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“I always like to incorporate one or two chic accessories that contrast with the more gritty look of my daily uniform: a leather jacket and jeans.”

Looks Two Contrast Uniforms Jeans Jackets Leather Accessories Chic Leather Jackets

Author:Johan Lindeberg

“Creativity is a spark. It can be excruciating when we're rubbing two rocks together and getting nothing. And it can be intensely satisfying when the flame catches and a new idea sweeps around the world.”

World Two Ideas Together Creativity Rocks Around The World Flames Sparks Satisfying New Ideas

Author:Jonah Lehrer

“I want to live a good life and pay my taxes. 'The Killing' was a blessing. It was two wonderful years. But I had reached a point in my life, especially with a young son, that I was no longer willing to compromise my life for the sake of a paycheque. I was no longer willing to move where the tax credits are strong.”

Want Years Two Moving Young Strong Pay Wonderful Willing Son Blessing Taxes Killing Sake Credit Compromise Good Life Young Sons

Author:Kristin Lehman

“Some of you may know my story: How for nineteen years, I worked as a manager for a tire plant in Alabama. And some of you may have lived a similar story: After nearly two decades of hard, proud work, I found out that I was making significantly less money than the men who were doing the same work as me.”

Knows Men Years May Two Hard Stories Found He Man Proud Plant Decades Managers Tire Alabama Nineteen

Author:Lilly Ledbetter

“If we compare the two, Facebook is currently a superior place to market a product like Slide. Twitter is more like a general distribution agent. It's like broadcast radio.”

Ifs Two Products Radio Superiors Agents Compare Distribution Slides

Author:Max Levchin

“Every time a director calls me and says, 'If you practice a lot in two months, can you be an American?' And I always tell them, 'Well, maybe but I'm French. So it's going to be hard to be someone else.'”

Ifs Wells Two Hard Practice Months Directors Call Me Two Months

Author:Melanie Laurent

“I had a terrible motorcycle accident (in the 1970s), in San Francisco as matter of fact. Doing a picture called... oh, this is terrible. It's a very well-known film and I can't remember the name. That's what happens when you get older... I fell off a bridge in San Francisco and was laid up for two years.”

Years Wells I Can Two Matter Facts Happens Remember Film Names Known Terrible Accidents Bridges Two Years Well Known San Francisco Motorcycle Matter Of Fact

Author:William Lucking

“I was asked to be in the last two 'Harry Potter' films and I couldn't do it because I was busy filming 'Grey's Anatomy.”

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Author:Kevin McKidd

“I've never seen a schedule where you just go in two hours almost every day of the week and then all day on one day. Then you shoot it at night with an audience and you're out of there.”

Two Night Hours Audience Week One Day Majors Schedules Days Of The Week

Author:Lee Majors

“You can divide my life into two.”

Two Divides

Author:Lord Mountbatten

“On TV, stories and events are finalized in 30 or 60 minutes, or neatly tied up after a season or two. The best stories are the ones that force us to come to our own conclusions and to explain why we believe in our conclusions.”

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Author:Lurlene McDaniel

“At the same time, I think books create a sort of network in the reader's mind, with one book reinforcing another. Some books form relationships. Other books stand in opposition. No two writers or readers have the same pattern of interaction.”

Thinking Mind Two Book Form Reader Patterns Opposition Interaction

Author:Margaret Mahy

“I'm home about two days a month, and on those I have to pack.”

Two Home Months Packs Two Days

Author:Mary Ann Mobley

“I don't find acting and directing schizophrenic, in any way. I find it completely easy to move between the two.”

Way Two Moving Easy Acting Schizophrenic

Author:Jodie Foster

“The process depends on the situation, and I don't think there are any two songs that have gone exactly the same way... well, actually, that's not true.”

Thinking Way Wells Two Song Process Situation Gone Depends

Author:Michael McKean

“If I make two films in a year, they'll be different. This is my style - I can't have just one way.”

Ifs Way Years I Can Two Different Film Style One Way Just One

Author:Mohsen Makhmalbaf

“To illustrate to the Indians the advantages the white race had in the telephone I divided a body of warriors from Sitting Bull's camp into two parties and had them talk to each other over the telephone line.”

Two Body Lines White Party Race Sitting Advantage Warrior Divided Camps Telephones Bulls One Line White Race

Author:Nelson A. Miles

“The nature of our two main political parties has changed in the United States.”

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Author:Roger Mahony

“I receive huge support from Irish and British sports fans alike and it is greatly appreciated. Likewise I feel I have a great affinity with the American sports fans. I play most of my golf in the U.S. nowadays and I am incredibly proud to have won the U.S. Open and U.S. PGA Championship in the last two years.”

Feels Years Two Play Lasts Sports Support Fans Huge Proud Golf British Two Years Championship Appreciated Affinity Sports Fan

Author:Rory McIlroy

“I slowly began making a few photos with animals over the years, and I liked how people reacted to them. When I would have the animals on set, I'd notice the way the models would interact with them and there was so much true emotion that you rarely see between two human beings.”

People Way Years Humans Two Human Beings Animal Emotion Models True Emotions

Author:Ryan McGinley

“I have a full life: I have two amazing kids, I have great friends, great family. And right now, that's plenty for me to manage. A new relationship just seems like way too much work.”

Way Two Seems Kids Too Much Right Now Manage Plenty Great Friend Full Life New Relationship Great Family Too Much Work

Author:Sarah McLachlan

“I love that you can have the language between the two worlds of technology and fashion, because I don't think that many designers get to do that.”

Thinking World Two Language Technology Fashion Designer Two Worlds

Author:Stella McCartney

“If I were to continue on with 'The Host,' which is a possibility, there are characters and stories that could continue... If I went ahead with that, it would be two more... Next would be 'The Soul,' and then 'The Seeker.”

Ifs Two Soul Character Stories Would Be Next Possibility Host Seekers

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“If I make two movies my entire life, and they're two movies that - whether they make a lot of money or two people go to see them - they speak of me, then I consider them incredibly successful. I don't need to be Steven Spielberg.”

People Ifs Needs Two Speak Successful Lots Of Money

Author:Jodie Foster

“I have to strive to go two steps forward and realize that, sometimes, there will be one step back.”

Two Sometimes Realizing Steps Strive Steps Forward

Author:Victoria Moran

“On the issue of abortion, I'm ever on the fence, or, at most, an inch or two to either side.”

Two Sides Issues Abortion Inches Fence

Author:Victoria Moran

“Two years ago, if anyone had told me I'd be doing half the stuff I'm doing, I wouldn't have believed it.”

Ifs Years Two Stuff Half Years Ago Two Years Two Years Ago

Author:Zayn Malik

“Success can be obviously a two way street.”

Way Two Streets Two Ways Two Way Street

Author:Chris Noth

“Phantom' was for me an interesting technique of telling the story. You have one voice that it is in the present telling what is happening, and then there's one voice from the past that's also driving the story forward. And you know that the two story lines will meet eventually.”

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Author:Jo Nesbo

“I went to the University/Resident Theatre Association auditions. Deans come and watch you in this theater. You have three minutes, and you have to do two contrasting monologues - at that time, this is 2003 - one classical and one contemporary.”

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Author:Kunal Nayyar

“I'm helping launch the new Milky Way Chocolate Ice Cream Bar. I play an astrophysicist on television, and the name of the bar is Milky Way, so put two and two together, and here I am.”

Way Two Play Helping Together Names Television Bars Ice Chocolate Cream Ice Cream Here I Am Milky Way Chocolate Ice Cream

Author:Kunal Nayyar

“I look for the humanity in people, however big the politics or oppressive the situation may be, whether it's subsumed within a human being or between two human beings. I want to help us hold a mirror to ourselves.”

People Want Humans Looks May Two Helping Bigs Humanity Human Beings Situation Mirrors

Author:Mira Nair

“I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two.”

Two Architect

Author:Oscar Niemeyer

“In addition to a soaring stock market, 6.6 million jobs have been created since tax relief measures went into effect in 2003. Our deficit situation has also improved as tax revenues have increased at double-digit rates over the past two years.”

Years Has Beens Two Jobs Past Situation Millions Effects Taxes Rate Relief Two Years Soar Revenue Deficit Over The Past

Author:Randy Neugebauer

“Until I was four years old I lived in the house of my paternal grandfather, about two miles from the pretty little village of Wallace, at the mouth of the river of that name.”

Years Littles Two House Names Four Mouths Rivers Miles Village Four Years Grandfather

Book:The reminiscences of an astronomer

Source: The reminiscences of an astronomer

“I pretty much live about 10 minutes from my office. I have two kids, and I have about 8 projects that I'm working on, so I basically just get up and go to work, and go home every night and play with my kids, so I don't really know.”

Knows Two Play Home Kids Night Minutes Office Projects Get Up Every Night

Author:Bob Odenkirk

“And at NYU, I went to the Atlantic Theater Company, and they have two main points. One of them is to always be active in something instead of just feeling it. And the other is figuring out your character.”

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Author:Elizabeth Olsen

“I was embarrassed that I even wanted to become an actress because coming from L.A., with two older sisters in the business and a mom who had been a ballet dancer, it was such a cliche.”

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Author:Elizabeth Olsen

“There was a lot of light and a lot of rumbling and vibration, especially the first minute or minute-and-a-half. And then after about two minutes, when the solid rocket boosters separated, the ride got a lot smoother.”

Firsts Two Light Half Minutes Vibrations Rockets

Author:Ellen Ochoa

“In Australia I was seen as somebody who did only very modern, contemporary stuff. Then as soon as I went overseas I did two period pieces so it was like, 'When are you going to get out of the corsets?' And I was thinking I just got into them!”

Thinking Two Stuff Pieces Modern Periods Contemporary Australia Corsets

Author:Frances O'Connor

“I worry that some politicians still think we are living in the 1950s where the man is the main breadwinner and the woman works for pin money. Actually, most families where there are two parents depend on two incomes to get by.”

Thinking Men Stills Two Parent Worry He Man Depends Politician Income Pins Breadwinner

Author:Frances O'Grady

“My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite poles of ambiguity.”

Years Two Country Hundred Opposites Twenties Opening Observation Japan Splits Ambiguity Present Day Two Opposites Modernisation

Author:Kenzaburo Oe

“Andrew Jackson was the first president to claim that the desires of the public overrode Congress's constitutional prerogatives. Virtually every president since Jackson has claimed the mantle, even while lacking two ingredients of an electoral mandate: a landslide victory and a specific agenda.”

Firsts Two Desire President Victory Claims Congress Agendas Ingredients Lacking Mandates Andrew Prerogative Landslides

Author:Ron Fournier

“I am the indoctrinated child of two lapsed Irish Catholics. Which is to say: I am not religious.”

Children Two Religious Catholic

Book:The Long Goodbye: A Memoir

Source: The Long Goodbye: A Memoir

“For years I drove a big Ford F250 pickup. That was my ride because two-thirds of my work was wood work, and I'm always driving up to Northern California, where I harvest salvaged trees.”

Years Two Bigs Tree Thirds Woods Driving California Harvest Pickups Northern California

Author:Nick Offerman

“Then all this started to pick up because I signed with ForeFront when I was in seventh grade. It got a lot busier and I was traveling a lot and it wasn't making sense. Especially at a private school, you miss two days, and you get so behind.”

Two School Behinds Missing Picks Make Sense Grades Two Days Private School Seventh Grade Busier

Author:Stacie Orrico

“In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year.”

Years Two Moving Space Mess Grades

Author:Tea Obreht

“I have two concerns with my work: having good things to act, and getting paid. In that order. Although if you're not getting paid well, that order can change. But that's what I'm concerned about. Good scenes. Decent money.”

Ifs Wells Two Order Scene Concern Concerned Paid Good Things Decent

Author:Terry O'Quinn

“I'm not the best actor I can be, so I'm just working on it. I'm not the quickest reader in the world but when I get an acting book I can read it in two days.”

World I Can Two Book Actors Acting Reader Two Days I Can Read

Author:Evan Peters

“There's something that's sexy about a guy who has the strength to kill somebody, but is also vulnerable enough to be in love. It's just those two sides - like, I don't know why, but women for some reason aren't attracted to normal guys, like, guys who are in between.”

Knows Two Reason Enough Guy Sides Normal Sexy Vulnerable Two Sides

Author:Evan Peters

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