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“My downtime tends to resemble my uptime. Weekends are workdays, but toned down. Over the whole weekend, I may have five meetings, as opposed to six on a weekday. I used to play piano for 30 minutes at night, but I had to pull that out of my schedule. I don't have time for nonwork stuff.”

May Play Whole Used Night Stuff Five Minutes Six Meetings Piano Weekend Schedules Downtime Weekdays

Author:Aaron Levie

“Craig Nelson who is an actor and is in a show called Coach in the United States. We began to do some improvisational stuff and we used to get laughs and things.”

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Author:Barry Levinson

“I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs.”

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Author:Barry Levinson

“I'm so used to swimming with the piranhas. And they're really not that bad.”

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Author:Brie Larson

“Swedish taxes are high, and we don't get as much as we used to for them. And our schools aren't so good.”

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Author:Camilla Lackberg

“I'm very much a believer that it's action that matters much more so than, you know, the flurry of political promises and statements and slogans that are used during political campaigns.”

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Author:Christine Lagarde

“A college football star, by his senior year, is used to running out there with 110,000 people going nuts. They feel comfortable in that environment. To me, a set feels like that. The one thing that I do know is that, as long as I'm prepared, I know this environment and this world.”

People Knows World Feels Years Long Running Used Stars Environment One Thing This World Football College Comfortable Prepared Nuts Senior College Football Senior Year

Author:Donal Logue

“Since hydrogen is a constituent of most of our electrolytic solvents, the definition of an acid or base as a substance which gives up or takes up hydrogen ion would be more general than the one we used before, but it would not be universal.”

Giving Would Be Used Giving Up Universal Definitions Substance Acid Constituents Hydrogen Ions

Author:Gilbert N. Lewis

“We may say that a basic substance is one which has a lone pair of electrons which may be used to complete the stable group of another atom, and that an acid is one which can employ a lone pair from another molecule in completing the stable group of one of its own atoms.”

May Used Groups Substance Pairs Atoms Stable Acid Molecules Lone Electrons Completing

Author:Gilbert N. Lewis

“I believe that the profits will come from the quality of your creative products. Since the beginning, I've always wanted to develop a self-feeding circle of creative productions: the positive financial returns from one show would be used to develop and create a new show, and so on.”

Believe Self Shows Would Be Wanted Used I Believe Quality Creative Products Return Financial Profit Productions Circles Feeding

Author:Guy Laliberte

“Wayne's World' is my all time favorite comedy. I used to watch it on VHS on repeat with my brother when I was ten years old.”

World Years Used Watches Comedy Brother Ten All Time My Brother Repeats Wayne All Time Favorite

Author:James Lafferty

“Every now and then, I strike something that just goes click, you know, in my head. As Gertrude Stein used to say, it rings the bell, and I feel, this is great.”

Knows Feels Used Strikes Rings Bells Now And Then Clicks Gertrude

Author:James Laughlin

“I used to audition like crazy - I would go on a hundred before I got anything. It took me a long time to get any jobs at all. It was hard until I booked 'Galaxy Quest,' and then it started to get easier.”

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Author:Missi Pyle

“My mom used to make my costumes when I was little; she sews a lot. One year, I was a bride and I had a big wedding dress and a bouquet. Another year I was a medieval princess with a long teal dress and a veil. It was a little extravagant, but it was cute!”

Years Littles Long Bigs Used Mom Dresses My Mom Cute Princess Costumes Veils Medieval Brides Extravagant Bouquets Another Year Wedding Dress

Author:Sasha Pieterse

“Your hair tends to get used to the product you use. Every month or so I change it out.”

Use Used Products Hair Months

Author:Sasha Pieterse

“I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.”

Used Parent Views Used To Be Dysfunctional Family

Author:Tamora Pierce

“I applied a lot of the same principles I used in hockey into my acting. I might have had some naive ambitions of making the NHL, but thank God, playing hockey gave me a good foundation for everything else.”

Might Used Acting Principles Ambition Foundation Hockey Thank God Naive Nhl Playing Hockey

Author:Vincent Piazza

“I used to get my hair dyed at a place called Big Hair. It cost $15. They just used straight bleach, so my hair was the color of white lined paper, and my eyebrows looked like they were done with a thick black marker.”

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Author:Amy Poehler

“Well, I've had a long standing relationship with Gatorade and they've been very, very good to me. And I believe in their products, I really do. I've used them for many, many years.”

Years Believe Wells Long Used I Believe Products Standing Very Good I Believe In Gatorade

Author:Bill Parcells

“I'm reading more than ever. I used to find it tedious, but now it's like my little friend - it takes my mind off things.”

Mind Littles Used Reading Tedious Reading More

Author:Billie Piper

“It used to be that if you had a pretty good record, you could stop by a station in Little Rock or Atlanta and let the DJ listen to it. No way something like that can happen now.”

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Author:Charley Pride

“I'm lucky to have parents who used to be bodybuilders! They help me keep fit by going to the gym and training with me. I'm also addicted to Cardio Barre classes and hiking.”

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Author:Janel Parrish

“When you look at some of the most respected actors there are and the crap that they're in... it didn't used to be that way.”

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Author:Jason Patric

“Nothing scares me, because I used to think I was indestructible. Now I know I'm indestructible, not to mention my spine is indestructible. It's all titanium.”

Thinking Knows Used Scare Spine Indestructible

Author:Jason Priestley

“My mom and I used to listen to records, read, and take train rides across the country in the summer. It was a very chill life. She didn't expose me to anything that was ahead of my development, but she expected me to adjust to her world - she did not expect to adjust to mine.”

World Country Used Records Mines Mom Development Summer Train My Mom Expected Chill

Author:Martha Plimpton

“I was like a total cliched '80s child. I had Barbies, obviously, as well as My Little Ponies and Cabbage Patch Kids, but I used to destroy them. I used to draw all over their faces and cut off their hair.”

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Author:Natalie Portman

“I am used to controversies.”

Used Controversy

Author:Sharad Pawar

“The movie industry used to be completely accessible. We all knew people in it, and nobody made a big fuss.”

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Author:Stefanie Powers

“I used to describe myself as a comic novelist, but my concerns seem to have darkened over the past few years.”

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Author:Tom Perrotta

“I'm used to adapting my novels for feature film - it can be challenging to cut and compress three or four hundred pages into two hours of dramatic action.”

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Author:Tom Perrotta

“There came a moment in my life when I realized that I had stepped into another part of my life. I used to walk into a room full of people and think, do they like me? And one day I walk in and I thought, do I like them?”

People Thinking Moments Used Walks Rooms One Day I Realized Like Me

Author:Victoria Principal

“There's a lot of processed food in America and I know that can make some tourists who're used to fresh food feel sick.”

Knows Feels America Used Sick Tourists Fresh Food Processed Food

Author:Wolfgang Puck

“There will come a day when the phone doesn't ring as much as it used to.”

Used Phones Rings

Author:Aidan Quinn

“I've gotten used to the point where I'm so used to being sweaty! I like to wear less makeup and be tougher!”

Used Makeup

Author:Maggie Q

“I'm light skinned, and I used to lean on that because that's something a lot of black people pride themselves on, and it's weird.”

People Light Used Black Pride Black People

Author:Chance the Rapper

“I don't really have control over my direct impression on people anymore. I used to be the person putting my CD in people's hands. But I'm kind of a mainstream artist now. Not by choice.”

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Author:Chance the Rapper

“People wanna say that they're part Native American or mixed, or anything other than black. We're raised to believe that there's something better about not being fully black, something eccentric about it. I'm saying I used to tell girls that I was mixed, which is a bold-faced lie!”

People Believe Used Lying Girl Black Raised Native Native American Something Better Eccentric Tell A Girl

Author:Chance the Rapper

“I'm very stodgy. I'm always looking at old photos of California and Los Angeles, knowing that what I'm looking at is now full of houses. There used to be vacant lots in Los Angeles, now all taken up by three-storey boxes - it's all getting infilled.”

Used Three House Knowing Taken Boxes Used To Be California Los Angeles Vacant

Author:Edward Ruscha

“Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before.”

Film Used Subjects Havens Civilization Shapes Western Western Civilization

Author:Eric Rohmer

“I used to think that: whenever I heard that someone had taken 10 years to write a novel, I'd think it must be a big, serious book. Now I think, 'No - it took you one year to write, and nine years to sit around eating Kit Kats.”

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Author:Ian Rankin

“Profit is the sole criterion used by the establishment to evaluate economic activity. From the rat race to lame ducks. The vocabulary in vogue is a give-away. It's more reminiscent of a human menagerie than human society.”

Giving Humans Used Race Economic Activity Profit Establishment Ducks Sole Rats Vocabulary Criteria Evaluate Human Society Lame Vogue Rat Race Menagerie

Author:Jimmy Reid

“My school friends are really understanding and still want to hang out with me. Ever since I was in sixth grade, I was at the gym every day to work out while my friends were getting their nails done or going to the mall. I used to feel left out, but I don't anymore.”

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Author:Aly Raisman

“I was shocked to find that there were actually climate scientists who wouldn't share the raw data, but would only share their conclusions in summary graphs that were used to prove their various theories about planet warming. In fact I began to smell something really bad, and the worse that smell got, the deeper I looked.”

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Author:Burt Rutan

“People used to think that private equity was basically just a compensation scheme, but it is much more about making companies more efficient.”

People Thinking Used Company Efficient Schemes Equity Compensation Private Equity

Author:David Rubenstein

“It's the weird thing Eton does - you're at school next to lords and earls and, in my case, Prince William, so you end up being used to dealing with those sorts of people.”

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Author:Eddie Redmayne

“There are individuals who are working very hard to promote fear and antagonism towards Islam and Muslims in this country. It's fueled, in part, by the first African-American president that we have. Obama's father was a Muslim and people have used this to arouse hostility against him.”

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Author:Feisal Abdul Rauf

“Australians are very provincial in many ways. If they feel that you've used them as a stepping stone to bigger things, they resent it.”

Ifs Way Feels Used Stones Bigger Resent Stepping Stones

Author:Graham Russell

“I'm not politically motivated. I used to be - passionately. I used to be very Left wing. Then I went very Right wing, and now I rest somewhere in the middle.”

Used Left Middle Wings Used To Be Motivated Right Wing Left Wing

Author:Guy Ritchie

“At Microsoft, the magic of software is used to take on very interesting challenges.”

Used Challenges Interesting Magic Software Very Interesting Microsoft

Author:Jeff Raikes

“I used to get on a stove wood pile at 5-6 years old and I would have a piece of stove wood and kindling bark as a pick, and I was a star.”

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Author:Jerry Reed

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