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I turned down a lot of easier opportunities in order to go for the things that I really and ultimately wanted to do. And what's really nice is that it's starting to work. I've been an actor for coming up on 14 years now and the level of activity that's taking place now is a culmination of a slow cooker approach to as opposed to a microwave.
David Oyelowo

Work, Nice, Down

Recent warming coincides with rapid growth of human-made greenhouse gases. The observed rapid warming gives urgency to discussions about how to slow greenhouse gas emissions.
James Hansen

Growth, Recent, Gas

Baseball does become slow sometimes. It's totally unnecessary. The - you can play baseball fast. You can play it slow, and for some reason, we have chosen to play it slow, you know, which is unfortunate, but nothing you can do about.
Bill James

Nothing, Baseball, Play

But let no one be under any doubt that the scale of the challenge that Europe faces in this emerging global economy is immense and the practical pace of our collective action to meet these challenge to date has just been too slow.
John Hutton

Doubt, Challenge, Action

The really successful work in England tends to be working-class writers telling working-class stories. The film industry has been slow to wake up to that, for a variety of reasons. It still shocks me how few films are written or made in England about working-class life, given that those are the people who go to movies.
Stephen Daldry

Life, Work, Movies

You had to make a camera look like it's traveling at 300 mph, but you couldn't make it actually travel at 300 mph so you had to slow everything down and build devices to do that. So you were constantly engineering.
John Dykstra

Travel, Everything, Down

Novels, in my experience, are slow in coming, and once I've begun them I know I have years rather than months of work ahead of me.
Graham Swift

Work, Experience, Rather

When I get old and slow down I want to look behind me and see all the fire and the wreckage and no stone left unturned.
Aisha Tyler

Fire, Down, Old

Slow, Deep And Hard was a great album, even though it was probably our least selling record.
Josh Silver

Great, Deep, Hard

Well, I have a couple of projects in the pipeline, but I'm taking things slow for now and being choosy about the roles I take up. One thing I can assure you of is that you are going to see a lot of me!
Natasha Henstridge

Taking, Couple, Projects

And film acting is incredibly tedious, just by its nature. It's incredibly, mind numbingly slow.
Hugh Grant

Nature, Mind, Acting

The public is usually slow to catch on to new things, and it's important that musicians stick to their guns and not look for that instant gratification.
Greg Ginn

Important, Public, Musicians

Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower.
Richard Rogers

Business, City, Planning

This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting some credit for what I've done. Which is gratifying, but it's kind of a little late.
Jack Vance

Life, Done, Rather

But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it.
Jack Vance

Computers, Writing, Hard

As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow.
F. Murray Abraham

Made, After, Old

It's the need for change that drives us to join forces with our brothers and sisters all around the world - but change is slow.
Eric Burdon

Change, Around, Brothers

My advice to the tea party freshmen: Slow the galloping horses to a trot. Big government was built over decades; it can't be dismantled in a year, especially when Democrats control the White House.
Ari Fleischer

Government, Control, Big

I've worked really hard to get to where I am. Slow and steady wins the race, and I believe in paying your dues.
Amanda Bynes

Hard, Worked, Race

It takes me time to realize things; I'm a speedy person but a slow thinker.
Julie Christie

Time, Person, Realize

I think George Foreman must have gained about 350 lbs and is slow as ever.
Larry Holmes

Gained, Foreman, George

There were probably about five games in my career where everything was moving in slow motion and you could be out there all day, totally in the zone, and you don't even know where you are on the field, everything is just totally blocked out.
Lawrence Taylor

Moving, Everything, Career

Writing a book is a long and difficult process for me. I'm a slow writer, so I spend the year with Elvis Cole and Joe Pike in my head. I was thinking about this the other day. I wrote the first book in 1987. Literally every day since that time, Elvis and Joe have been in my head. They're always there. I started these guys because I like them.
Robert Crais

Time, Long, Book

I was always told that I was too small, too skinny, too slow, not tough enough, and I never ever believed what people told me.
Joe Theismann

Small, Enough, Tough

If workmen are denied any increase in real wages and they can look forward only to a better standard of living through reduction of prices, progress for them is terribly slow, and they become impatient and dissatisfied.
Charles E. Wilson

Forward, Real, Through

To be able to play as slow as Al Jackson is almost impossible.
Charlie Watts

Play, Impossible, Able

I don't feel like I've nearly got to the place where I'm ready to even slow down.
Ricky Skaggs

Down, Place, Ready

It's a very slow process - two steps forward, one step back - but I'm inching in the right direction.
Rob Reiner

Forward, Two, Direction

The Chinese have certain advantages. The fact that it's a single party government. But I do believe in the long run the fact that India is a functioning democracy committed to the rule of law. Our system is slow to move but I'm confident that once decisions are taken they are going to be far more durable.
Manmohan Singh

Government, Long, Single

We couldn't be making as much money, if we had to deal with stranger behaviour. And right now, anybody who slows down our economic productivity, off they go. We have a place for them, the psychiatric institution. That's the main thing, they slow things down.
Chester Brown

Money, Down, Place

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