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  • Bill Plympton I'm very happy with the success of short films. In fact, for me, the short films make more money than the features.
    Bill Plympton
    American animator, graphic designer and cartoonist (1946 - )
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  • Adam Faith I'm working harder now than ever before. I couldn't turn down the BBC job because I've never been offered the opportunity of killing three or four people on screen before!.
    Adam Faith
    English teen idol, singer, actor and financial journalist (1940 - 2003)
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  • Bert Lance I've always believed that if you had a fellow who works 150 percent of the time, he's going to beat a fellow who works something less than that.
    Bert Lance
    American businessman (1931 - 2013)
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  • Buzz Osborne I've always had the idea that multi-millionaire rock stars should work harder than anyone because they have the ability to do it. Look at an artist like Andy Warhol. He never stopped working, even after he didn't need to work again.
    Buzz Osborne
    American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter (1964 - )
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  • Bert Lance I've always tried to set some kind of goal. I want to be better than anybody in the banking business, and when I ran the Highway Department in Georgia, I wanted it to be the best in the country. And of course, I have a high sense of public service.
    Bert Lance
    American businessman (1931 - 2013)
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  • Bryan Callen I've always wanted to be a brooding, deep, dark artist, but I can never keep that facade going for more than 15 minutes.
    Bryan Callen
    American stand-up comedian, actor, writer (1967 - )
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  • Bebe Neuwirth I've been on stage since I was 7. That's where I'd rather be than anywhere else. Just because you can do a bunch of things doesn't mean you are a bunch of things. I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer.
    Bebe Neuwirth
    American actress, singer and dancer (1958 - )
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  • Aaron Stanford I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.
    Aaron Stanford
    American actor (1976 - )
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  • Barbara Rosenblat I've been recording audiobooks for more than 30 years. I've recorded over 500 titles on all sort of things. I'm a sort of genre-free recording artist - classics and romances, I just finished a sci-fi book, self help... just all kinds of things.
    Barbara Rosenblat
    British actress (1950 - )
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  • Ben Saunders I've diced with death the most cycling around London. Black cabs are far more dangerous than polar bears.
    Ben Saunders
    British explorer
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  • Beth Gutcheon I've found in the past that the more closely I identify with the heroine, the less completely she emerges as a person. So from the first novel I've been learning techniques to distance myself from the characters so that they are not me and I don't try to protect them in ways that aren't good for the story.
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  • Thomas Carlyle I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Al Unser I've got a great team of engineers behind this race car. I've got a great bunch of mechanics that make it reliable. This car is developed to go out there and be better than the Reynard, and I feel that it is.
    Al Unser
    American automobile racing driver (1939 - )
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  • Bill Walton I've had 36 orthopedic operations, have two fused ankles, my knees, hands and wrists don't work, I now have a fused spine, other than that, everything is great.
    Bill Walton
    American basketball player (1952 - )
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  • Art Linkletter I've learned it's always better to have a small percentage of a big success, than a hundred percent of nothing.
    Art Linkletter
    Canadian-born American radio and television personality (1912 - 2010)
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  • Al Sharpton I've never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • Thornton Wilder I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for - whether it's a field, or a home, or a country.
    Thornton Wilder
    American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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  • Beth Ditto I've never had a very quiet voice. I tried in choir to make it smaller, and it just didn't work out. And I listened to a lot of soul music when I was growing up on my own accord. But I was mostly into Mama Cass and Gladys Knight, and they all had big voices too; just different than mine.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Carol Shields I've never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I've entered my story, I need them more than ever.
    Middlesex (2003) 217
    Carol Shields
    American-born Canadian novelist (1935 - 2003)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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