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I keep getting these people at my shows who only know me from television. I can always tell when they're, like, emotionally flinching when I start doing my jokes.
Dave Attell

Keep, Start, Tell

Through the years I've been getting better and better and better, and it's what you learn though the seasons.
David Ortiz

Through, Learn, Though

Teens are always shown as one dimensional. They're stereotyped. When I was in high school, I cared about more than getting a date or making the team.
Jared Leto

School, Team, Making

In terms of writing about horses, I fell backwards into that. I was intent on getting a Ph.D., becoming a professor, and writing on history but I got sick 14 years ago when I was 19. Getting sick derailed that plan completely.
Laura Hillenbrand

History, Writing, Sick

Before I start directing a show, I try to spend a few weeks hanging around the set, getting to know the crew and talking to the actors about how they like to work. Who is fussy? Who is left-handed? Who wants to go home early, and who is the perfectionist?
Eric Stoltz

Work, Home, Before

Cancer came back into my life twice in order for me to understand something, and I guess I still wasn't getting it. And my husband wasn't getting it, either.
Mariel Hemingway

Life, Husband, Understand

I loved acting when I was doing it, but getting the jobs I didn't understand because I'd never had to do it. That was a difficult lesson for me. It was very humbling and very bizarre.
Mariel Hemingway

Understand, Acting, Difficult

The experience of getting my Kriya, which is the meditation process that I do, was very powerful for me - though, as I explain in the book, I was really suspect of that kind of thing.
Mariel Hemingway

Experience, Powerful, Book

I mean, you still can't jump offstage and go read a book. But I'm getting better at it. It is something you can manage. You can still give everything you have to the audience onstage, and have something for yourself.
Andrew Bird

Yourself, Book, Mean

You have to be able to be a good loser. You have to be okay knowing you're going to fail every day in something without getting mad and upset.
Dan O'Brien

Good, Loser, Mad

I enjoy getting an artist at the beginning stages, and then I'm able to pull out something that is so pure and actually create their individual style. From how they pick up the microphone, to how to look on the stage, to their dance steps, to their talk, their opinions, to what they wear, so it really gets to be developed from the beginning.
Laurieann Gibson

Enjoy, Dance, Talk

I want to be able to say, 'you think you're odd, I'm even odder and I made it - you can too!' I want to direct, do more with 'The Dance Scene,' sign artists and just provide opportunities. I'm just getting started and having the time of my life!
Laurieann Gibson

Life, Time, Made

I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy.
Flavor Flav

Music, Real, High

The process of writing a novel is getting to know more about the novel until you know everything about it. And it's been described as a kind of dreamlike state where you're letting the novel make its own shape, and you're putting into it the pleasure of creation, which is intoxicating.
Martin Amis

Writing, Everything, Until

Am I getting better at making choices? Well, I think I might be getting better at reading scripts.
Benicio Del Toro

Making, Reading, Might

My political science degree is always on the back-burner. I took my LSAT, so even if I want to take the LSAT again, I know what I'm getting into. I'll keep it on the back-burner. Who knows, maybe with my popularity, I can have a career in politics with a law degree. I think it'll work out either way.
Vinny Guadagnino

Work, Politics, Science

So, I remember when I was a kid, I was waiting for my mom to come home when she was working late, and, you know, I was like, 'Oh my God, what happened to her? Is she OK? Did something happen to her getting in the car?' I was a little kid. But those are actually early onsets of anxiety.
Vinny Guadagnino

I often find that having an idea in my head prevents me from doing something else. Working is therefore a way of getting rid of an idea.
Jasper Johns

Find, Working, Else

We all take losses and it's about getting up and coming back.
Mike Epps

There's a lot of dancing in football. You can see Victor Cruz doing a little bit of a cha-cha or samba move in the end zone. You can see Terrell Owens getting his popcorn ready. You can see Ochocinco doing the riverdance. But not so much when it comes to ballroom.
Emmitt Smith

End, Football, Move

So many schools are getting rid of music programs and it's really sad because I know that when I started singing and stuff it was something that I always wanted to do and I never believed in myself to be able to do it.
Hilary Duff

Music, Sad, Wanted

Woody Allen is in his '70s and he's making movies, so I look forward to getting there.
Brett Ratner

Movies, Forward, Making

The actual getting into the gym and working out process was easier, but the eating was harder. I had to eat every two hours. At one point, my trainer said, 'Put anything in your mouth. Go to McDonald's, get the biggest shake possible. I just need to get calories in you.' Because my body fat at the time was only, like, 7.5%.
Taylor Lautner

Time, Two, Working

Yeah, Jacob transforms a lot in 'New Moon.' Not only physically, but mentally and emotionally as well. So it was a matter of getting to the gym and eating the right foods and a lot of it. But also, reading and studying the book and my character over and over and over again so I could have his character down as well.
Taylor Lautner

Character, Book, Down

'Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.
Kamala Harris

Smart, Mean, Crime

Each year, I say I'm going to go to school next year. It's inevitable that I'll end up getting my education.
Eliza Dushku

Education, School, End

I definitely enjoy getting to know people I find inspiring.
Spike Jonze

Enjoy, Find, Definitely

Why stop now when I'm just getting the hang of it?
Robert Goulet

Why, Stop, Hang

My biggest insecurity is that my personality is too much, and as I get older, it's just getting bigger.
Angie Harmon

Insecurity, Older, Biggest

I'm just getting older and better.
Neal Schon

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