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Being Quotes
"It was really fun being in Tara's trailer, working on my lines. Tara is such an amazing actress. She's so good at what she does. I learned a lot from watching her."
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"If we are to attract private investment, if we are to be able to make the legislature feel the moneys from taxpayers are being used properly, we must be ever vigilant of the duty to efficiently use all funds we receive."
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"Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Things have been done the hard way. I think you learn better when things are done the hard way."
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"I would be terribly disappointed if anything would get in the way of my being cast in something, or if performances were canceled. It was a fix that I obviously needed."
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"I think you're not a human being unless you have doubts and fears."
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"Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents."
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"A lot of things happened in a lot of places. And to see how well it was handled in Atlanta. There are a lot of reasons for Atlanta being a special town in the Civil Rights era."
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"Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher."
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"It's sort of what jazz would be if it stopped being snobby and what rock would be if it stopped being stupid."
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"That being said, I often write into recipes techniques I learned in the restaurant kitchen. There are ways of organizing your prep and so on that are immensely useful. Those are woven into all the recipes I do."
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"I never have reservations about doing anything as long as I'm being paid."
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"Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws."
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"I grew up with the television product being old Western serials like Roy Rogers, and John Wayne and Gary Cooper, and many others were my favorites when I was a young person going to films."
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"I'm a minister, and I serve as a minister in addition to being a university professor."
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"It has been surprising to me that so few conservatives have voiced concern over the precedence that are being set in favor of suppression by this so-called conservative administration."
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"The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn't be anything else no matter what I tried to be. I couldn't be Chinese or Japanese."
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"It's one of those things; you just get a very nice stroke from being included in the next thing."
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"In fact, in more cases than not, when we are rational, we're actually unhappy. Emotion is good; passion is good. Being into what we're into, provided that it's a healthy pursuit, it's a good thing."
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"You must understand as a kid of color in those days, the Harlem Globetrotters were like being movie stars."
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"Being away from her is torturous and I'd much prefer to be with her. So I just try to get out of here as soon as I can. I make sure I do my job real well and fast."
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"We have relationships and know the exact outcome with that person because we don't deal with ourselves and don't deal with our issues and end up being attracted to the same person or the person is attracted to our energy."
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"The thing with being on a series that runs that long is that the writers run out of things to do."
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"Take ice. Ice is fascinating to me. Ice is the one thing in our world that went from an agricultural product to being manufactured."
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"I make a good living and I've never looked at myself as being an artiste."
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"Correcting it, I don't know; just shedding the light of day on it is a first major step, being one of the earliest generations not to just accept the words."
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"Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you."
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"I'm tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the enigma shrouded in a mystery."
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"When I was playing I never wished I was doing anything else. I think being a professional athlete is the finest thing a man can do."
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"When you try to figure out what the religious right is, it ultimately comes down either to one man, Pat Robertson, or anyone who believes in a higher being and wants their taxes cut."
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"When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition. If you don't understand what it's about, you're depriving yourself of being really able to communicate this poem."
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"At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded."
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"The great thing about being a writer is that you are always recreating yourself."
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"In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed."
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"The British tend to shy away from the spotlight. We don't like being singled out in any way, and I think that is something which is important for me to learn to do."
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