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• Writing is total grunt work. A lot of people think it's all about sitting and waiting for the muse. I don't buy that. It's a job. There are days when I really want to write, days when I don't. Every day I sit down and write.

  Jodi Picoult

  Jobs, Writing, Thinking

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• If you do a scene and you really like a character in it or a premise in it to write it down and to work on it so that you can have five or six characters that you can pull out in an audition.

  Amy Poehler

  Writing, Character, Auditions

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• If a leader doesn't convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they'll start to fall down and get depressed.

  Colin Powell

  Fall, Passion, Organization

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• In all seriousness, people think that it's the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has ideas, all the time. I tend to write mine down and remember them, but at some point you have to apply the bum to the seat and knock out about sixty five thousand words - that's how long a novel is.

  Terry Pratchett

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

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• The key is just to ignore the pain, because physical comedy only works if you see someone get hurt and they aren't actually hurt. If someone gets hit in the face with a bat, falls down, and gets back up, it's funny. If they stay down and their jaw is wired shut in the next scene, it's really tragic and weird. You have to pretend it doesn't hurt.

  Chris Pratt

  Hurt, Pain, Fall

  "Parks and Recreation's Chris Pratt on the Hilarious Third Season and the Surprise of Rob Lowe". Interview with Christopher Rosen, movieline.com. January 26, 2011.

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• Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall down and someday it will come to you.

  Anna Quindlen

  Mother, Baby, Real

  "The Other Side". The New York Times Opinion Page, www.nytimes.com. December 09, 1993.

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• Oh, the Irish were building the railroads down through Mexico, through Chihuahua. They finished the railroads when they finished out in the West Coast, and they went down and put the trains into Mexico.

  Anthony Quinn

  Railroads, Mexico, West Coast

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• Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.

  Francois Rabelais

  Memories, Men, Kind Deeds

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• When you're a chef, you graze. You never get a chance to sit down and eat. They don't actually sit down and eat before you cook. So when I finish work, the first thing I'll do, and especially when I'm in New York, I'll go for a run. And I'll run 10 or 15k on my - and I run to gain my appetite.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Running, New York, Gains

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• Times change; Hollywood is not the same as it was when I first entered the business. It felt to me like it was starting to narrow down and centralize itself around what would... make money.

  Robert Redford

  Hollywood, Firsts, Making Money

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• Women do well in their thirties. They put their bags down and say, 'This is who I am - like it or lump it.' There is a more relaxed quality, which I like.

  Kelly Reilly

  Who I Am, Quality, Bags

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

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• You reach deep down and bring up what feels absolutely authentic to you as you move along with the book, but you don't know everything about it. You can't.

  Anne Rice

  Moving, Book, Feels

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• There is no better news, than the fact that Jesus can actually turn a life upside down and save it.

  Cliff Richard

  Jesus, News, Facts

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• I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.

  Pat Robertson

  Evil, Triumph, Communism

  "Pat Robertson: Pray for justices to retire". Interview with Paula Zahn, www.cnn.com. July 17, 2003.

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• Sometimes I'm so tired, I look down at what I'm wearing, and if it's comfortable enough to sleep in, I don't even make it into my pajamas. I'm looking down, and I'm like, 'T-shirt and stretchy pants? Yup, that's fine. It's pajama-y, good night.'

  Rebecca Romijn

  Good Night, Sleep, Tired

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• Acting was never my first choice as a profession, but I came to terms with it when I decided I better buckle down and be the best I can be at it.

  Mickey Rourke

  Choices, Acting, Firsts

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• Don't be a bottleneck. If a matter is not a decision for the President or you, delegate it. Force responsibility down and out. Find problem areas, add structure and delegate. The pressure is to do the reverse. Resist it.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Responsibility, Decision, President

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.

  Nolan Ryan

  Beautiful, Baseball, Want

  Nolan Ryan (1990). “Throwing Heat: The Autobiography of Nolan Ryan”, Avon Books

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• I'm more of a guy's girl. I like having a beer in a bar, and I don't bicker or sit down and do my nails.

  Zoe Saldana

  Girl, Beer, Guy

  "Zoe Saldana's Star Turn". Interview with Monica Corcoran, www.womenshealthmag.com. April 13, 2009.

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• When I hit my thirties, that's when I calmed down and I wasn't so tough on myself. I wasn't doing the yo-yo dieting any more. I gave myself a break. I think that, if you're more accepting of yourself, you're more free and open and can just allow more people in.

  Nicole Scherzinger

  Thinking, People, Dieting

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

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• I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something.

  Eric Schmidt

  Believe, Book, Reading

  "Eric Schmidt Tells Charlie Rose Google Is "Unlikely" To Buy Twitter And Wants To Turn Phones Into TVs". Interview with Charlie Rose, techcrunch.com. Mar 7, 2009.

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• I told the President, I told Rahm Emanuel and others in the administration that I thought the policy they took to try to bring about negotiations is counter-productive, because when you give the Palestinians hope that the United States will do its negotiating for them, they are not going to sit down and talk.

  Charles Schumer

  Giving, Trying, President

  "Schumer: Obama's 'counter-productive' Israel policy 'has to stop'" by Ben Smith, www.politico.com. April 22, 2010.

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• There are times when you have to face your enemies, sit down and deal with it.

  Martin Scorsese

  Enemy, Faces, Deals

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• I've done a lot of fighting in my time, and I'm down to do some more. I don't want to, but you know, there's just certain things that you can't sit down and take.

  Jill Scott

  Fighting, Done, Want

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• I feel confident writing on my feet with improv, but it's different when you're sitting down and writing it out.

  Amy Sedaris

  Writing, Feet, Sitting Down

  Interview with Amelie Gillette, www.avclub.com. June 28, 2006.

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