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“It took a long time to get to the place in my career where I could pick and choose what I wanted to do.”

“Pick up a stone that feels good to you and is small enough to hold in one hand. Consider how long that stone has been around and what enormous pressure it has experienced. Draw strength from its long history.”

Feels Long Has Beens Enough Hands Draws Picks Stones Pressure Enormous Feel Good Considerate Be Considerate

Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“You have to believe in what you're doing. In the long run, you have to feel that what you're doing, regardless of the trends, will have a lasting quality. Someday someone may pick it up and recognize that it was superior.”

Feels Believe May Long Running Belief Quality Picks Superiors Someday Lasting Trends Long Runs

Author:Will Barnet

“Naked girls with the heads of Marx and Malraux prone and helpless in the glare of the headlights, tried to give them a little joie de vivre but maybe it didn't take, their constant bickering and smallness, it's like a stroke of lightning, the world reminds you of its power, tracheotomies right and left, I am spinning, my pretty child, don't scratch, pick up your feet, the long nights, spent most of my time listening, this is a test of the system, this is only a test.”

Source: Sixty stories

“Whatever you can handle, it's up to you. Pick something where you are going to do it to failure--in other words, where you can hardly do it. That's the key. So many people will just take five pound weights and do something 10 times. What are they getting out of it? Nothing! Say you are going to build up your bank account. If you put in a penny a day, it's going take a long while. It's the same with exercise--the more you put into it the more you take out.”

People Ifs Long Five Keys Exercise Picks Weight Accounts Handle Pounds Where You Are Up To You Pennies Bank Accounts Where You Are Going

Author:Jack LaLanne

“I decided to pick the diet that I thought would maximize my chances of long-term survival.”

Long Term Chance Survival Picks Decided Diets Long Term Vegetarian Vegan

Author:Al Gore

“I don't care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting.”

Ifs Long Care Fall Picks Gun Determination Don't Care Shooting I Don't Care Anarchy Heresy

Author:Che Guevara

“The writer crafts their ideal world. In my world, everyone has really long conversations or just picks apart pop culture to death and everyone talks in monologue.”

World Long Culture Conversation Picks Ideals Pops Crafts Pop Culture Monologues Really Long Ideal World Long Conversations

Author:Kevin Smith

“My opinion has always been this, that you ought to never give up as long as you live, even though they have stolen everything from you. If nothing else, you can always call the air you breath your own, or at any rate you can claim that you have it on loan. Yes, lass, last night I ate stolen bread and left my son among men who are going to use pick-handles on the authorities, so I thought I might just as well look you up this morning.”

Ifs Men Giving Wells Looks Long Use Might Lasts Night Left Opinion Morning Air Son Ought Giving Up Authority Picks Claims Breaths Rate Handle Bread My Son Stolen Never Giving Up Last Night Loan

Author:Halldór Laxness

“If you stay half-alert, you can pick the spectacular performers right from your place of business or out of the neighborhood shopping mall, and long before Wall Street discovers them.”

Ifs Long Half Streets Wall Picks Neighborhood Performers Shopping Spectacular Malls

Author:Thomas Rowe Price, Jr.

“I'm not someone who enjoys long talks, long rehearsals. I'm very technical: I tell my actors, you come in, you sit down, you pick up a coffee, you look here, you say the line. We try it with the cameras rolling, and if it doesn't work, we adjust it until it does. It's very simple.”

Ifs Trying Looks Long Doe Actors Enjoy Lines Simple Picks Cameras Coffee Rolling Rehearsal

Author:Michael Haneke

“Industriousness and conscientiousness are often at odds, because industriousness wants to pick the still sour fruit from the tree,while conscientiousness lets it hang there too long, until it falls and bruises.”

Want Long Stills Fall Tree Picks Fruit Odds Sour Bruises Conscientiousness

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“As long as judges tinker with the Constitution to 'do what the people want,' instead of what the document actually commands, politicians who pick and confirm new federal judges will naturally want only those who agree with them politically.”

People Want Long Law Politics Justice Judging Politician Picks Constitution Agree Lawyer Command Documents Melting Tinkering Federal Judges

Author:Antonin Scalia

“The irrepressible spirit that made his playing seem like good conversation is the Rubinstein legacy for pianists, if they can pick up their heads from the keyboard long enough to claim it.”

Ifs Long Art Made Enough Seems Spirit Conversation Picks Claims Legacy Keyboards Pianist Good Conversation Irrepressible

Author:Donal Henahan

“I grew up in a tough neighborhood where a lot of kids were older than me. The older kids decided to pick me on me starting when I was about 6 and it didn't take me long to take a stand for myself.”

Long Kids Grew Grew Up Picks Tough Decided Starting Neighborhood Take Me Pick Me

Author:Bo Jackson

“I try to pick music for a diner that doesnt involve a lot of lyrics, so you're not paying attention to that. As long as it doesnt dominate the party, it should be more atmosphere music. When I'm by myself, I never play music.”

Should Trying Long Play Party Attention Picks Pay Attention Atmosphere Diners

Author:Amy Sedaris

“Well, right now I'm not dead. But when I am, it's like...I don't know, I guess it's like being inside a book that nobody's reading. [...] An old one. It's up on a library shelf, so you're safe and everything, but the book hasn't been checked out for a long, long time. All you can do is wait. Just hope somebody'll pick it up and start reading.”

Knows Wells Long Book Reading Waiting Can Do Right Now Safe Long Time Picks Library Shelves

Book:The Things They Carried: A Work of Fiction

Source: The Things They Carried: A Work of Fiction

“When I auditioned actors I never make them act. I choose a long symphony, then I tell them to sit down and I play the symphony for them. Then I sit and I look at them. I always pick a piece of music that has up and downs, very dramatic parts, very quiet parts and really sensitive parts so that it can produce different emotions.”

Looks Long Different Play Actors Emotion Pieces Produce Quiet Picks Down And Sensitive Dramatic Symphony Ups & Downs Different Emotions

Author:Pirjo Honkasalo

“The blacks have their parties, hustle a little liquor, get some things together, and I used to play for those peoples. They'd come get me on time, but they wouldn't bring me back on time... Done picked cotton all day, play all night long, then pick cotton all day the next day before I could get a chance to sleep.”

Littles Long Done Play Together Used Night Next Chance Sleep Party Picks Next Day All Night Liquor Hustle Cotton

Author:Muddy Waters

“I don't know how much things have changed. You still need to be able to run the ball, pick up blitzes and catch the ball out of the backfield. Perhaps you need a running back to do a little bit more or be more versatile today but that is a good thing. People say we get hurt and don't last as long, but it's still an important position and you need everyone in the backfield to be able to contribute.”

People Knows Needs Littles Long Stills Important Running Today Able Lasts Bits Hurt Know How Position Changed Little Bit Picks Balls Good Things Things Have Changed Versatile Running Back

Author:Giovani Bernard

“Men are expendable; women and children are not. A tribe or a nation can lose a high percentage of its men and still pick up the pieces and go on ... as long as the women and children are saved.”

Men Children Long Stills Nations Loses Pieces Goes On Picks Saved Tribes Percentages Expendables

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“My own personal tastes don't really have an effect on whether song is a parody target or not. But having said that, I try to pick songs that I actually like because I realize that I have to live with these songs for a long time, from when I'm working on them in the studio to possibly playing them onstage for the rest of my life. So I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.”

Knows Trying Long Said Song Realizing My Own Crazy Effects Taste Long Time Picks Studios Target Parody Drive Me Crazy Personal Taste

Author:Al Yankovic

“I can watch anybody all day long if they're really doing what they're doing. I have a fascination with human behavior, watching people talk, when they pick at their face or how they hold their hand or if they're listening to you, if they're not listening to you.”

People Ifs Humans Long I Can Hands Faces Watches Listening Behavior Picks Human Behavior Fascination

Author:Scoot McNairy

“When I say, 'I can't stay long, I'm in-between meals,' that plays differently on the radio than it does in person. So I have to pick material that works because the words are funny, not just because of the images.”

Persons Long Doe I Can Play Materials Picks Radio Meals

Author:Louie Anderson

“Investors need to pick their poison: Either make more money when times are good and have a really ugly year every so often, or protect on the downside and don't be at the party so long when things are good.”

Needs Years Long Party Protect Picks Ugly Poison Investors More Money

Author:Seth Klarman

“What can Americans learn from the Olympics spectacle? According to the IMF, China will succeed America as the dominant economic power in the course of the next presidential term, so Howard Fineman, editorial director of the Huffington Post and MSNBC mainstay, was anxious to pick up tips. 'Brits long ago lost their empire,' he tweeted, 'but overall show us how to lose global power gracefully.' So there's that.”

Long Shows America Courses Next Lost Term Loses Economic Succeed Directors Picks China Posts Presidential Empires Anxious Long Ago Olympics Dominant Editorials Economic Power Brits Imf

Author:Mark Steyn

“I love to believe that there's one god but there's many different religions so there's just the question of which long distance company you pick.”

Believe Long Different Company Picks Distance Long Distance Different Religions

Author:Adam Ferrara

“I used to play the drums. When I was 11 I got my first professional job, I played drums in a cabary and played Elvis and stuff, I used to play left handed actually. Then I started to pick up the guitar when I was around 15, but I played the drums for a long time.”

Firsts Long Play Jobs Used Left Stuff Long Time Picks Guitar Left Handed

Author:Francis Dunnery

“As an activist, you gotta pick something that's particularly interesting to you and go for it - because there's no shortage of things to do. And it's sort of a long-term commitment. Activism is for life.”

Long Term Interesting Picks Commitment Activism Things To Do Long Term Activist Shortage

Author:Patrick Califia

“I'm trying to play guitar every day. I think I have a gift, and I've not been nurturing it for a long time. So I'm trying to pick it back up.”

Thinking Trying Long Play Long Time Picks Guitar Nurturing

Author:Bucky Pope

“It's the luxury of time that lets me in some ways now spoil myself. I get my workout in every day. I get a good, long sleep every day. I won't say they're guilty pleasures. When I first left Microsoft, I would say I spent the better part of a year saying, "OK, how do I get as busy and crazy and manic as I was at Microsoft?" Since then I said, "No, I'll make a bigger contribution in this phase of my life by being able to pick and choose, not being so manic, having time to step back, a little more time for what I'll call discernment rather than just activity."”

“I haven't had a chance to pick up a good book in a long time, because I've been either reading scripts or learning them or writing them. And so, by the time the day is done, I usually just want to click on The Bachelor and fall asleep. But I gravitate toward biographies and things like that.”

Want Writing Long Book Done Fall Reading Chance Havens Long Time Picks Scripts Biographies Good Book Clicks Bachelors

Author:Justin Theroux

“You learn something new from every player. No player is the same, so I'm definitely trying to pick up as much as I can from the guys ahead of me and from the guys who have been in the league for a long time.”

Trying Long Has Beens I Can Guy Player Long Time Picks League Something New

Author:Justin Cole

“The government's ability to select scientists and pick things that are fairly strange, because politicians don't like failures. They're only in office a short term, and many of these things take a long time.”

Long Government Term Ability Strange Politician Office Long Time Picks Scientist Short Term Select

Author:Bill Gates

“I love the South. Although I grew up primarily in Memphis, my family moved around a ton when I was a kid. I guess I never stayed in one place long enough to pick up the accent, but I definitely identify as a Southerner.”

Long Enough Kids Grew Grew Up Picks My Family Moved South Accents Southerner Memphis

Author:Chris Hardwick

“Kati with an I was a New York Times Critics' Pick and I was really happy that it got a run uptown in Harlem at the Maysles Cinema, which is a great space but isn't necessarily the most well attended for a week-long screening.”

Wells Long Running Space Week New York Picks Critics Cinema New York Times Really Happy Screening Harlem Uptown

Author:Robert Greene

“What's more vulnerable than being naked, especially when you're out in the cold on the street? I agreed to it as long as I could pick the towel, and I picked the smallest, most floral towel I could find.”

Long Streets Cold Picks Naked Vulnerable Smallest Towels

Author:Josh Hartnett

“The grounds on which golf is played are called links, being the barren sandy soil from which the sea has retired in recent geological times. In their natural state links are covered with long, rank bent grass and gorse. Links are too barren for cultivation: but sheep, rabbits, geese and professionals pick up a precarious livelihood on them.”

Long States Natural Sea Picks Golf Grass Soil Links Covered Sheep Bent Retired Rabbits Geese Barren Livelihood Cultivation Precarious Sandy Geological Time

Author:Charles Walter Simpson

“I work in theology and Christian books all day long, when Im studying, so its just kind of nice to pick up something different. The books that have influenced me, theres not just one book that was a watershed, although Mere Christianity was as much as any.”

Kind Long Book Different Christian Christianity Study Nice Picks Mere Theology Just One Watersheds

Author:Max Lucado

“You pick up very well-known books on Lincoln [and] you will find almost no reference to his long-term belief in colonization. Why? Because it doesn't fit the image of the Great Emancipator. It doesn't fit the retrospective view we want to have of Lincoln as the man who was the moralist in politics, who came into office committed to ending slavery and waited to sign this document.”

Men Want Wells Long Book Belief Term Views Known He Man Fit Office Picks Slavery Committed Long Term Documents Well Known Colonization Moralist Retrospective Ending Slavery

Author:Eric Foner

“You have to pick your places to "step up" and you have you pick your spots. If you're just going to run out there, and, just be what/who you want to be, then you won't be that long.”

Ifs Want Long Running Steps Picks Spots Step Up

Author:Steve Harvey

“I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.”

Source: Gone with the wind

“To be sure, if you watch CNBC all day long you'll pick up some interesting news about particular companies and the economy as a whole. Unfortunately, to get to the useful information, you have to wade through reams of useless stuff, with little guidance on how to distinguish between the two.”

Ifs Littles Long Two Whole Stuff Interesting Company Watches Economy Information Particular News Picks Useless Guidance Wade Some Interesting Useful Information Useless Stuff

Author:James Surowiecki

“a little bird moves a mountain of sand one grain at a time it picks up one grain every million years and when the mountain has been moved the bird puts it all back again and that's how long eternity is and that's a very long time to be dead”

Years Littles Long Has Beens Moving Millions Mountain Long Time Bird Picks Eternity Moved Sand Grain Back Again

Book:Before I Die

Source: Before I Die

“We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. but there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it.”

Long Life Is Dies Fall Lost Behinds Arms Picks March Shed Traveller Procession Arcadia

Book:Arcadia

Source: Arcadia

“I enjoy the presence of a woman in the house for brief periods of time. They fall into two categories: the organizers and the slobs. There’s probably a third category—the naggers, who try to get you to do things, but I’ve never run into one of those. Oddly, I have no preference regarding oganizers or slobs, as long as they don’t try to pick my clothes for me. Basically, all women are nurturers and healers, and all men are mental patients to varying degrees. It works fine if people stick to their fated roles. But nobody does.”

People Ifs Men Trying Long Doe Two Running Fall House Enjoy Roles Fine Periods Degrees Clothes Picks Thirds Sticks Patient Categories Preference Healer Organizer

Author:Nelson DeMille

“Reading is human contact, and the range of our human contacts is what makes us what we are. Just imagine you live the life of a long-distance truck driver. The books that you read are like the travelers you take into your cab. If you give lifts to people who are cultured and profound, you'll learn a lot from them. If you pick up fools, you'll turn into a fool yourself.”

People Ifs Giving Humans Long Book Turns Reading Imagine Fool Picks Distance Profound Contact Lifts Range Live Life Drivers Traveler Truck Long Distance Cab Truck Driver

Author:Victor Pelevin

“Agreed," I say. "It's going to be a long hour." "Maybe not that long," says Peeta." what was that you were saying just before the food arrived? Something about me ... no competition ... best thing that ever happened to you ... " " I don't remember that last part," I say, hoping it's too dim in here for the cameras to pick up my blush. " Oh, that's right. That's what I was thinking," he says " Scoot over, I'm freezing.”

Thinking Long Lasts Remember Hours Happened Picks Cameras Competition Best Things Peeta Freezing Long Hours

Author:Suzanne Collins

“Because they're probably long gone. Are you hurt?" Gabe asked with enough urgency that she realized he must have felt shiver in delayed reaction to the hole in the door. "No. No, I'm okay. What a about you? Are you hurt?" "Only if you count the fact that you damned near ripped off my plumbing groping around for my phone." She made a sound of exasperation. "Now? You pick now to become a comedian?" "It's all about timing," he whispered back.”

Ifs Long Made Enough Facts Felt Sound Hurt Gone Doors Picks Okay Phones Holes Reactions Comedian Timing Urgency Ripped Shiver Delayed Plumbing Exasperation

Author:Cindy Gerard

“For the past few years, I've been on a quest for a good old-fashioned date, the kind where the guy calls, makes the plans, picks you up in a car that's not his dad's or his other girlfriend's, and takes you somewhere that shows he put thought into what you might like, not what he might get off on like the latest how-many-naked-boobs-can-we-cram-into-this-movie-to-disguise-the-complete-lack-of-plot movie. I'm looking for the kind of date that starts with good conversation , has a sweet and satisfying middle, and ends with long, slow kisses and the dreamy feeling that you're walking on clouds.”

Source: The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned

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