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• I like poems that immediately claim my attention, instead of taking my attention for granted. At first read, I want to feel compelled to pick up the poem again; I want to be curious about its byways and secret corners.

  James Arthur

  Secret, Attention, Want

  "Poetry As a Way of Thinking: An Interview with James Arthur". Interview with Emilia Phillips, www.32poems.com.

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• If you wagered $5,000 on each of my winning NFL picks in 2012 and $500 ($550) on each of my losing picks, you'd be ahead $70,050. Wow.

  Norman Chad

  Funny, Winning, Nfl

  Twitter post from Sep 06, 2013

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• People will help you do almost anything if you want to do it badly enough. The desire has to be intense, but I would encourage people to search their desires, to pick out one, and then get out and do it!

  Nola Ochs

  People, Desire, Want

  Source: www.mybestyears.com

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• I hate to say it because I think people are risk averse these days more than ever. Before they even pick up the phone, they know what the picture's going to be. So there's a certain comfort in that, a certain security that they can lay out the cover of the magazine and kind of know what it's going to be.

  Gregory Heisler

  Hate, Thinking, Phones

  Source: aphotoeditor.com

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• Most artists should be able to make the album that they want. You don't necessarily pick the singles that you want when you're making a record, but for the most part it's the same process.

  Wale

  Artist, Albums, Records

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's the one thing that the Devils have always prided themselves on. That comes from recruiting. We try and pick out the players who not only have the on-ice skills, but the off-ice skills too. I think in any job, if you have good people and you work together, you work better.

  Gerad Adams

  Jobs, Player, Thinking

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• A good ice hockey player is someone who has good communication skills, is willing to listen and willing to try new things. It's a very technical game and not that easy to pick up. It's a lot of fun but you just have to be patient.

  Gerad Adams

  Fun, Communication, Hockey

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• If I had to pick one exact moment when we were live on air and something very, very special happened it was at the Athens Olympics. Chris Hoy won the Gold Medal in the kilometre time trial and that was incredible.

  Jill Douglas

  Air, Gold, Special

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• With Hairspray, we had a great experience. I always think of the last time I saw Divine: He was in the last booth in the back of the Odeon. Now every time I go in there, I look at that table. It was a wonderful night.Hairspray had been out a week; it was a hit. If I had to pick a night that was going to be the last night.

  John Waters

  Night, Thinking, Looks

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• How do we create beauty in a broken world? How do we create a view of sustainability in an economy that is crashing? How do we reconfigure our lives, how do we pick up the pieces and create a meaningful life? So, yes, we have a different form of leadership but the questions remain the same.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Meaningful, Views, Broken

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• When you're working in the [film] industry and you're working with people who are well known and are so regarded, you do just pick up on things. Seeing the way that people hold themselves and compose themselves before a scene - it's inspirational.

  Asa Butterfield

  People, Way, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Every movie you're going to forget that it's 3D whether it's widescreen or whatever it is, you're going to forget everything if the movie is working. If the movie doesn't work or if the movie generically doesn't work then immediately you start to pick apart whatever has contributed to that.

  Steven Spielberg

  Forget Everything, Forget, Ifs

  Source: collider.com

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• I never really think much about the size of a production because I think as an actor, once you're in it, it's all the same. I never ever pick projects based on their size.

  Eric Bana

  Thinking, Actors, Size

  "Eric Bana Interview, Hanna". Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

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• Pick clothes that you really love. And wear them. And don't make anything "special." If it's being held for something "special," wear it to the market. Wear it every day!

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Clothes, Special, Ifs

  "Jamie Lee Curtis Comes Clean". Interview with Andrew Eccles, www.goodhousekeeping.com. September 3, 2010.

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• One thing that I've realized is that you're never going to be 100 percent successful. You're always going to be let down. When you have God in your life and you follow Christ, you're never going to be let down. Every time that you fail, He's there to pick you right back up. Every time you think the world's going to end because you had a couple of bad games, God's there to remind you that's not what it's all about.

  Mark Teixeira

  Couple, Successful, Thinking

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I couldn't give a sh*t what they have to say. As soon as I go home and see my husband James Thornton of Holby Blue fame and pick up my dog and cuddle him, that's all that matters. I couldn't care if some theatre reviewer thinks my American accent sounds a bit Welsh.

  Joanna Page

  Dog, Husband, Home

  "Joanna Page: 'Within minutes of meeting James Corden, you'll want to sleep with him'". Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. June 13, 2008.

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• I worked in Bhs, but I was only there for a couple of weeks before I got fired because I needed the Saturday off to go to drama club. I was useless - I was so bored. There was nothing to do, so I'd go and do a circuit of the store, throwing jumpers on the floor, then go and pick them up. It wasn't rock 'n' roll rebellion, it was just to look busy. They tried to teach me how to work the till and I'm useless with numbers, so I was making it all up as I went along. I must have lost them tons of money.

  Joanna Page

  Couple, Drama, Numbers

  "Within minutes of meeting James Corden, you'll want to sleep with him". The MIRROR Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. June 13, 2008.

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• I'm a bit obsessive. I've just bought this Wi-Fi radio, which can pick up 7,500 stations from all over the world. I'm boring my wife to death with it. I've got a thing about technology, so I've got four sat-nav systems and loads of gadgets, including a 100% accurate watch. Any new development and I'm there buying it. My best trait is that I'm happy and optimistic.

  Tony Blackburn

  Optimistic, Technology, Wife

  "Interrogation: Tony Blackburn". Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. November 25, 2007.

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• I try to pick music for a diner that doesnt involve a lot of lyrics, so you're not paying attention to that. As long as it doesnt dominate the party, it should be more atmosphere music. When I'm by myself, I never play music.

  Amy Sedaris

  Party, Play, Long

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• You know, albums are a funny thing. They're not like an intellectual decision. It's a collection of your kind of musings. Like it's a collection of your diary entries and you pick which one's gonna make the most sense together and you put out a record and you sort of live it.

  Glen Hansard

  Funny Things, Decision, Intellectual

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Granddaddy can pick up a phone and call anyone in the world and they will take his call. But he doesn't know it.

  Johnny Hunt

  Leadership, Phones, World

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• Always have your players go and pick-up the guy who draws the charge.

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Player, Guy

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• The best any human can do is to pick a delusion that helps him get through the day. This is why people of different religions can generally live in peace. At some level, we all suspect that other people don't believe their own religion any more than we believe ours.

  Scott Adams

  Believe, People, Religion

  Scott Adams (2004). “God's Debris: A Thought Experiment”, p.29, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• A chap can't pick the way he'll die, or we'd all do better at it.

  John Towner Williams

  Death, Dying, Way

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• Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

  Robert Townsend

  Business, Mistake, Two

  Robert Townsend (1988). “Further up the organization”, HarperCollins

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