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• I wanted to be a cartoonist. I was one of those kids who sat around and drew in my room all the time.

  Michael Stuhlbarg

  Kids, Rooms, Wanted

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

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• There came this point where I sat down with all my notebooks and I had to start to write, when I thought: this whole notion of writing for the person who understands nothing, the average reader ... He has to die! I can't have him in my head. And so the person I started writing for was the homicide detective.

  David Simon

  Notebook, Writing, Average

  "Arrogant? Moi?". Interview with Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. March 27, 2009.

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• When color TV arrived, it just sat there and you saw color. I've been to retail stores where there were no 3-D glasses at all and the 3-D images were all blurred. People were coming in and saying, "I don't want to buy that." There's a lot of marketing connected to introducing technologies and especially introducing new experiences.

  Howard Stringer

  Technology, Glasses, Introducing New

  "CEO Howard Stringer sees Sony's future in 3-D". Interview with David Lieberman, www.usatoday.com. January 5, 2011.

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• For example, I wouldn't hesitate to sit somebody down if he wasn't performing, even if he was the No. 1 player in the world. I've been sat down before.

  Payne Stewart

  Player, Example, World

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• One day Mum saved up for this exciting new thing - a frozen chicken. She cooked it on the Sunday and we all sat around waiting for it, but there was a terrible smell from the kitchen. She didn't realise that the giblets were in a plastic bag inside it. We just ate vegetables and she cried and cried.

  Carol Vorderman

  Sunday, Smell, Vegetables

  "Carol Vorderman: My family values". Interview with Nick McGrath, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2011.

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• The highest octave kundalini is the golden light which occurs in the supraconscious; it is the supraconscious. It's what they call Sat Chit Ananda - existence, consciousness, bliss ... full consciousness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Golden

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• We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Football, Writing, Wine

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• I have sat at the sumptuous tables of power, but I have not run away with the silverware.

  Diosdado Macapagal

  Running, Tables, Sumptuous

  "World: Common Man's President". During campaign stops in 1961, Time, content.time.com. November 24, 1961.

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• One day, I got so disgusted that I sat down and wrote a list called 'Justin's list of things to do before he kicks the bucket.' I wrote it for myself and shortened it to 'Justin's Bucket List.' It was there on the wall, not as a story idea but as a motivational tool for myself, which actually ended up working pretty well.

  Justin Zackham

  Wall, Ideas, One Day

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• And one day, this thing happened to me: I coughed, and the blood just came gushing out of my mouth. ... I still can't believe that that happened to me, but I sat there, and I said to God, 'Well, if it means I'm going to die, that's OK.' I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.

  Desmond Tutu

  Believe, Mean, Thinking

  "Desmond Tutu, Insisting We Are 'Made For Goodness'". Interview with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. March 11, 2010.

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• It's not that I ever sat down and outlined a trilogy, but I always have a sense of what size an idea is when I start it.

  Veronica Roth

  Ideas, Down And, Size

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• I acted for so many years and sat on a million sets and worked with a million different directors so that is to me some of the best training you can get.

  Grant Heslov

  Years, Training, Directors

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• I sat down one night and wrote the line rock, rock, rock everybody.

  Bill Haley

  Night, Rocks, Lines

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• Back before 'Brick,' I wrote a short film that I never ended up shooting: hit men in the present who work for a mob in the future who send their victims back in time. A guy is sent his future self, he lets him run, and the whole short was them chasing each other across the city. That sat in a drawer for 10 years until after I made 'Brothers Bloom.

  Rian Johnson

  Running, Brother, Men

  "Why Looper is director Rian Johnson's best film yet". Interview with Peter Rubin, www.wired.com. September 27, 2012.

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• I'd never taken an SAT prep course. They were for weaker students.

  John Katzman

  Taken, Students, Preps

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• We should get rid of the SAT as fast as we can. Look, there are bigger problems in society. This is not the biggest problem we have. But it's so easy to get rid of it. Right? Just pull the plug.

  John Katzman

  Looks, Problem, Easy

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• Why do men outperform women on the SAT? The SAT's supposed to predict college grades. Women do better in high school and they do better in college. What's the problem here? Ah, the more you use, the more you start accepting that the SAT's coachable, the more problems you have with it.

  John Katzman

  School, College, Men

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• You still remember your SAT scores. And everybody else does too. Everybody's forgotten everything about themselves, everything else about high school. They remember their SAT scores.

  John Katzman

  School, Doe, Remember

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• I was taken to concerts when I was six, seven years old, and sat in a box throughout the whole evening.

  Kitty Carlisle

  Taken, Years, Evening

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• The saddest thing is that when I sat down to rehearse for the Pixies, I couldn't believe that I had given up something that I loved. Now I hold the drum at night and I want to go to bed with it.

  Joey Santiago

  Believe, Night, Bed

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• It is time the Arabs and the Jews sat down and settled this dispute in the true Christian spirit.

  Warren Austin

  Christian, Down And, Spirit

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• If the world does not shine brightly, even just the physical, sensual perception after meditation, you have not meditated. You have sat and thought of things that were not real.

  Frederick Lenz

  Real, Shining, Meditation

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• My buddy Alex Blumberg learned - he was very public about his learning process, and I know for a fact because we sat next to each other for many years, that he knew nothing about venture capital or seed rounds or "A" rounds or whatever you call them, and he had to really learn, like, pitch by pitch. He just screwed pitches up.

  David Plotz

  Years, Alex, Venture

  Source: www.slate.com

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• If you sat down and you wrote a script, you may write something that's way beyond what you've ever seen me do, but if you thought of me to do it, I would be flattered to be asked to do something other than be wise.

  Morgan Freeman

  Wise, Writing, Would Be

  "Morgan Freeman Talks OBLIVION, Working with Tom Cruise, Being Drawn to Sci-Fi and Technology, Shooting a Dual .50 Caliber Machine Gun and More". collider.com. April 16, 2013.

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• When I was a kid and I was being introduced to science fiction by watching movies with my Dad, Kubrick is one of those guys that we used to watch, you know, I watched Clockwork Orange at an age that was incredibly inappropriate, but he sat there with me and he explained what was going on and you know, I came to appreciate it even if I was terrified at the time.

  Duncan Jones

  Dad, Kids, Orange

  Source: collider.com

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