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• The only thing I try to watch carefully is that I never lose the love for the instrument. That's also why I decided against a professional piano career when I was younger.

  Nils Frahm

  Careers, Piano, Trying

  "Cillian Murphy vs. Nils Frahm". Interview with Nils Frahm, www.undertheradarmag.com. January 17, 2014.

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• Hillary Clinton has decided to line up with John McCain in pushing to suspend the federal excise tax on gasoline, 18.4 cents a gallon, for this summer's travel season. This is not an energy policy. This is money laundering: we borrow money from China and ship it to Saudi Arabia and take a little cut for ourselves as it goes through our gas tanks. What a way to build our country.

  Thomas Friedman

  Summer, Country, Cutting

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• After I graduated from the University of Glasgow, I was a self-employed archaeologist going from dig to dig around Scotland, and it was not well-paid. I was an excavator, not a lecturer as well, so paying rent on a flat was tricky. In the end I decided to retrain as a journalist as I couldn't see a future in it.

  Neil Oliver

  Self, Scotland, Ends

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I decided to take a leap of faith and go into business for myself. I'm scared to death!

  Kam Williams

  Leap Of Faith, Scared, Leap

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• We, the great American nation, decided that we've got 138 military bases around the world and we've now figured out that we can buy these drones from the Israelis, and we've decided that the way to proceed is to use this new technology to go and kill anybody that we don't like or who disagrees with us or who we might perceive as making an existential threat.

  Roger Waters

  Military, Technology, Drones

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I decided to read something I normally hate: a cosy mystery. You know one of those mysteries where everything is tidily wrapped up at the end and everyone lives happily ever after? An Agatha Christie kind of mystery. They are so not my thing. But then someone was raving about Barbara Neely's Blanche White books and they sounded interesting.

  Justine Larbalestier

  Hate, Book, White

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I thought I was terrible [to play a cameo] and decided never to act again.

  Paul Auster

  Play, Terrible, Cameos

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• Little books are the things to write at my age, I've decided. Avoid the big ones, go for the little ones.

  Clive James

  Book, Writing, Age

  "Summer Series: Clive James, in the face of death". "PM" with Mark Colvin, www.abc.net.au. December 21, 2015.

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• I wanted to be in my daughter's life, and I decided I didn't want to do music anymore because I was compromising myself too much and I wasn't loving what I was doing.

  Tweet

  Daughter, Want, Too Much

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• I don`t know how it would have gone, but I do know this - Mitt Romney was looking at running and the reason he decided not to run was because he decided that someone was unbeatable. That someone was Jeb Bush.

  Steve Kornacki

  Running, Gone, Reason

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• It wasn't until I moved to New York that I decided to make a conscious effort to be myself.

  Kumail Nanjiani

  New York, Effort, Conscious

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I think both of us [ with Steve Oram], once we decided to do comedy, knew that we would have to come to London to do that.

  Alice Lowe

  Thinking, London, Comedy

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• When I decided to write about my brother and friends, I was attempting to answer the question why. Why did they all die like that? Why so many of them? Why so close together? Why were they all so young? Why, especially, in the kinds of places where we are from? Why would they all die back to back to back to back? I feel like I was writing my way towards an answer in the memoir.

  Jesmyn Ward

  Brother, Writing, Together

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I quickly decided my zombies weren't really zombies. It was instead something you called people who were on this club drug, who then exhibited aggressive behaviors. And then like everyone who writes about zombies, I found it was so much fun.

  Jess Walter

  Fun, Writing, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Intimacy is important in my work because I don't understand existence without intimacy. All of us are dependent on other people - and in ways we don't know. You cross the street and assume that person isn't crazy, they don't want to mow me down with their car. I don't know that person but I am already in a relationship with them. I am asking them to abide by the traffic laws. If they decided not to, I'd be dead. Even in those anonymous ways, we're in relationships.

  Claudia Rankine

  Crazy, Law, Car

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I started designing book jackets, which was great because I was good at it. And then from there I decided to become a freelance graphic designer and I needed to expand beyond book jackets, so I taught myself web design, and then in 1999 some friends of mine decided to start a company called Xanga.com, which was a very early kind of social network slash blogging community.

  Biz Stone

  Book, Design, Community

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I decided that instead of apologizing for having a lot to say, I wanted to create a format where people would come to hear me sing and speak.

  India.Arie

  People, Apologizing, Speak

  "The Legend, The Voice: India.Arie". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

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• Initially I only decided to try and write a novel because I wasn't getting enough screenwriting work. It wasn't a long-held ambition, and certainly the idea came first.

  Stef Penney

  Writing, Ambition, Ideas

  Stef Penney (2008). “The Tenderness of Wolves: A Novel”, p.385, Simon and Schuster

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• It's best to think of these as two things - they're related, but there's different dynamics going on with each of them. A key difference is Abyei is contested territory. We still do not know whether Abyei is going to belong to the new country of South Sudan or effectively the new country of Sudan, the northern part. That was supposed to be decided by a referendum in January; that referendum never happened, so it was being dealt with through political negotiations.

  Rebecca Hamilton

  Country, Thinking, Keys

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I was feeling miserable physically, in a lot of pain to the point where it was almost crippling me, especially creatively. I decided to take that and use it as an inspiration for getting out of bed and making something again.

  Frank Iero

  Pain, Inspiration, Feelings

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• I decided to create a really good laptop recording situation and to learn how to write that way, rather than have the perfect stuff around.

  St. Lucia

  Writing, Perfect, Laptops

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You can just imagine the restrictions of shooting in a prison, but I just decided I'm going to embrace those restrictions sometimes when you don't have many choices you can make the best choices.

  Brian Lindstrom

  Choices, Shooting, Sometimes

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I went on tours with [Bob] Dylan - the big one was in 1975 and called Roaring Thunder Review. I knew him well because I met him around the time he did his second album, in 1963. He recorded one of my songs called Shadows. In the 1970s, it was suggested that we do a duet, because we had the same manager, Albert Grossman, who also managed Odetta and Peter, Paul and Mary. Dylan and I respected what each other did, but I just decided not to do it.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Song, Shadow, Roaring

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• It is about something personal and specific, because when the John McCain campaign in 2008 decided to elevate Sarah Palin from total obscurity to make her his vice presidential running mate, they knew they were making a big strategic gamble.They knew they were taking a big risk and it turned out in the end to be a bad choice. It hurt John McCain`s chances.

  Rachel Maddow

  Running, Hurt, Choices

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Poland and my roots are very important for me. That's why I decided to make a feature film in Poland, and with only Polish money.

  Malgorzata Szumowska

  Roots, Important, Film

  "Berlin Q&A: Director Malgorzata Szumowska". Interview with Kirill Galestski, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 13, 2013.

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