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• I used to play the piano by listening to it - like Chopin pieces, when I was, like, a little kid - and then the minute my parents got me lessons to read music, I couldn't do it anymore.

  Eliza Coupe

  Kids, Play, Piano

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

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• I don't believe that narrative works when it's trying to teach a lesson or speak a factual truth.

  Shane Carruth

  Believe, Trying, Narrative

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• It was easy to believe, between lessons on Shakespeare and Dickens and Austen, that all of the great stories had already been written by dead Europeans. But every time I saw 'The Outsiders', I knew better. It was the first time I'd realized that real people write books.

  Ally Carter

  Real, Believe, Book

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• I think the biggest lesson that I take from 'Avatar' on any set that I go to is just work ethic. Working with Jim Cameron, you're used to working very, very long days and you're very meticulous about details. He's very, very picky about little details, little character-isms and things.

  Laz Alonso

  Character, Thinking, Long

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't know French at all. I took some lessons when I was younger but all I know are the numbers. I've been told basically everyone in Monaco speaks English because of it being a huge vacation spot so I'm excited about that. I might not need to learn French after all.

  Freddy Adu

  Vacation, Speak English, Numbers

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• I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.

  Aaron Carter

  Running, Hands, Lasts

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• Lesson from Pataki's success is: Use the political moment.

  Andrew Cuomo

  Political, Use, Moments

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• I'm probably the only kid in history whose parents made him stop taking music lessons. They made me stop studying the accordion.

  Ricky Jay

  Kids, Parent, Study

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• I took piano lessons when I was like 5 or 6 but that was a long time ago. I stopped when I was 13.

  Marion Cotillard

  Piano, Long, Piano Lesson

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

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• It's very important to always put things in their historical contexts. It teaches important lessons about the country in question.

  Warren Christopher

  Country, Historical, Important

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• That's an important lesson for me, to not qualify my experience against somebody else's. My experience is the experience that I wanted to have, and have created for myself, but it doesn't make me any more deserving than anybody else; or less.

  Alexis Denisof

  Important, Wanted, Deserving

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. February 11, 2003.

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• In terms of the idea of long-term occupation - I have been reading a little bit more about this period - and you can see in that occupation are many lessons for the current occupation of Iraq. So we have these connections that go way back that people aren't aware of.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Reading, Ideas, Iraq

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org. April 20, 2004.

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• I had piano lessons at five and started guitar at ten, but although music and acting was always around me, my parents never pressured me into it.

  Micky Dolenz

  Guitar, Piano, Parent

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• I had a period of unemployment for about nine months after my first big break, and it's the greatest lesson I ever could have learned, never to believe you're home and dry.

  Natalie Dormer

  Believe, Home, Unemployment

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• I always managed to get in trouble, like every kid. But I had to learn a lot of hard lessons on my own, without parents who would nurture me and guard me through that part of life, at a very young age.

  Ted Dekker

  Kids, Parent, Age

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• In ways I don't entirely have the words for an experience, thought or a lesson isn't real for me until I've written down.

  Alexandra Fuller

  Real, Way, Written

  "'Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness' by Alexandra Fuller". Interview with Jeff Glor, www.cbsnews.com. September 19, 2011.

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• My parents signed me up for classical guitar lessons, which made for two years of the most depressing Wednesday evenings.

  Andrew Garfield

  Depressing, Guitar, Years

  Interview with Terry Gilliam, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 17, 2010.

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• My goal was to play drums, but my father made me take piano lessons. He told me I needed to learn to read music first, so I took lessons for six years. I thank God that he made me take those lessons, because it taught me a tremendous amount.

  Brian Austin Green

  Father, Piano, Years

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• The single biggest lesson I learned was when a hire isn't working out fire them fast. My biggest mistakes, and where I've seen the worst results, were when I gave someone too many chances, or let a situation drift on for too long because I couldn't bring myself to terminate it.

  Cindy Gallop

  Mistake, Fire, Long

  "How Cindy Gallop Broke Through the "Thick Layer of Men" and Became the Counterpoint to Porn". Interview with Leslie Bradshaw, www.forbes.com. August 10, 2011.

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• There are a lot of lessons to be learned. We can all learn lessons.

  David Gill

  Lessons To Be Learned, Learning Lessons

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• The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them.

  Mary Antin

  Father, Tin Cans, Cooking

  Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.127, Courier Corporation

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• I started piano lessons when I was four; I was being classically trained at the Colburn School.

  Jacqueline Emerson

  School, Piano, Four

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• When I was six years old my friend was auditioning for 'Annie,' and I decided I wanted to audition with her. My mom was worried I would fall flat on my face because I'd never opened my mouth to sing, so she sent me to vocal lessons. I did the audition and fell in love with the entire process of a show.

  Jacqueline Emerson

  Mom, Fall, Years

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• When I left school, I got a job in a shoe shop and I used to save 15 quid a week and pay for my own singing and acting lessons.

  Luke Evans

  Jobs, School, Shoes

  "Luke Evans Exclusive Interview TAMARA DREWE; Plus Updates on Tarsem’s IMMORTALS, THE THREE MUSKETEERS and VIVALDI". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 7, 2010.

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• I've grown up a lot, I'm on my own, and I've learned some valuable life lessons.

  Zac Efron

  Life Lesson, I've Learned, Valuable

  "Five Questions with Zac Efron". www.seventeen.com. July 31, 2007.

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