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When you sit down to write, you have to be prepared to strip all of those voices away, all of the censors away, and talk about what you think the truth is, which I think is really the task of the writer - to get to the truth.
- Pearl Cleage
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Many times, what people call 'writer's block' is the confusion that happens when a writer has a great idea, but their writing skill is not up to the task of putting that idea down on paper. I think that learning the craft of writing is critical.
- Pearl Cleage
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When you're in the field, you just focus on the task at hand.
- Daniel Berehulak
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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.
- Arthur Bloch
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The task of a priest, in some respects, may be different today, but the principles upon which Herbert built his life as a priest are of universal application.
- Arthur Middleton
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Scientists and academics in particular focus on detail and the minutiae. When they talk to each other, they usually don't focus on the broad ideas; they don't focus on social interconnectedness. They focus on the task that they're doing.
- Aaron D. O'Connell
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I remember watching Audrey Hepburn dancing in movies, and I was inspired by how graceful she looked, though I understand it was no easy task.
- Yuan Yuan Tan
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The more disastrous the mishaps the simpler the reviewing task.
- Donal Henahan
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I feel filmmaking is not an easy task. People make films but sometimes they are not able to release it.
- Rakhi Sawant
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Because the task of a political leader is to do what he believes is better for his country. Sometimes the public opinion is in favor; sometimes the public opinion needs a little bit more time to understand things.
- Jose Maria Aznar
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While the male eye zooms in on a particular element to the exclusion of all else, a woman's gaze flickers from one tedious task to the next, to the point where we can't distinguish between the importance of mopping the kitchen floor and achieving world peace.
- Mariella Frostrup
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My task with 'Uh-Huh' was to make a more even record and get away from juvenile topics like 'Hurts So Good.' But I also knew if I wanted to continue, I had to have more hits.
- John Mellencamp
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I'm always staying motivated because, as training camp goes on, practices become more intense, harder, and shorter. It's a mental thing, too, not only physical - you have to stay mentally sharp and stay focused on the task in front of you.
- Brock Lesnar
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To rewrite history on the bases of hypotheses which have not materialized is not only a fruitless task, but, in my eyes, meaningless.
- Jean Monnet
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We will liberate our country from the occupying forces and put an end to relations between Russia and the Chechen State, no matter how difficult the task may be.
- Aslan Maskhadov
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The fundamental problem here is that humans and automation approach the driving task differently.
- Karl Iagnemma
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I sit on the Drug Policy Subcommittee of the United States Congress. I'm on the speaker's task force. This is something people would rather turn away from and not face, but in fact it is possibly the greatest threat we face.
- Doug Ose
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I find DIY really therapeutic. I lose myself in it, because you can concentrate on the task and not think about all the other stuff going on in your life.
- Andrea McLean
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Portraying Mozart is a scary task. Whenever I'm asked to portray actual historic figures, it comes with extra accountability. Not just to your director and playwright, but to the man himself and the beloved persona that the public forms.
- Rob McClure
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Only thanks to blissful ignorance, and the inspiration of my grandparents' story, did I actually believe tackling a novel would be an easy task. I've since learned otherwise.
- Kristina McMorris
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The director's task is to recreate life, its movement, its contradictions, its dynamic and conflicts. It is his duty to reveal every iota of the truth he has seen, even if not everyone finds that truth acceptable.
- Andrei Tarkovsky
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I'm a grinder. I've been grinding my whole life. Whatever task is in front of me, I'm going to try to accomplish it.
- Buddy Hield
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Filmmaking is no easy task.
- Divya Khosla Kumar
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I don't think Curcic is up to the task. I'd like to be more positive, but a coach who has not been in charge of a top team aiming for titles does not have the potential, the authority, or the knowledge to lead a national team to victories.
- Dusan Tadic
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What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.
- David Lloyd George
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My responsibility is always and everywhere the same: to see in my brother more even than the personality and manhood that are his. My task is always and everywhere the same: to see Christ himself.
- Trevor Huddleston
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In my mind, declaring that an unfamiliar task will yield low-hanging fruit is almost always an admission that you have little insight about what you're setting out to do.
- Jason Fried
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As a former minority leader who became the first Republican Speaker of the House in Florida since Reconstruction, I know that leadership is not an easy task.
- Dan Webster
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It becomes a giant's task to compute the result when the effect of cross seas, wind at all angles and ever varying force, arched surfaces, head resistance, ratio of weight to area, and the intelligence of the guiding power crop up.
- Lawrence Hargrave
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It's no simple task getting the very best from each and every member of the squad.
- Massimiliano Allegri
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The presidency of the Euro group is an interesting and important task.
- Wolfgang Schauble
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As a filmmaker, it's not my intent to trigger or shape national discourse. My task is to make as powerful and understandable a film as I can. What happens next is what happens next.
- Peter Landesman
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The tremendous honour of the Nobel Prize is of the strongest incentive to me in my work, while the amount of the Prize will greatly simplify my task and provide me with much valuable help in my work.
- August Krogh
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In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.
- Arne Jacobsen
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Let me remind you all that the first task of American foreign policy is to reduce threats to the United States.
- Michael Mandelbaum
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And though hard be the task, 'Keep a stiff upper lip'.
- Phoebe Cary
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Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to work with. It is a life-long task.
- Richard Leakey
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Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it.
- Donella Meadows
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Formula creation is magnitudes harder for computer algorithms than actually executing within a formula. But once the genre is created and the formula is known, then the computer can do the repetitive task of executing within the genre.
- Philip M. Parker
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Usually, like, on 'Mean Girls,' the task that Tina Fey and I set for ourselves was we wanted to maintain a comic intensity throughout the movie, where people just don't really get a break from laughing. And if they do, it's for a brief emotional scene, and then we're going to once again try to knock them on their heels again with comedy.
- Mark Waters
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The task of understanding the past is neverending.
- Susanna Moore
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My books were always full of ink blots, always stained and covered with smeared sketches and pictures, which one draws idly when his attention wanders from his task.
- Pierre Loti
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I don't think I would have been a good mother. Being a parent brings immense responsibility. It's a Herculean task. It would be almost too much for me.
- Julie Christie
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I always say that modernization is not an abstract thing; it's a very specific task.
- Dmitry Medvedev
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I was just studying with my father, a very difficult task for me since he was a great, great Qawwali singer.
- Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
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As a co-chair of the State's 2010 Olympics Task Force, I am working to make sure our border crossings are ready to handle the risks and benefits the Games will bring.
- Rick Larsen
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We need innovation in education and dedication to the task before us.
- Alan Autry
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My major task was to keep us solvent.
- Cheryl Crawford
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The Chinese, as befits a Communist autocracy, approached the task of dominating the Olympics with top-down military discipline.
- Shashi Tharoor
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The thing about praising beauty is that good looks are an unforgiving task- master, a Forth Bridge of a maintenance job. The passing years present their accounts. Younger models become available.
- Laurie Graham
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I was reading scripts, doing coverage, for CAA. Reading hundreds and hundreds of scripts across the board, from blind submissions to 'Brokeback Mountain'. It was not always a pleasant task but something, in hindsight, I'm glad I did.
- D. B. Weiss
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Don't worry about breaks every 20 minutes ruining your focus on a task. Contrary to what I might have guessed, taking regular breaks from mental tasks actually improves your creativity and productivity. Skipping breaks, on the other hand, leads to stress and fatigue.
- Tom Rath
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Handling the digital avatar of a piglet was challenging, the actors had their task cut out while imagining a live creature on sets. It took them some time to get into the groove, but the journey was worth it.
- Ravi Babu
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I think a reason why actors get reputations for being crazy and neurotic is because your life task is constantly in flux.
- Ari Graynor
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I feel like when the task is more difficult for me it's more exciting.
- Victoria Azarenka
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I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll make the effort.
- Thomas Lynch
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The fact that a task cannot be computerized does not imply that computerization has no effect on that task. On the contrary, tasks that cannot be substituted by computerization are generally complemented by it. This point is as fundamental as it is overlooked.
- David Autor
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Writers themselves benefit from all helpful information about their task and methods. Readers, in turn, can have both their understanding and appreciation of literature enhanced by information about the writer's work.
- Leland Ryken
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My most important task must be an attempt to bring the monster under democratic direction and control.
- Elliot Richardson
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If there are flaws they are in ourselves, and our task therefore must be one not of redesign but of renewal and reaffirmation, especially of the standards in which all of us believe.
- Elliot Richardson
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It often seemed like we had become a nation where the only heroes were rock singers and ball players and that there were no large men of probity who could be called upon for the task.
- Elliot Richardson
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When you go out there, and you're in the ring, honestly, half the time you forget what city you're even in because you're so focused on what you're doing and the task at hand.
- Bray Wyatt
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I'm very militant with my state of mind. I'm very task at hand and I don't let any interference ever enter my mind.
- Karrion Kross
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But part of the enjoyment I take in it is finding the most efficient way to do it, which doesn't mean the corrections aren't made. I like to have a feeling of the whole task before I start, even if it changes.
- Bruce Nauman
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What I tell founders is not to sweat the business model too much at first. The most important task at first is to build something people want. If you don't do that, it won't matter how clever your business model is.
- Paul Graham
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I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity.
- Queen Elizabeth II
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The best thing about being immensely wealthy is not having to be in any particular place at any particular time doing a particular task you don't want to do.
- Felix Dennis
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Only four secretaries of defense served longer than Robert M. Gates. Many others were as dedicated; many sacrificed a great deal. Alone among them all, however, Mr. Gates had the task of turning around two wars that the U.S. was losing.
- Jack Keane
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We have only one task, to stand firm and carry on the racial struggle without mercy.
- Heinrich Himmler
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Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task.
- Aldrich Ames
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The difficulties of conducting espionage against the Soviet Union in the Soviet Union were such that historically the Agency had backed away from the task.
- Aldrich Ames
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I am much more a pitch manager than a general manager. I am one of the few managers who is bored by the transfer market. Our task is growing the players that we have.
- Maurizio Sarri
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You can't control what the other athlete is going to do; you can't control anything except for your competition and how you execute the race or how you execute the task.
- Michael Johnson
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Our task was doing maintenance and repairs to keep the station in a good state for the return of the shuttle flights and resumption of major ISS construction.
- Leroy Chiao
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A financial institution has the task of taking risks, and if it's a well run institution - say, Goldman Sachs - it tries to cover the potential losses to itself, but only to itself.
- Noam Chomsky
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The first scholarly edition of Magna Carta was published by the eminent jurist William Blackstone. It was not an easy task. There was no good text available.
- Noam Chomsky
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It's a daunting task to create something that interests audiences.
- Vignesh Shivan
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With some of the samples that I chose to use, tracking down the person that owns the publishing has become a task.
- Big K.R.I.T.
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My top goal as your Secretary of State is to save lives by reducing fatal traffic crashes. When I established the Teen Driver Safety Task Force, the goal was to improve Illinois' graduated driver licensing law and, even more importantly, to save lives.
- Jesse White
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Far from wishing to awaken the artist in the pupil prematurely, the teacher considers it his first task to make him a skilled artisan with sovereign control of his craft.
- Eugen Herrigel
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For to change the norms, the very foci of attention, of a cultural system is a difficult task - far more complex than that of changing an individual's attitudes and interests.
- James S. Coleman
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Part of the problem is voters know relatively little about Romney. And some of what they know about him complicates his task: Romney has a history of flip-flopping on issues, he's extraordinarily wealthy, and he can be tone-deaf about what moves voters. He just doesn't seem comfortable in his skin.
- Ron Fournier
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My colleagues made me play Truth & Dare & gave me a task that I have to stay in a room for 3 days. The room will be locked, there will be cameras all around & it's gonna be live.
- Jitendra Kumar
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Comedy is very tough to do, it never gets the awards but it's the toughest task.
- Jitendra Kumar
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In 1947 I defended my thesis on nuclear physics, and in 1948 I was included in a group of research scientists whose task was to develop nuclear weapons.
- Andrei Sakharov
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It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients.
- Ivan Pavlov
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I think the legacy left behind by 'Battlestar' speaks for itself. I thought that these avid fans, most of whom were skeptical at first... to turn them into a fan of 'Caprica' as well is a daunting task, a big challenge.
- Esai Morales
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Labor Day is a time to recognize and reflect on that work, and for elected officials to recommit to the too-often ignored task of fighting to improve the lives of working families.
- Elissa Slotkin
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Playing a character is like compressing an entire life into a few lines - that isn't an easy task.
- Atul Kulkarni
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Getting to the point where a cause goes from being a terribly daunting task with a handful of adherents to an acknowledged success with momentum and many allies is a rarity.
- Thomas Kaplan
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As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can be tweaked and varied but will never go obsolete. Even when builders pound nails by the thousand with pneumatic nail guns, every household needs a hammer.
- James Gleick
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For comics, Edinburgh makes no financial or medical sense. Get an audience; that's the first task. Once the punters are in, simply make them laugh for an hour, and then sweat on the critics.
- Dominic Holland
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Writing 'Mayanagri' was not an easy task.
- Satish Kaushik
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Right from my childhood, whenever I have taken up a task, I have been an achiever.
- Tamilisai Soundararajan
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The central task of science is to arrive, stage by stage, at a clearer comprehension of nature, but this does not at all mean, as it is sometimes claimed to mean, a search for mastery over nature.
- Lewis Thomas
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I finished my university studies with classical music while being in a successful metal band, but that was not an easy task at all.
- Tarja Turunen
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Because you basically won a close re-election, your first task is to unify the city. And it's done not with words but with actions, by reaching out, to the supporters of your opponent as well as to reassure your own supporters.
- Marc Morial
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Our task will be to advance Kenya's interests and ensure they are well served.
- Mwai Kibaki
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Securing food is the basic task for all humans.
- Gong Li
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No operational commander should have to assign a soldier a task that could be done as well by a computer, a remote sensor, or an unmanned airplane.
- Richard Perle
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