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I remember my first friend who got sick. It was 1981, and the disease was called the gay cancer. I don't think the word 'AIDS' came out until '84. I just remember it being terrifying as more people got sick. We didn't know how you could catch it, you heard all kinds of crazy things.

Ellen Barkin

Crazy, Cancer, Gay

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I was trained by Method acting teachers and we were taught that aside from whatever gift you may or may not have or the level of that gift, that you were obliged to know how to build a table. It's a craft. It's like being a ballerina or a violinist.

Ellen Barkin

Teacher, Acting, Levels

"Actress-producer Ellen Barkin". "The Tavis Smiley Show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. November 14, 2011.

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I wanted to escape from love, but didn't know how.

Ding Ling

Love, Wanted, Knows

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The trouble with the dictionary is that you have to know how a word is spelled before you can look it up to see how it is spelled.

Will Cuppy

Looks, Trouble, Dictionary

Will Cuppy (1951). “How to Get from January to December”

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He who would tell divers tales must know how to vary the tune.

Marie de France

Tunes, Tales, Knows

Marie de France (2015). “Medieval Lays and Legends of Marie de France”, p.97, Xist Publishing

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Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light.

Michael Ondaatje

Light, Historical, Research

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You know how in high school you do these plays and people come up after the show and they're really excited for you? Well, that's what's happening to me right now.

Mira Sorvino

School, Play, People

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Once you've found something you know how to do, it makes you feel you don't have to be intimidated by someone.

Mira Sorvino

Found, Feels, Knows

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To know how to dispense with things is to possess them.

Jean-Francois Regnard

Discipline, Knows

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I consider a merchant someone who has a certain intuition and instinct, and - very important - knows how to run a business, knows the numbers.

Millard Drexler

Running, Numbers, Intuition

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Man is an idiot. He doesn't know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plagiarizing, without aping. It might even have been that man invented generation by coitus after seeing the grasshopper copulate.

Augusto Roa Bastos

Men, Copying, Generations

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I think I'm an actor. You can hire me. I can do a good job. But you also have to get lucky now and then. Every film-maker knows how hard it is to do a good film. You have to just make many, and see how lucky you get.

Rutger Hauer

Jobs, Thinking, Lucky

"Rutger Hauer on Hobo With A Shotgun" by Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. July 8, 2011.

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I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.

Nathalie Sarraute

France, Week, Impression

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I'll always stand by the first [Batman]. Even for its imperfections, people will never know how hard that movie was to do. A lot of that still holds up.

Michael Keaton

People, Imperfection, Firsts

"Michael Keaton Endorses Chris Nolan's Batman Flicks, Looks Forward To 'Dark Knight'". Interview with Josh Horowitz, www.mtv.com. January 21, 2008.

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The most important thing I think teachers can do for young people is to make them inquiring, is to ensure that they know how to gather information, that they check information and they take their information from a multiplicity of sources.

David Puttnam

Teacher, Thinking, People

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As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.

Franz Grillparzer

Past, Adults, Youth

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Every film is a crapshoot. It's a mystery when a movie comes together. I've never been able to figure it out. I don't know how I make my choices. The only thing you can do is know there's something about a character that you really want to experience.

Elisabeth Shue

Character, Choices, Together

"Elisabeth Shue: Shue Shines Again". Interview with Lawrence Grobel, movieline.com. August 1, 2000.

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I did 'The Karate Kid,' then I just went back to college. I didn't know how much money it made and I didn't have a publicist. I didn't have any sense of the business part of it.

Elisabeth Shue

Kids, College, Karate

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You never know how long Federer is going to play, but in my opinion he has at least one or two more grand slams to win. It depends how long he stays motivated. For me, he is the greatest player to ever play the game.

Bjorn Borg

Winning, Player, Games

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You know how kids are. They like to do what parents do.

Ivan Lendl

Kids, Parent, Knows

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He who knows how will always work for he who knows why.

David Lee Roth

Knows

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To know all about anything is to know how to deal with it under all circumstances.

William Kingdon Clifford

Circumstances, Deals, Knows

William Kingdon Clifford, Leslie Stephen, Frederick Pollock (2011). “Lectures and Essays”, p.183, Cambridge University Press

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I don't know how you define 'neoconservatism,' but I think it's associated with trying to spread open political systems and democracy.

George P. Shultz

Thinking, Political, Democracy

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I didn't know how well my first album had done; it was enough to get me to do the second album, which was a continuation of the music I'd worked on and perfected.

Roberta Flack

Albums, Done, Firsts

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I know how important it is to have your quarterback standing upright. Matter of fact, I know how important it is not to allow someone hit on him period because I want him to think that this pocket is completely safe, no one is going to get to me and I got all the time in the world to make whatever decisions I need to make.

Emmitt Smith

Thinking, Decision, Important

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