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• I know that to paint the sea really well, you need to look at it every hour of every day in the same place so that you can understand its way in that particular spot; and that is why I am working on the same motifs over and over again, four or six times even.

  Claude Monet

  Artist, Sea, Needs

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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• Once I've got the first draft down on paper then I do five or six more drafts, the last two of which will be polishing drafts. The ones in between will flesh out the characters and maybe I'll check my research.

  Colleen McCullough

  Character, Two, Research

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• But, then, Sampras won Wimbledon six times and that automatically puts him among the greatest

  Richard Krajicek

  Wimbledon

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• The Second World War is the largest single event in human history, fought across six of the world's seven continents and all it oceans. It killed 50 million human beings, left hundreds of millions of others wounded in mind or body and materially devastated much of the heartland of civilization.

  John Keegan

  War, Ocean, Heart

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• I have hardly seen my baby for six weeks; have been at the office from nine A.M. to eleven P.M. regularly.

  Franklin Knight Lane

  Baby, Office, Nine

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• For six years, I kept my five Olympic medals wrapped in a plastic bread bag beneath my bed.

  Mary Lou Retton

  Years, Bed, Bags

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• Just six days after its release on iTunes, a record-breaking 33 million people have already listened to the album.

  Eddy Cue

  Records Breaking, People, Albums

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• In addition to being a nurse, I'm also a small business owner and I taught at a local community college. I'm also a proud mother of three and grandmother of six - all of them wonderful.

  Diane Black

  Mother, College, Nurse

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• Eighty-six percent of the gun death of children under the age of 14 internationally is right here in the United States of America. It is madness.

  Nita Lowey

  Children, Gun, America

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• Agents are probably going to hate me for saying it... You're not very valuable when you're making $20 million. When you're Mike Trout, making the minimum, you are crazy valuable. My first six years, before I was a free agent, I was very valuable. But there's nothing you can do that can justify a $20 million contract.

  Mark Teixeira

  Hate, Crazy, Years

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• As they say, one thing led to another, and, ultimately, the British and Irish governments asked me to serve as chairman of the peace negotiations, which ironically began six years ago this week.

  George J. Mitchell

  Government, Years, Week

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• Armed struggle is a necessary and morally correct form of resistance in the Six Counties against a government whose presence is rejected by the vast majority of the Irish people There are those who tell us that the British government will not be moved by armed struggle. As has been said before, the history of Ireland and of British colonial involvement throughout the world tells us that they will not be moved by anything else.

  Gerry Adams

  Struggle, Government, People

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• Even if it doesn't work out, the experience is so valuable to so many employers that your worst case scenario is, 'Ok, so that was a bust, I'll get a six-figure job at whatever company.' Risk is this outmoded idea - your parents might not understand that, but taking these types of risks doesn't have a downside.

  Drew Houston

  Jobs, Ideas, Worst Case Scenario

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• It (Twitter) closes the six degrees of separation to one degree of separation

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Degrees, Six Degrees Of Separation, Separation

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• Perhaps I could best describe my experience of doing mathematics in terms of entering a dark mansion. You go into the first room and it's dark, completely dark. You stumble around, bumping into the furniture. Gradually, you learn where each piece of furniture is. And finally, after six months or so, you find the light switch and turn it on. Suddenly, it's all illuminated and you can see exactly where you were. Then you enter the next dark room.

  Andrew Wiles

  Dark, Light, Pieces

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• "I think you're begging the question," said Haydock, "and I can see looming ahead one of those terrible exercises in probability where six men have white hats and six men have black hats and you have to work it out by mathematics how likely it is that the hats will get mixed up and in what proportion. If you start thinking about things like that, you would go round the bend. Let me assure you of that!"

  Agatha Christie

  Math, Exercise, Men

  Agatha Christie (1980). “Five complete Miss Marple novels”, Random House Value Publishing

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• I told myself, "Lincoln, you can never make a lawyer if you do not understand what demonstrate means." So I left my situation in Springfield, went home to my father's house, and stayed there till I could give any proposition in the six books of Euclid at sight. I then found out what "demonstrate" means, and went back to my law studies.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Education, Father, Book

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• Unfortunately for the Iraqi people, instead of meeting these requirements, for six years, Saddam Hussein has lied, delayed, obstructed and tried to deceive

  Madeleine Albright

  Lying, Years, People

  "Saddam Hussein: Iraq not seeking confrontation". www.cnn.com. November 16, 1997.

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• I was the youngest. The yule lamb. The one who always got away without doing the washing up. My sister was four years older, and my brother six years.

  Jeremy Irons

  Brother, Years, Yule

  "Oscar, Tony, and Emmy Award-Winning Actor". The Academy of Achievemnt Interview, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.

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• No one knew me until I met my wife Lulu. Lulu's mother used to ask, Which one is Maurice? For six months she thought Lulu was dating Barry.

  Maurice Gibb

  Mother, Wife, Dating

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

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• We had two rules growing up in my house: If you're going to take a shower, do it with whomever you're dating so you don't waste water; and if you buy one for yourself, buy six, because everybody's going to want one.

  Moon Unit Zappa

  Growing Up, Two, Water

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• I got that experience through dating dozens of men for six years after college, getting an entry level magazine job at 21, working in the fiction department at Good Housekeeping and then working as a fashion editor there as well as writing many articles for the magazine.

  Judith Krantz

  Fashion, Jobs, Writing

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• I was going to visit IBM for six months as a visiting scientist. Now, six months is a lot of time, so I came with a whole list of projects that I might want to work on.

  Wietse Venema

  Six Months, Want, Might

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• I've been working some really long hours for the last five or six years. Anybody who works on series television knows, and especially women because women spend probably two hours more than the guys with all their hair and makeup crap.

  Victoria Pratt

  Makeup, Hair, Years

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• They say people can think for themselves? Do you honestly believe that the chap who can’t pass primary six knows the consequence of his choice when he answers a question viscerally, on language, culture and religion? But we knew the consequences. We would starve, we would have race riots. We would disintegrate.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Believe, Thinking, Race

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