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• I do crosswords when I have time to kill somewhere, and am 100 percent successful on filling in the spots I get stuck on - after I close up, do something else, and then go back to it.

  Carolyn Hax

  Successful, Filling In, Time To Kill

  "Carolyn Hax Live: With the usual apologies to wolves". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. February 05, 2016.

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• One particular spark was when I went back to my favorite spot in the mountains where my father always used to take us before my graduate studies in Canada and finding that the stream I had gone swimming in wasn’t there. The forest had been converted into an apple orchard with World Bank financing. The entire place, literally, had changed.

  Vandana Shiva

  Father, Swimming, Apples

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.

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• If you're going to do a guest spot on television, they need bodies on those procedural TV shows. You've got to keep working, and that's where a lot of the work is.

  William Mapother

  Tv Shows, Tvs, Needs

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I think that that's always been a real talent of mine is to be able to spot somebody who has that thing that is so non-definable, that thing that I wish I possessed.

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Real, Thinking, Wish

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I was at a Madonna show many, many years ago and I was in the sweet spot and she came out and I mean it was the best part of the show. And I was shooting, shooting, shooting, shooting. And I'm like, "God, I must have shot a hundred pictures have I not run out of film?" And I opened the back of my camera and there was no film in there. So that happened to me only once.

  Danny Clinch

  Running, Sweet, Mean

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I think network television is really hard because it has to sail right away. HBO's so much more nurturing, patient. They think it takes a while for a show to kind of congeal and figure out what its strong spots are.

  Amanda Peet

  Strong, Thinking, Hbo

  "Amanda Peet and Steve Zissis discuss what the second season holds for Togetherness". Interview with Gwen Ihnat, www.avclub.com. February 21, 2016.

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• I grew up on the beaches, and I always found it kind of funny that it's considered decent if you cover three tiny spots with pieces of fabric.

  Bo Derek

  Beach, Three, Fabric

  Interview with Hayley Phelan, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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• You could be as vulgar as you want, as long as three tiny spots were covered.

  Bo Derek

  Long, Three, Want

  Interview with Hayley Phelan, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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• I think a lot of nights together have been spoiled by somebody not being able to find a parking spot and saying, "Why don't we just go home?"

  Paul Rust

  Home, Night, Thinking

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• You know, really - actually, it's funny because it's a sore spot with me because I have all these recipes that, you know, you have to measure things out and put them in. And then you bake it and it becomes this thing. And it's not a recipe.

  Trisha Yearwood

  Recipes, Knows, Sure Thing

  "Not My Job: Singer Trisha Yearwood Gets Quizzed On Unhappy Couples". "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. February 27, 2016.

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• Sometimes when a movie is really alive you can see that they were just making decisions on the spot. They weren't bound to anything, they were working with ideas that the actors and situations presented.

  Michael Cera

  Ideas, Decision, Actors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Things move so quickly on set. When you're about to do another take and you have a minute to figure out what you're doing, you just kind of determine how you're going to do it on the spot.

  Michael Cera

  Moving, Doing You, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• So I do think sometimes the political mechanism is completely disconnected from the people. However, what I will say is that history tells us that whenever things start to move too fast, whenever progress makes people feel a little breathless, one of the go-to spots that government, that the ruling powers that society goes to is to try to repress women.

  Anna Quindlen

  Moving, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• How can you build a relationship when you're just sending out beats? Most people will come in and play their beats, but I like to make mine on the spot.

  Young Chop

  Play, People, Beats

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I miss the hot spots. I miss the hospital calls. I miss the nursing homes. I miss the really intimate human contact with other people, which I did nothing to earn.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Home, Nursing, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I never really lived outside of the city growing up, but I'm always looking in between the lines of the city, and I magnetize over to the green spots.

  Feist

  Growing Up, Cities, Lines

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. September 28, 2011.

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• When you work on a computer in the studio, it's almost like fossilizing on the spot, you know, the idea of getting solidified on the spot, like a snowflake might create branches by accumulation.

  Rob Brown

  Ideas, Branches, Might

  "Autechre". Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. February 18, 2008.

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• You can get the oldest drum machine out and whack out four sounds like a kick, snare, and two types of high-hat, and try and come up with the freshest thing on the spot. The gear can guide you - you can choose one bit of gear and it's obviously got its restrictions and its limitations, but at the same time, you've got to exploit what it's capable of and what it's best used for.

  Rob Brown

  Two, Trying, Machines

  "Autechre". Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. February 18, 2008.

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• I would drive through the desert, and there's this one spot in the desert that, every time I drove through it, I would get crazy ideas. I would either sing into the cell phone recorder or I would sing into a DAT machine.

  Tim Rutili

  Crazy, Ideas, Phones

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'd love to sign a contract for the soundtracks to every Wes Anderson movie, you know what I'm saying? Things like that, I have no spots on my conscience about.

  Doseone

  Contracts, Soundtracks, Knows

  Interview with Chris Dahlen, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2005.

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• I think my own bias is that there may be something wrong with the timing and the connectivity between regions rather than pointing to one particular spot in the brain.

  Gerald Fischbach

  Thinking, Brain, May

  Source: bigthink.com

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• You're pulling out and someone says, 'hey, you know what, go ahead and take my spot', miracle.

  DeVon Franklin

  Miracle, Hey, Knows

  Source: www1.cbn.com

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• I make predictions about what I'm going to do before a fight, that makes me nervous because I've gotten so good at it until people really look for me to do it.If I say the man's going to fall in round five, like your man Henry Cooper here, he was stopped in round five but it was on a cut - it wasn't because he was out. But usually 'm on the spot with my predictions and some people really gamble and bet money on the rounds I say.

  Muhammad Ali

  Fall, Fighting, Cutting

  "Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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• I was also very interested in music. I used to hang out in jazz joints, you know, the Five Spot and so forth when I was, you know, a senior, really, when I was a little bit older. And I thought, well, maybe I could, you know, work with music. I can't play at all.

  Robert Barry

  Senior, Play, Joints

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Justice Jefferson has a blind spot on race. You know, more than a blind spot. A terrible blemish on his legacy, slavery, for which he's properly excoriated. So, I think [Louis] Brandeis has done this as well.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Thinking, Blind Spots, Race

  "What Would Brandeis Do?". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 16, 2016.

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