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I always listen to a lot of different music when I am working on a project.
Author:
Bill Wyman
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I'm more concerned with getting them to find and strengthen their original voice as writers rather than imposing my own subjective tastes, judgements or sensibility on the project.
Author:
Douglas Wood
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God would have to beam into me what I was doing and what the album actually sounded like because usually when I start a project like that, I already know what the album sounds like before I start it.
Author:
Kip Winger
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It is important to consider whether the sample size selected by the Environmental Genome Project will provide sufficient power to discover most alleles relevant to gene-environment interactions.
Author:
Samuel Wilson
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While the Environmental Genome Project does not seek to assign allele frequencies, we are aware of the importance of accurate allele frequency estimates for future epidemiologic studies and the large sample sizes such estimates will require.
Author:
Samuel Wilson
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One of the responsibilities faced by the Environmental Genome Project is to provide the science base upon which society can make better informed risk management decisions.
Author:
Samuel Wilson
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To think that we as a publisher (i.e. people who have never actually MADE a game) can have a realistic impact on a project that a team of experts is slaving away on full time for 2 years is a bit arrogant.
Author:
Mike Wilson
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In two days, it's hard to to get the quality you would normally want for a design project.
Author:
Douglas Wilson
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I face every project the same way - do it right and give 110%. 100% isn't good enough.
Author:
Debra Wilson
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I'd love to have another film to go on to. I'm in the mood to work. But I have to be patient, you know, to find that particular kind of project. Occasionally I'll write one myself if I can summon up the energy.
Author:
Peter Weir
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Love. It isn't very popular in technical circles to say a lot of mushy stuff about love, but frankly it's a very very important part of what holds our project together.
Author:
Jimmy Wales
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I read numerous books - loads in fact - and, as I always do when recording a historical project, immersed myself into the subject matter. I spent many hours at Henry's old homes, such as Hampton Court, and visiting the Tower of London. I read no other books during that period.
Author:
Rick Wakeman
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Eventually, the state's funding covered only the stages leading to presenting a film project to potential funding bodies. It was enough to produce a script, indicate casting and put together a budget to present it all, but nothing beyond that.
Author:
Andrzej Wajda
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One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do it yourself project.
Author:
Denis Waitley
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I was hired to do this one great script called 'Cap'n Ricky' and that project is up in the air at the moment.
Author:
David Wain
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It doesn't matter to me if it has a surprise ending or not. I usually go for the material or the project.
Author:
Donnie Wahlberg
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There's a science fiction project we really want to make, but it's very expensive. Hopefully it will happen.
Author:
Larry Wachowski
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When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.
Author:
Vernor Vinge
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I just initiated the project where I write music for somebody else to write the lyrics and also for the orchestra to perform. I've just initiated the project. That leads the project into creating an independent label outside of game music.
Author:
Nobuo Uematsu
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I'm not interested in wasting money on a project.
Author:
Stanley Tucci
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The constraints of melodrama can be a great blessing, because they demand that all the characters involved - as absurd and extreme as they may initially seem - must stay utterly rooted in their own reality, or the whole project collapses.
Author:
Stanley Tucci
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I'm actually developing a project so that I can have a lead.
Author:
Rachel True
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Chefs, as a whole, say yes to any project, fundraiser, or tasting because they have such a generous spirit.
Author:
Charlie Trotter
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I was part of a group that had a cinema club so every week we would project two or three movies on 16 or 35mm.
Author:
Guillermo Toro
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Every time you do a project, you learn something new.
Author:
Justin Timberlake
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Those worship songs on the Christmas project will air on PBS television. That's highly unusual.
Author:
John Tesh
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I think innocence is something that adults project upon children that's not really there.
Author:
Donna Tartt
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When a project has an ample budget, I am interested now in using bigger units of materials.
Author:
Yoshio Taniguchi
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I work hard. The staff and crew see how much energy I put into this project, and it makes them step up.
Author:
Wanda Sykes
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Whenever you do an animated project or a voice-over project it's inevitable that part of your personality comes into play.
Author:
Tara Strong
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And I'll never forget the first time I took the possibility to project sound every day for six or seven hours with special devices which were built for me.
Author:
Karlheinz Stockhausen
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Only the Russian Cultural Officer was interested in my project.
Author:
Wolfgang Staudte
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To middle-class parents, the project team may have seemed unfit for children, but it was exactly what I needed.
Author:
Willie Stargell
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I think that's become passe, but if you can surround yourself with a kind of monument to yourself and your family - a statement - and you can afford it, then that's a noble project.
Author:
Sylvester Stallone
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I have three adopted children with Phil, and for years I was fighting in court with him over being able to see my kids. I was always going back and forth to California, going to court, and I was never able to get a project going.
Author:
Ronnie Spector
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I had a dozen years to act before starting a family then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value.
Author:
Sissy Spacek
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I was raised in a Bronx public housing project, but studied at two of the nation's finest universities. I did work as an assistant district attorney, prosecuting violent crimes that devastate our communities.
Author:
Sonia Sotomayor
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I was offered one of the roles in a big project that shall remain nameless. I thought the whole thing encouraged violent sex crimes toward women. It made horrible, ghastly rape violence seem sexy. I just didn't want to sign my name to it.
Author:
Mira Sorvino
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Bush's war in Iraq has done untold damage to the United States. It has impaired our military power and undermined the morale of our armed forces. Our troops were trained to project overwhelming power. They were not trained for occupation duties.
Author:
George Soros
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Yes, I was hired by Universal because they needed a comedy director. They had seen Scandal and liked it. I saw an opportunity even in those comedies to begin my project of American films.
Author:
Douglas Sirk
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Throughout my career, if I have done anything, I have paid attention to every note and every word I sing - if I respect the song. If I cannot project this to a listener, I fail.
Author:
Frank Sinatra
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One of the things Mr. Kennedy taught me was that in laying out a new project, you shouldn't try to cope with every little problem.
Author:
Sargent Shriver
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What is needed is an all-out science project to get vehicles off of gasoline, rather than off of the earth.
Author:
Brad Sherman
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So everything turned out fine, and we were given the opportunity to go to Washington and be briefed on the project of man in space, and given the opportunity to choose whether we wanted to get involved or not.
Author:
Alan Shepard
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Everywhere you look, there is a charity or a project in school to get involved in. In eighth grade, there was this program called CJSF, California Junior Scholarship Foundation. We were involved in soup kitchens and toy drives, and your school can set up something like that. If your school doesn't have a program like that, set one up.
Author:
Lindsey Shaw
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For example, in my own State of Arizona, an Israeli scientist is working with an Arizona company on a demonstration project involving a very fast-growing algae which can be used to power a biomass energy plan.
Author:
John Shadegg
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It quite often happens that they attach a name to a project and it doesn't get all the financing it needs.
Author:
Dougray Scott
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The question of feasibility, the question of cost, the question of including partners elsewhere in the world, the question of the effect of this project on arms agreements - all these issues are in discussion.
Author:
Gerhard Schroder
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If you fall in love with somebody you're working with, fine, but wait till your project is over.
Author:
Liev Schreiber
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I think it is important to maintain a sense of self and confidence, not letting either falter for the sake of a particular part or project, no matter how great it might be.
Author:
Fred Savage
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The 'movement' is paramount, the concept of 'family' is the symbol we wish to project.
Author:
Juan Samaranch
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The players never think they project enough. In a hall that seats 3,300 people, it's a very scary thing to play so quietly that you can barely hear yourself.
Author:
Esa-Pekka Salonen
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
Author:
Walter Salles
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I often concentrate on the eyes and lips, they are great indicators of mood and feeling, and I find that I can project character into my portraits by bringing the viewer's attention to these areas.
Author:
Robert Ryan
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Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people share roughly 99% of their genes in common, that there are no races. This is silly.
Author:
J. Rushton
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I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.
Author:
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The second stream of material that is going to come out of this project is a programming environment and a set of programming tools where we really want to focus again on the needs of the newbie. This environment is going to have to be extremely user-friendly.
Author:
Guido Rossum
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There was a project at Lawrence Livermore National Labs where many years ago they went down this path for scripting and controlling very large numerical calculations.
Author:
Guido Rossum
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Our goal is to leverage what is already out in the field in terms of partners, but then hire in project management capability and a bit of technical capability.
Author:
Kevin Rollins
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My philosophy is, don't take no for an answer and be willing to sacrifice your entire project for freedom.
Author:
Tim Robbins
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It's certainly a lot more difficult to get a project made if you're talking about something progressive. That's just the nature of the industry.
Author:
Tim Robbins
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There's the concept that if I do this big budget project, then that will help me do the things I really want to do and bring more money to those films.
Author:
Giovanni Ribisi
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I appreciate the additional additives and preservatives that help sell a project, but I'm sticking to what works best for me. I gotta sell the album live on stage and make people believe in the songs.
Author:
Busta Rhymes
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During my participation in the Manhattan Project and subsequent research at Los Alamos, encompassing a period of fifteen years, I worked in the company of perhaps the greatest collection of scientific talent the world has ever known.
Author:
Frederick Reines
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I've done that quite often, but I've got to be quite honest... as much as you would want to only do one at a time, sometimes projects overlap and there's nothing you can do. Sometimes you to have begin writing a new project just as you're finishing off another.
Author:
Trevor Rabin
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I work on OpenBSD fulltime, as the project leader. I set some directions, increase communication between the developers, and try to be involved in nearly every aspect of the base system.
Author:
Theo Raadt
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I like the creative aspect of developing a project.
Author:
Priscilla Presley
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If I don't have a project going, I sit down and begin to write something - a character sketch, a monologue, a description of some sight, or even just a list of ideas.
Author:
Thomas Perry
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This mission was the project of a decade's work.
Author:
Philippe Perrin
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I love working with new directors. There's so much drive and effort. It still comes down to the character for me, but if it's a character I really want to play, I would never not do the project because of a new director.
Author:
Pauley Perrette
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I am a conservative Republican, a firm believer in free market capitalism. A free market system allows all parties to compete, which ensures the best and most competitive project emerges, and ensures a fair, democratic process.
Author:
Sarah Palin
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You appear to have a good project... we wish you well in this endeavor.
Author:
David Packard
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Australia as a nation, as a set of cities and some regional centres, that project died a death and we didn't get it up, but I still think there's merit in that.
Author:
Susan Oliver
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At the end of the day, though, there are a huge number of considerations that our management team go through before accepting any project - checking out the license is just one of them.
Author:
Andrew Oliver
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This time at Birmingham turned me into a general biologist, and ever since then I have always tried to take a biological approach to any research project that I have undertaken.
Author:
Paul Nurse
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I always believe it's better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do.
Author:
Trevor Nunn
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User-centered design means working with your users all throughout the project.
Author:
Donald Norman
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I have worked closely with many of our county commissioners, mayors, local transportation officials, and others to determine project needs in the 18th District, and they deserve a great deal of thanks for today's victory on the House floor.
Author:
Bob Ney
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Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that.
Author:
Ted Nelson
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The process is intense and the producers, who are intelligent men, are bringing in new people for a fresh look at a complicated project that has been in the making for 10 years.
Author:
Ednita Nazario
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All the signs were right. And when I mean all the sings were right, the only signs that we care about when we start a project of making a record is, do we have the songs - it's that simple.
Author:
Graham Nash
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I have long been a proponent of a guest-worker program between the United States and Mexico, and in particular I have proposed that Arizona would be an ideal location for a pilot project.
Author:
Janet Napolitano
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There are many outsiders that actively try to halt every natural resource development project in Alaska. Many of these same people have never even been to Alaska, yet they claim to know what's best for us.
Author:
Lisa Murkowski
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From the age of four, I was a huge comic fan and still am. When Lost in Space came along it was like being in a huge comic so we jumped at the chance of being part of that project and it proved to be a good choice.
Author:
Bill Mumy
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I'm narrating the television series Biography. I'm still involved in my music - I have a new album out. I have an animated project in development. I'm writing a lot of things and you never know if one of them is going to become a six or seven year project.
Author:
Bill Mumy
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I think especially with the Internet and the amount of reality shows that are going on, there's no way to keep a secret anymore, so I try to let my project be as much as reality show as I can allow it to be.
Author:
Jason Mraz
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Somebody gave me this drum machine and somebody else asked me to program something for a project. I really liked programming and I was really interested in using the drum machine.
Author:
Ikue Mori
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The worst thing that an actor can do is go into any project with a lack of respect for the material. You can have an opinion about it, but you have to respect yourself in doing it.
Author:
Alfred Molina
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I am such a pessimist that every project has surpassed what I envisioned.
Author:
Colin Mochrie
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After 16 months of teaching, consulting, fellowship, and special project activities on matters ranging from conservation to healthcare to international trade, Gov. Ventura appointed me to the Minnesota Court of Appeals.
Author:
David Minge
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And what I liked the most about any project was that when it was good, you had a bunch of people trying to accomplish something together who were all acting together as one - that's the most exciting time for me.
Author:
Liza Minelli
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I've been spoiled by this project. I was given the script and went in to read, realizing that this was a powerful story and one that wasn't told very often.
Author:
Wentworth Miller
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They told me at the end of that test that they wanted me to be a part of this project. I walked out and had a moment of clarity where I thought, not many people will ever have this moment.
Author:
Wentworth Miller
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What I want to bring back to superheroes with this project is a sense of play. Things have gotten so dreary. The heroes have gotten so ugly that even their muscles have muscles.
Author:
Frank Miller
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If you cannot be on the project each day to check on things, then you should not try and be your own contractor.
Author:
Robert Metcalfe
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I'm always learning from experiences because each one is different and there are different players involved in the project at the time with their own way of doing things.
Author:
Christopher Meloni
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At this time, my work on the SPS power supplies had just come to an end; I joined a study group on the pp project and an experimental team studying cooling in a small ring (ICE).
Author:
Simon Meer
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With BSG, sci-fi is the human experience taken beyond the envelope. When I first became involved with the project, I knew that I would be able to play a human being for many years, exploring and reflecting on issues that would impact people's lives.
Author:
Mary McDonnell
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It's phenomenally important to me that, if I'm going to be spending years on a project, I need to be interested in the whole thing. I'm not there to be on my own. And if I'm going to be with these people, I'd best be interested in their work.
Author:
Mary McDonnell
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Hollywood embraced me in the late '80s because there was a good project I was in and it was different. Nowadays, it's about corporate mentality, box office, youth.
Author:
Marlee Matlin
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My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding.
Author:
Harry Mathews
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I can't dislike you, but I will say this to you: you haven't got long before you are all going to kill yourselves, because you are all crazy. And you can project it back at me, but I am only what lives inside each and every one of you.
Author:
Charles Manson
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One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.
Author:
Yo-Yo Ma
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Believing that our greatest need is for the general public to be able to get better information, to have an opportunity to learn better the real issues of the less fortunate, we centered the activities of the Fairness Project on that.
Author:
Mike Lowry
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The Fairness Project is endeavoring to try to do what we can to make a fairer society.
Author:
Mike Lowry
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I think for me to find that project is going to be something that I'm going to have to develop for myself.
Author:
Nia Long
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I'm sure any vocal teacher that listens to me would rather cut my throat than do anything - I do everything all wrong - but I think for me that's the best - because I don't think I have a voice so I think what I project would be style - if I learned to sing I'd lose my style.
Author:
Julie London
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It's really impossible to project ahead even six months in this business.
Author:
Julie London
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I'm not in a hurry to do a lot of projects. I am very resolved in each project I take on.
Author:
Maya Lin
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In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures.
Author:
Maya Lin
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It's a project that touched me as an immigrant and as a New Yorker.
Author:
Daniel Libeskind
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I became interested in making books, starting about 1965, when I did the Serial Project #1, deciding that I needed a small book to show how the work could be understood and how the system worked.
Author:
Sol LeWitt
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You never know when you start a project just how good it can be.
Author:
Jenifer Lewis
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I'm really proud of Blair Witch Project as a film, but as far as the cultural phenomenon of it - that was just weird luck.
Author:
Joshua Leonard
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Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.
Author:
Edwin Land
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You know, we - we start with a mentality that we'll take a sports project if its good. And we're certainly not on the lookout for them, because to be honest we don't have to. They walk in the door.
Author:
Jim Lampley
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Maimonides taught that it is better that 10 criminals go free than let one innocent man be executed. The Innocence Project represents that point of view.
Author:
Norman Lamm
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The project to settle Palestinians here will be never be approved during my tenure regardless of the price.
Author:
Emile Lahoud
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I think there are lots of ways to make good work. You can throw big bucks at a project and make what some would call crap, or you can work very modestly with eloquently moving results.
Author:
Barbara Kruger
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Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.
Author:
Rem Koolhaas
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My project was radiation damage of Si and Ge by energetic electrons, critical for the use of the recently developed semiconductor devices for applications in outer space.
Author:
Walter Kohn
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For the last 30 years our cinemas have been ruled by science fiction and horror. We've had some very good Fantasy films in that time period, but for my tastes I still haven't seen fantasy done to absolute perfection. That is the hope I have in this project.
Author:
Harry Knowles
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After my first visit to Japan, in 1960, to work on a joint model building project at Osaka University, I maintained a continuing interest in the country and the entire Far East.
Author:
Lawrence Klein
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One answer is that the town's elected officials thought that the project served a public purpose and that the various subsidies and favors were worth the price. But they may or may not have thought this.
Author:
Michael Kinsley
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Also, I plan to screw something up on every movie I do so that I can learn from my mistakes and become a better director with each project.
Author:
Richard King
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Well, it's very dangerous to project, but it's clear that the existing technology has some more years to go.
Author:
Jack Kilby
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The reason for this project comes from my childhood, that is clear to me. I did not have any toys. So, I played in the bricks of ruined buildings around me and with which I built houses.
Author:
Anselm Kiefer
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This project would not only open up venues of cooperation in the oil and gas sector between the member countries but also help bring the people of regional countries together.
Author:
Amanullah Khan
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I believe that if creative people are open and generous enough when working with each other, a lot more can be learned and achieved by both parties. That's what it's all about, trying to produce the best work possible on any given project.
Author:
William Kempe
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I actually built a tiny computer as a junior high school project.
Author:
Mitch Kapor
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I went to a Catholic high school and it seemed like every time I drew something for a class project, it either got thrown away by the teacher or something.
Author:
Mike Judge
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That's Tommy, this great producer who comes in contact with people and must have a mental library of personnel who are great for this and great for that, and he brought this whole group of musicians to the project that I'd never worked with before.
Author:
Al Jarreau
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I've been saying for almost 20 years that I need to do a jazz project and it ought to be either big band or I should do some jazz songs with a trio or quartet.
Author:
Al Jarreau
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In the GNOME project we tried to keep the platform language independent.
Author:
Miguel Icaza
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With the coming of radio as a mass medium, suddenly the world changed. It became about, 'can this leader project emotional connection through the way he speaks on the radio?' And the anxiety about whether he could do that, we've inherited.
Author:
Tom Hooper
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The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college.
Author:
Tony Hillerman
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I am actually in poor health due to chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome, and my ability to work is greatly diminished right now, so I have to get better before I can start another big project.
Author:
Laura Hillenbrand
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Jocelyn Bell joined the project as a graduate student in 1965, helping as a member of the construction team and then analysing the paper charts of the sky survey.
Author:
Antony Hewish
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But typically for a project like the Mac, the size we had was pretty good. And it has different stages. The team grows as you have to write manuals and do testing... though the Mac had no formal testing.
Author:
Andy Hertzfeld
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I developed some unique software to public it on the web that I call the Folklore Project.
Author:
Andy Hertzfeld
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We were developing an innovative Personal Information Manager called Chandler but a couple years ago I took off from that to do a project writing down my memoirs essentially, reminiscing about the development of the Macintosh.
Author:
Andy Hertzfeld
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Scotty heard that I was thinking about quitting Apple because of his actions, so he called me into his office and asked what it would take for me to stay? I said, maybe if I could work on the Mac project, which Steve had just taken over from Jef Raskin.
Author:
Andy Hertzfeld
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I love the producer, Joel Rice. We worked together years ago putting a project together.
Author:
Marilu Henner
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It was supposed to be in the second street project for Main Street. But who knows? Maybe it will be built one of these days. We never throw away any idea.
Author:
John Hench
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Through that, I got to know Jerry's work, and I am definitely his number-one fan right now, which is interesting because it usually works the other way around: you usually create a project based on your hero.
Author:
Sean Hayes
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They were using the dolls to project their dreams of their own futures as adult women.
Author:
Ruth Handler
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It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project.
Author:
Herbie Hancock
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I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project.
Author:
Lasse Hallstrom
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I've been working on something, just some jazz, relaxed stuff. It will be standard, just piano and voice. It started out as a fun project for me though, I'm still not sure about releasing it.
Author:
Justin Guarini
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As long as I had easy access to psychedelics at the government-sponsored research project, most of my energy went into psychedelic sessions.
Author:
Stanislav Grof
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The real technical problems came because people working on the project didn't really follow my proposal at all, but set out to do other things instead of making a laser.
Author:
Gordon Gould
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There was a second problem that was still not a technical problem... the project became classified. I couldn't work on it after having gone to all that trouble. I was considered a security risk, so I could not get a clearance.
Author:
Gordon Gould
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While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward.
Author:
Al Gore
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There's only so many small shows you can do. A lot of the smaller things are more side project things. Not everything is appropriate for Sonic Youth to do.
Author:
Kim Gordon
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Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose.
Author:
Andy Goldsworthy
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Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures.
Author:
Andy Goldsworthy
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Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage.
Author:
Danny Glover
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I wanted to do an hour-long show, and I wanted to something that was dramatic and sometimes funny and humorous, as well. I'm just delighted to have this opportunity to be a part of this project.
Author:
Ron Glass
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It is my really sincere desire that we get an opportunity to play long enough for people to really grab on and become fans, because I think it's a great project.
Author:
Ron Glass
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The best project is one that asks a novel question.
Author:
Walter Gilbert
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We've done all the work that HRC wanted on the twin and the project has been completed. We were consistently up there with the top guys and that is what HRC wanted to prove.
Author:
Sete Gibernau
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Rwanda was considered a second-class operation; because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they'd accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily.
Author:
Boutros Ghali
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I'm involved in Project ALS which is trying to get money for stem cell research. That's one I've been pretty involved with because if you can cure that, you can cure so many other diseases.
Author:
Gina Gershon
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There is nothing real about film. Nothing. Even the light particles that project the film can't be proven to exist. Nothing is there.
Author:
Richard Gere
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I have a project at HBO and one at the Family Channel coming that are being looked at. Aside from that I am not doing much more than playing golf and some skiing.
Author:
Gil Gerard
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Being an actor gives you a chance to play all kinds of roles, very moving and dramatic on one project, silly and girlish on another. That's the most interesting thing out this business, you get to keep reinventing yourself.
Author:
Sarah Gellar
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For me, every day is a new thing. I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did. And I get the sweats. I go in and start working, I'm not sure where I'm going. If I knew where I was going I wouldn't do it.
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Frank Gehry
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Railroads are the primary economic beneficiaries. It's a difficult project for the public sector.
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John Gates
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I have all the patience in the world about Sirens. For me it's not a Grateful Dead project, it's a Me project.
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Jerry Garcia
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Before I joined the project most of the English people with whom I had made personal contacts were left wing and affected to some degree or other by the same kind of philosophy.
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Klaus Fuchs
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I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you're never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style.
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Stephen Fry
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But now I really don't want to work unless I really, really care about a project.
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Jodie Foster
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My students frequently ask what their next project should be. My advice: immerse yourself in the music you love and you will find what you want to do; you will discover your next project.
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Lukas Foss
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The creative act is like writing a letter. A letter is a project; you don't sit down to write a letter unless you know what you want to say and to whom you want to say it.
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Lukas Foss
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To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth - all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne.
Author:
Lee Forest
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I hope to devote all of my spare time, which ordinarily would go to research, my summers, and every ounce of strength I can muster to further the project.
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Louis Finkelstein
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Generally, Hollywood makes the same stories over and over. I've never wanted to do the same thing twice. If a script doesn't surprise me in some way, I simply can't commit to the project.
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Sherilyn Fenn
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It's drama, it's a lot of things, but you know it's always about every movie or every TV project ever made is meant to be watched. If people like it and support it, that's what it is all about, really it's sort of the important part about it.
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Will Estes
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Our purpose in this project is to begin to turn that fear of cancer, actually America's greatest fear, into a future, not only free of fear, but full of hope.
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Andrew Eschenbach
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Honestly, I feel like I am a leading man, and it's just going to take the right project, the female and the right studio. It's got to all gel together, you know what I mean?
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Mike Epps
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That was the producer who produced a couple of my solo albums. He produced my second, third and fourth solo albums. It was his project and I just joined him on it. I sang on one and played bass on another one.
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John Entwistle
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As a producer, I think one of the most important decisions you make is not necessarily the material you are working on but the production apparatus that you choose to develop the project with, and that determines what funding you go to, it determines many factors.
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Atom Egoyan
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I mean, if you are directing actors to do one thing and then directing them to do something else entirely because the one thing you wanted them to do may not work, then you are just shattering their confidence in the project.
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Atom Egoyan
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No matter what it is, pick yourself up and go on to the next project.
Author:
Shelley Duvall
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Their term project consists of a fieldwork collection of folklore that they create by interviewing family members, friends, or anyone they can manage to persuade to serve as an informant.
Author:
Alan Dundes
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I get beat up on every project.
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Casper Dien
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My first serious project was photographing badgers - very, very difficult as they are shy and nocturnal.
Author:
Nigel Dennis
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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W. Deming
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The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
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Miles Davis
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Some of these sketches were done at the very beginning of the Pirates project, when I was trying to find a direction for myself. That was the early sixties... maybe 61 or 62.
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Marc Davis
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I don't start with a design objective, I start with a communication objective. I feel my project is successful if it communicates what it is supposed to communicate.
Author:
Mike Davidson
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We have a project with Unocal here in Los Angeles, where we as an environmental organization, the oil company, and the state all get together to promote the recycling of used motor oil.
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Ted Danson
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My next project will be a Christian album, another one. I wrote the songs for the ones you're referring to, but I want to do some of my old gospel favorites. That's what my next album's going to be.
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Charlie Daniels
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It took three years to put Shakespeare's words together, there were a lot of words to be studied and a lot of words to be sorted out, and it proved to be a major project.
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David Crystal
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Well it kind of is project to project because as a writer I think you always write to some degree about things that you know or things that happened - but my favourite filmmakers, my favourite movies of theirs tend to be the personal movies.
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Cameron Crowe
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Everybody in the real world will agree - the moment a project is behind deadline, quality assurance tends to go out the window.
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Alan Cox
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I think sometimes people project things on you, but I'm trying to handle everything that's happened to me with a certain amount of grace, dignity and good manners. You just can't necessarily win all the time.
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Katie Couric
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You wouldn't recognize me from one project to the next.
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Rachael Cook
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That's a great feeling to know that I'm going into a project that I have no idea what will become of that movie, but I really trust Ang Lee. And I really trusted Ron. It's just really nice to work with people that you feel that way about.
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Jennifer Connelly
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Each thing leapfrogs. I do a Genesis project - like now, we're just finishing off an album - and then by the time the album is doing its thing, I could do nothing or I could do a film.
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Phil Collins
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The day Tarzan opened in London, I sat in a hotel room and discussed the project in detail.
Author:
Phil Collins
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If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.
Author:
J. Coetzee
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They say I was a bad Batman, that it was my fault, that I buried the franchise. But the truth is, it was a big project. I was pretty intimidated in that world. I did the best I could in the situation I was given.
Author:
George Clooney
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Since I was 12 or 13, I have been taking movie meetings finding a project right for me because I wanted to try it. Craig gave us the script - it was set in Wales, it is really British humour. I just loved it.
Author:
Charlotte Church
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Occasionally, I would focus on a particular school project and become obsessed with, what seemed to my mother, to be trivial details instead of apportioning the time I spent on school work in a more efficient way.
Author:
Steven Chu
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And for every project, because it takes years, you can see the early drawings and collages as just a simple, vague idea, and through the years and through the negotiations of getting the permit, you see that every detail is now clarified.
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Christo
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The other work we started in 1992, it is called Over the River, Project for the Arkansas River in the state of Colorado, we haven't got the permit yet. And, we are working at both of those, trying to get the permit. Therefore, we do not know which one will be realized next.
Author:
Christo
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In the earliest days, this was a project I worked on with great passion because I wanted to solve the Defense Department's problem: it did not want proprietary networking and it didn't want to be confined to a single network technology.
Author:
Vinton Cerf
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The overall view of the human genome project has been one of great excitement and positive press, but there are people who have concerns that are quite reasonable, and they are frightened of things they don't understand.
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Thomas Cech
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My Mom and Dad did it pretty good, so I know it can work. The foremost thing I would say about working with Robin and Sean is that they were devoted to this project and devoted to their characters. You can't ask for any more from talented actors like that.
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Nick Cassavetes
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Then there's going to be another project I am involved with, in fact, I'm going back to film it next week. It's a game for the Internet called Advance Warriors, and my character is Max, who is blind, but he has special powers. It will be a new game played on the Internet.
Author:
Jeremy Bulloch
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After two weeks of working on a project, you know whether it will work or not.
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Bill Budge
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The project which we developed, however, was for a sound piece and I was initially curious that a sculptor should be interested in working with a musician, especially on a project for radio.
Author:
Gavin Bryars
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The main problem was a pacing problem. I had wanted the project to be about 20-30 issues, and I should have written it out as a full script beforehand.
Author:
Chester Brown
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The risk presented by these lethal wastes is like no other risk, and we should not be expected to accept it or to project it into the future in order for manufacturers and utilities to make a dollar killing now.
Author:
David Brower
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How does a project get to be a year late? One day at a time.
Author:
Frederick Brooks, Jr.
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Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.
Author:
Frederick Brooks, Jr.
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What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.
Author:
Gwendolyn Brooks
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How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time.
Author:
Fred Brooks
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During this period, I became interested in how the new techniques of cloning and sequencing DNA could influence the study of genetics and I was an early and active proponent of the Human Genome Sequencing Project.
Author:
Sydney Brenner
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I object to you using words like squander and pork. What is pork in one part of the country is an essential project in another part.
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John Breaux
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Mr. Speaker, the Delaware River deepening project is important for my constituents, for our region and for the entire nation. I trust that, when they examine the facts about it, every one of my colleagues will join me in supporting it.
Author:
Robert Brady
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The war project at Stanford was essentially completed, and I accepted an offer of an Assistant Professorship at the University of Minnesota, which had a good biochemistry department.
Author:
Paul Boyer
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With any project there's one or two things that you really want to do and that's going to crack it.
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Matthew Bourne
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For the good of our environment, the good of the economy, and the good of the Nation, I strongly urge support of the upper Mississippi locks and dams project.
Author:
Leonard Boswell
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I changed my mind because of a scene between Howard Cunningham and Richie. The father-son situation was written so movingly, I fell in love with the project.
Author:
Tom Bosley
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Television and film acting is really fun because you are working with other people and you are not completely responsible for the outcome of the project.
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Alex Borstein
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It's absolutely crucial for the Democrats to have a sense of their history, of who they are, in order to be able to project their values and stand up for them.
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Sidney Blumenthal
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When everyone around you is doing all this incredible pirate acting and you're having to sort of play the straight guy and move the story forward, you kind of want to be doing some of that pirate ripping it up stuff, but in truth, to be a part of that project is what I love.
Author:
Orlando Bloom
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If your project doesn't work, look for the part that you didn't think was important.
Author:
Arthur Bloch
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The Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules - the first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.
Author:
Arthur Bloch
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Half-jokingly, I asked what was wrong with me. So we made a deal: I would run his biological research provided I had a free hand to run my new project.
Author:
James Black
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I think it's the most extraordinary studio around. I would love to do my next project with Pixar.
Author:
Brad Bird
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Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of work is included... something in which the principle of production and consumption takes on a form of quality. It's a Gigantic project.
Author:
Joseph Beuys
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My current project is my band, Population 1. We are writing, rehearsing and playing in Los Angeles.
Author:
Nuno Bettencourt
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People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart.
Author:
Candice Bergen
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That's all true, but there was something else going on for me as a kid, something about my gender identity that I haven't figured out yet. And that's one of the things I'm hoping to dissect and investigate in this memoir project.
Author:
Alison Bechdel
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When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days.
Author:
Ann Beattie
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Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.
Author:
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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I've always thought of the project as a sort of sexually driven digestive system, that it was a consumer and a producer of matter. And it is desire driven, rather than driven by hunger or anything like that.
Author:
Matthew Barney
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I mean, the Constitution of this country was written 200 years ago. The house I was living in in Madrid is 350 years old! America is still a project, and you guys are working on it and bringing new things to it every day. That is beautiful to watch.
Author:
Antonio Banderas
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Of course, it's hard to support full-time programmers, so we do get funds from a set of companies that are interested in the health of the Mozilla project and so are willing to support the people working for the Foundation as well.
Author:
Mitchell Baker
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People notice it and they help you participate and see your work included in this project and when we ship our browser, you and millions of other people get to see the fruits of your efforts.
Author:
Mitchell Baker
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The Mozilla project is big in terms of lines of code and complexity.
Author:
Mitchell Baker
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We've always been the development project that lived in a time pressured setting and always where commercial entities were relying heavily on releases in a certain time frame.
Author:
Mitchell Baker
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I believe it is an important project, it makes the cost of doing business lower and they will make us more competitive at the same time, it will also provide some satisfaction to the people who demand services for them of the quality they want and also quickly.
Author:
Abdullah Badawi
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The Veteran's History Project, a nationwide volunteer effort to collect oral histories from America's war veterans, provides an avenue to do just that. Now in its fifth year, the Project has collected more than 40,000 individual stories.
Author:
Spencer Bachus
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By interviewing at least one veteran, you can preserve memories that otherwise might be lost. My uncle was a downed fighter pilot and P.O.W. in World War II, and I am looking forward to recording his story for inclusion in the project.
Author:
Spencer Bachus
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I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.
Author:
Randy Bachman
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The way I look at a solo project is, I create what I want with whoever I want.
Author:
Sebastian Bach
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The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order.
Author:
Ibrahim Babangida
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Marketing is what gets you noticed, and that side of it something - this side of it, if you like, doing interviews - is the side of it that I least enjoy, and yet is 50% of the project.
Author:
Rowan Atkinson
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There is a healthy fraternal rivalry, but nothing serious and we both have been looking for a project to do together. I guess he may direct me in a project some day.
Author:
Mackenzie Astin
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We're kidding on that. One of the things I insisted upon when we went into this project was that we are full partners, going fifty-fifty, both on the money and on the say of what's going on with the books.
Author:
Robert Asprin
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Right after I did 'The Fountain,' I wanted to go make a documentary or something that was less constructed - more natural. I was searching for a project, and sniffing around, 'The Wrestler' fit right in.
Author:
Darren Aronofsky
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It's not important to how the band functions or to what we do. That's just many people's opinions on what they see. A lot of people project stuff on you, but that's okay.
Author:
Brody Armstrong
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We're loosely calling it The River Project, but hopefully the pieces that we put together will be educational pieces that will throw some light on the situation as to what kind of jeopardy may be surrounding our great rivers.
Author:
Richard Anderson
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Until now, I've not done a project where the produce, rapper and singer has never worked together like this before, and I had a chance to try a variety of styles.
Author:
Namie Amuro
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These days i tend to use one project I do as a kind of offshoot to the next.
Author:
Marc Almond
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As soon as one project is finished I like to go straight on to something else.
Author:
Marc Almond
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I'm doing a play, a musical. The musical follows the Mamma Mia concept. It's my first LA theater project.
Author:
Tatyana Ali