Projects Quotes - Page 17

• Instead of putting Americans to work, the Teamsters have been busy yanking members off projects and idling construction projects from California to Indiana to New York in order to shake down employers.

  Michelle Malkin

  New York, Construction Projects, Order

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• I'm just looking for a kind of project that will have a decent role and is something that I'll really enjoy doing. There are a lot more opportunities in television.

  Penelope Ann Miller

  Opportunity, Roles, Television

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• I grew up in the projects in Brooklyn, and I consider myself lucky and blessed to be where I am - just working.

  Tracy Morgan

  Blessed, Lucky, Brooklyn

  "Tracy Morgan Interview" by John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com.

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• I like to work as much as I can, but I only really have the hiatus to work on other projects. I've kept myself busy recently. I voiced a character in 'Ice Age 4,' which was a lot of fun. I also did another small movie called 'The Scribbler.'

  Kunal Nayyar

  Fun, Character, Ice

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

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• As an actor sometimes we sit and wait for projects to be handed to us and we don't really work. We expect our agents and managers to know who we are and to see who we are and offer us a part or send us out and submit us.

  Navid Negahban

  Waiting, Actors, Agents

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• This time at Birmingham turned me into a general biologist, and ever since then I have always tried to take a biological approach to any research project that I have undertaken.

  Paul Nurse

  Research, Birmingham, Approach

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• Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that.

  Ted Nelson

  Arms, Trademarks

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• I pretty much live about 10 minutes from my office. I have two kids, and I have about 8 projects that I'm working on, so I basically just get up and go to work, and go home every night and play with my kids, so I don't really know.

  Bob Odenkirk

  Kids, Home, Night

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

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• I just want to work with good filmmakers and do good projects that mean something to me and play interesting characters. That's really it.

  Dylan O'Brien

  Character, Mean, Play

  "Dylan O’Brien Exclusive Interview TEEN WOLF". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 8, 2011.

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• I'm extremely compassionate, loving, all of those warm fuzzy things, but the outer shell doesn't project that all the time.

  Frank Ocean

  Shells, Fuzzy, Compassionate

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

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• I feel that for the first time in a long time, educated Pakistanis are returning to their country to start up educational projects, to start up businesses, so instead of the brain-drain that happened in the 1950s and 1960s, the country is growing and improving economically.

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  Country, Educational, Long

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• Scholars, street knowledge, Carter kids stuck in the projects.

  Big Pun

  Education, Kids, Stuck

  Song: We Don't Care, Album: Yeeeah Baby, 2000

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• Since I found that one could make a case shadow from a three-dimensional thing, any object whatsoever - just as the projecting of the sun on the earth makes two dimensions - I thought that by simple intellectual analogy, the fourth dimension could project an object of three dimensions, or, to put it another way, any three-dimensional object, which we see dispassionately, is a projection of something four-dimensional, something we are not familiar with.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Simple, Two, Intellectual

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• I don't find anything interesting about the choices a character faces in major films or theater projects. The characters are just cut-out dolls with the American flag sewn on them.

  Amanda Plummer

  Character, Cutting, Interesting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My first professional acting job was in 'Hair' during the Vietnam War. So I think I've always been drawn to projects with a social conscience.

  Clarke Peters

  Jobs, War, Thinking

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• Whenever something good comes up that sounds like I could be part of the project, my manager and my agents send me in on it.

  Tyler Posey

  Sound, Agents, Come Up

  "Tyler Posey and Crystal Reed Exclusive Interview Teen Wolf (MTV’s Reboot Airing in 2011)". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 19, 2010.

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• I'd love to say I made the smart decision of picking projects that became hits, but with 'The Good Wife,' I read the script and something inside me said, 'I love this, I want to do this.'

  Archie Panjabi

  Smart, Wife, Decision

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

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• I love 'Sweet Valley,' but I love it from a different angle. There are people for whom it is their adolescence. They own it, in a way that even I don't. I've come to respect the project more because of the response than I've had. It's more important than I realized it was. I didn't understand the breadth and depth of it. now I'm beginning to more.

  Francine Pascal

  Sweet, People, Important

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• I grew up on the stage, where you just throw yourself into projects and don't get in your own way.

  Jeremy Piven

  Way, Stage, Grew

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• My choices in projects have all been character or role-based, and on a financial level, it's obvious: as an actor on a TV series, I get a wonderful paycheck, and a consistent paycheck, which doesn't always happen when you're doing theater or movies.

  Jim Parsons

  Character, Choices, Roles

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

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• Hollywood will put you in a box, so to speak. Some people will have seen you in 'La Bamba' or another dramatic film and think, 'Okay, that's what Lou does.' But they don't really have an idea of the range or diversity that I can bring to a project.

  Lou Diamond Phillips

  Thinking, Ideas, People

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• I'm a workaholic, I always try to fill my time with projects.

  Teresa Palmer

  Trying, Workaholic, My Time

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• If I don't have a project going, I sit down and begin to write something - a character sketch, a monologue, a description of some sight, or even just a list of ideas.

  Thomas Perry

  Writing, Character, Sight

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• I never know what I'm going to do for the Post next. Two weeks ago I had a piece on Homeland Security. This is one of my pig ongoing projects. How unprepared we are for a terrorist attack.

  Sally Quinn

  Pigs, Two, Ongoing

  "Sally Quinn on Author Karen Armstrong". Online Chat, www.washingtonpost.com. March 29, 2006.

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• The whole point of 'Acid Rap' was just to ask people a question: does the music business side of this dictate what type of project this is? If it's all original music and it's got this much emotion around it and it connects this way with this many people, is it a mixtape? What's an 'album' these days, anyways?

  Chance the Rapper

  Rap, People, Doe

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