance to the Fairchild Air Force Base in Washington state, and that sign says it all: 'Peace is our profession'.

  Ronald Reagan

  Military, War, Air

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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