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Good acting is really excellent carpentry.
John Lithgow / Actor
Carpentry
Excellent
Good Acting
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Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez / Novelist
Carpentry
Literature
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I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years.
Harrison Ford / Film Actor
Carpentry
Enjoyed
Very Good
Years
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The way I grew up, everyone knew how to cook, sew... carpentry.
Shea Hembrey /
Carpentry
Sew
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Success in foreign policy, as in carpentry, requires the right tools for the job.
Richard N. Haass / Diplomat
Carpentry
Foreign Policy
Policy
Tools
Job
Requires
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Word-carpentry is like any other kind of carpentry: you must join your sentences smoothly.
Anatole France / Poet
Carpentry
Kind
Sentences
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My father was very much a handy person round the house, and I learnt a lot of carpentry from him.
John Henry Carver /
Carpentry
Father
House
Round
Learnt
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I'm waiting for the time when I fail - because we all fail - and I'm ready, I'll take up carpentry.
Adrian Edmondson /
Carpentry
Waiting
Fail
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I supported myself by delivering the 'Wall Street Journal' and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry.
David Lynch / Film Director
Jobs
Carpentry
Delivering
Journal
Odd
Odd Jobs
Plumbing
Wall
Wall Street Journal
Street Journal
Supported
Wall Street
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My brother was four years older and always building tree houses. Whether I wanted to or not, I learned carpentry.
Michael Beck /
Carpentry
Tree
Houses
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Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez / Novelist
Carpentry
Hard
Literature
Reality
Woods
Just
Nothing
Both
Working
Material
Ultimately
Wood
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I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does.
Abbas Kiarostami / Film Director
Carpentry
Contentment
Doe
Giving
Time Me Doing
Time Me Sometimes
Time Me Nothing
Gives
Spend
Piece
Wood
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I learned construction and carpentry from my father at a young age, so I felt very comfortable and I felt very satisfied when I worked in that field.
Michael Cudlitz / Actor
Age
Carpentry
Comfortable
Construction
Father
Felt
Fields
Satisfied
Young Age
Field
Worked
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Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry.
William Golding / Novelist
Jobs
Bird
Carpentry
Novelists
Routine
Writing
Daily
Push
Sing
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I was born May 31, 1911, in Paris. My parents owned a small cheese shop, and my maternal grandfather was a carpentry worker. I thus came from what is commonly known as the working class.
Maurice Allais / Economist
Carpentry
Cheese
Grandfather
Worker
Commonly
Maternal
Shop
Owned
Thus
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The last thing on my mind was to be an actor, but I had a crush on a cute girl in the drama department, so the best thing for me to do was audition, help out, do carpentry, whatever it took to get me on that project.
John Ratzenberger / Actor
Cute
Girl
Smile
Carpentry
Crush
Cute Girl
Department
Drama
Best Mind Me
Actor
Audition
Whatever
Project
Help
Last
Took
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
Pat Conroy / Author
Journey
Carpentry
Intellect
Invited
Wire
Life Great Myself
Chose
Explain
High Wire
Join
Readers
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I can build a house with my bare hands. In my late teens I was in a band with my friend Henrik, and his builder father thought we needed something to fall back on, so he taught us carpentry and bricklaying and we built a house over two years.
Kim Bodnia /
Band
Carpentry
Fall
Hands
House
Late
Needed
Taught
Teens
Build
Bare
Friend
Late Teens
My Friend
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And, of course, millions of us cross the border to work in US homes and gardens and factories and carpentry shops and restaurants, and if you go to a restaurant pretty much anywhere in the United States, the chances are that the dishes will be washed by a Mexican.
Alma Guillermoprieto / Journalist
Home
Carpentry
Dishes
Factories
Garden
Mexican
Millions
Restaurants
Shops
Anywhere
Border
Chances
Cross
Gardens
Homes
Restaurant
Washed
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I think one of the things that is essential for happiness in life, or at least for non-sadness, is producing something. I guess that's why I spend so much time and agony writing books. But working on carpentry is sort of like all the pleasure with none of the agony.
Ethan Canin / Author
Agony
Carpentry
Pleasure
Life Happiness Time
Books
Essential
Guess
Spend
Least
None
Producing
So Much Time
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My father liked doing carpentry work, construction work, in the summer vacation. And so my mother designed a cabin, a log cabin, like a - it was like a Swiss chalet. I was twelve years old, and my father and I built it on a rocky point peninsula out into Lake Superior.
John Lautner /
Vacation
Carpentry
Construction
Mother
Summer
Swiss
Twelve
Years
Cabin
Old
Liked
Designed
Lake
Log
Log Cabin
Peninsula
Point
Rocky
Superior
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I get up at sunrise. I'm a Buddhist, so I chant in the morning. My wife and I sit and have coffee together, but then it's list-making time. I have carpentry projects. We have roads we keep in repair. It's not back-breaking, but it's certainly aerobic and mildly strenuous.
Patrick Duffy / Actor
Morning
Buddhist
Carpentry
Coffee
Sunrise
Aerobic
Chant
Repair
Roads
Strenuous
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My father was a doctor, but his passion was making cars, and he was also very good at carpentry. He was a gem, and I don't blame him for not understanding me. When I told him that I would be leaving, he checked his pocket and took out 100-rupee note and gave it to me. He did not like that I was leaving, yet he gave me the money.
Harshvardhan Rane /
Blame
Carpentry
Leaving
Passion
Understanding
Doctor
Checked
Gave
Gem
Note
Pocket
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