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I would take up any small job on the sets, just so that I could hang around with the hope of getting noticed.
Christine Lahti

Hope, Job, Around

I have seen great jazz musicians die obscure and drinking themselves to death and not really being able to get any work and working in small, funky jazz clubs.
Sonny Rollins

Work, Great, Death

With small breasts, you don't have to wear a bra with dresses that have some support. It feels sexy without one.
Sandra Oh

Sexy, Support, Feels

Hollywood likes to put actors in boxes, and it likes to put Asian actors in really small boxes.
Sandra Oh

Put, Hollywood, Likes

We hope that the plain people - the labourers and small farmers - will take this opportunity of coming together and working out the National programme.
Eamon de Valera

Hope, Together, Working

A small silence came between us, as precise as a picture hanging on the wall.
Jean Stafford

Silence, Between, Picture

Internet radio stations like KCRW do take you everywhere, yet that's just one of a hundred small things you have to do to succeed. It used to be, if you just got on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' and a spotlight on 'The Tonight Show,' that was enough.
Teddy Thompson

Enough, Succeed, Show

Companies cannot really see beyond their current customer base. They explicitly or implicitly do things to protect their current customers. And the last person to want real change is your customer. This is why most new ideas come from small companies that have nothing to lose.
Nicholas Negroponte

Change, Nothing, Real

I find that even small changes sometimes jog you out of a mental rut.
Tom Perrotta

Find, Sometimes, Changes

I wasn't always this confident. Growing up as the awkward gay kid in a small town in Pennsylvania, you're constantly told, 'Don't be yourself, don't be proud of who you are.'
Carson Kressley

Yourself, Gay, Proud

A small venue is so much more intimate and loose. You can actually be more spontaneous, I feel.
Suzy Bogguss

Actually, Intimate, Venue

Chicago '68 was a relatively small demonstration for its time, but I've talked to millions of people who claim they were there because it felt like we were all there. Everyone from our generation was there and was at Woodstock.
Bill Ayers

Time, Everyone, Felt

Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year - a small government proposal if ever there was one.
Bill Ayers

Government, Year, Beginning

I never really acted at school. It was doing small parts on TV that really got me started.
Freddie Highmore

School, Started, Tv

A small child from a developing country has the advantage, from a very early age, of having access to toys which structure his mind, which constitute a sure advantage over the little African child who has never even held a modern toy.
Abdoulaye Wade

Age, Mind, Country

The openness of rural Nebraska certainly influenced me. That openness, in a way, fosters the imagination. But growing up, Lincoln wasn't a small town. It was a college town. It had record stores and was a liberal place.
Matthew Sweet

Place, College, Growing

Washington state's 2nd Congressional District is a major producer of small fruit crops such as raspberries and strawberries. This research center is doing important work to help farmers enhance the quality, yield and marketability of their small fruit crops.
Rick Larsen

Work, Help, Important

You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.
Rachel Griffiths

Bit, Texas, Dust

I'm a micro-celebrity, about as small a celebrity as you can be.
Steve Burns

The construction of extensive railways, however, and particularly the consolidation of small, experimental lines into large systems, dates from the days of the discovery of gold in California.
John Moody

Days, However, Large

It seems likely that most if not all the genetic information in any organism is carried by nucleic acid - usually by DNA, although certain small viruses use RNA as their genetic material.
Francis Crick

Seems, Material, Likely

I like to do projects in which you can see statistical results. I am very happy for all these small children, who have been the biggest group of victims of iodine deficiency.
Anatoly Karpov

Happy, Children, Group

My fiction is reviewed by the mainstream press, by science fiction periodicals, romance magazines, small press publications and various other journals, including some usually devoted to archaeological and other science material.
Jean M. Auel

Science, Material, Fiction

Well, I actually first got into music as a small child, and as I became a teen, I sought out making money from music, weather that was singing lounge gigs, backup in studios, or weddings.
Chantal Kreviazuk

Music, Money, Teen

The dynamic is extremely similar to Gremlins and the hero is very similar, plus the small town atmosphere. It really is in a way the third Gremlins movie.
Joe Dante

Hero, Movie, Town

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.
Czeslaw Milosz

Truth, Reality, Lie

Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.
Magnus Carlsen

Quite, Popular, Chess

It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods.
Jack Kilby

Started, Company, Changed

There's no question that the next generation of terrorists, rather than going for small, little dramas, will go for the big one. They now understand that the way to get the world's attention is not strapping bombs to themselves in a pizza parlour, but to do something so horrific it gets you into the Guinness Book of World Records for terrorism.
Richard Holbrooke

Book, Understand, Big

You face racism in small and large ways.
Jayson Blair

Racism, Face, Ways

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