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There is undoubtedly a lot of pressure that comes with recognition, which can be a good thing and bad thing all at the same time. But if you stay focused and don't lose sight of what you're doing and who you are, you can rise above it.
Prabal Gurung
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Fashion Designer
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We need to have a strong defense focused on areas that are in the greatest vulnerability. I have been very concerned about America's 361 seaports as a point in which terrorist activities and materials could be brought into the country.
Bob Graham
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Former Governor Of Florida
America
Concerned
Country
Defense
Focused
Materials
Strong
Terrorist
Vulnerability
Activities
Strong Defense
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If high-quality content can be effectively delivered via technology, teachers can devote more time to creating innovative experiences, leading Socratic dialogs, or coaching students one-on-one in more targeted and focused interventions.
Sal Khan
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Creating
Focused
High Quality
Innovative
One On One
Teachers
Content
Delivered
Devote
Effectively
Experiences
Leading
Targeted
Via
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I have visited some places where the differences between black and white are not as profound as they used to be, but I think there is a new form of racism growing in Europe and that is focused on people who are Middle Eastern. I see it.
Montel Williams
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Television Personality
Black And White
Differences
Eastern
Europe
Focused
Profound
Racism
Thinking
Racism People Black
Black And White Black People
Middle Eastern
Visited
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I don't do too much outside of football during football season, because this is my job and I take it seriously. I don't do too much, don't really go out at all that much, don't eat out or anything, try to stay focused and stay to myself.
Robert Griffin Iii
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Football Player
Jobs
Focused
Football
Football Season
Stay Focused
Trying
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What I'm really focused on is connecting people around shared interests, so together they can make good stuff happen. I'm more focused on helping people discover their power as individuals, but through those connections with one another.
Pierre Omidyar
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Entrepreneur
Connecting
Focused
Helping
Helping People
Discover
Individuals
Interests
Shared
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People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.
Kate Upton
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Model
Dumb
Focused
Models
Funny Thinking Always
Pull
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In the European context tax rates are high and government expenditure is focused on current expenditure. A 'good' consolidation is one where taxes are lower and the lower government expenditure is on infrastructures and other investments.
Mario Draghi
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Economist
Consolidation
Focused
Tax
Good Government Where
Current
Expenditure
Lower
Rates
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When it comes to my racing career I'm very driven and very selfish. People who are around me at races will know that I'm a different person here than in my personal life. I completely blank people at races. I need to be focused. I'm rude.
Jenson Button
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Race Car Driver
Blank
Careers
Driven
Focused
Personal Life
Race
Racing
Selfish
Selfish People
Life Me Selfish
Different Person
Races
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I still believe heavily that we have to be careful about having this ego and hubris as a successful corporation, that we should do it all. Because then I think we start to fail our customers and we're too focused on taking over the world.
Parker Harris
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Be Careful
Careful
Customers
Focused
Hubris
Successful
Corporation
Fail
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To really involve yourself in transforming yourself. That's the work that I'm really focused on through my company, Higher Ground Productions, is really helping people to really find a place of personal empowerment as well as inner peace.
Yolanda King
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Activist
Empowerment
Focused
Helping
Helping People
Higher
Inner Peace
Productions
Transforming
Inner
Involve
Personal
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In the beginning, we might have been focused on totally just music and being famous, just wanting to have fame and make hot music, but as we got older, we had to understand that this is a business and that our moves need to be calculated.
Prodigy
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Rapper
Famous
Being Famous
Fame
Focused
Might
Totally
Understand
Beginning
Calculated
Older
In The Beginning
Wanting
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It is clear from all these data that the interests of teenagers are not focused around studies, and that scholastic achievement is at most of minor importance in giving status or prestige to an adolescent in the eyes of other adolescents.
James S. Coleman
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Achievement
Data
Eye
Focused
Importance
Prestige
Teenager
Adolescent
Interests
Minor
Scholastic
Status
Studies
Teenagers
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I want to see Haiti do better. We have the sun everywhere: that's a big asset. We have wonderful coasts, beautiful islands, mountains. Other countries that have that are known for it, but Haiti has been so focused inwards, on its problems.
Laurent Lamothe
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Former Prime Minister Of Haiti
Beautiful
Country
Focused
Haiti
Islands
Other Countries
Sun
Asset
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There are days when I'll write for 15 minutes and have to give up and move around, and I'll write another paragraph and give up again. On other days I get intensely - focused on the process, sit down at 8 A.M. and won't get up until 8 P.M.
Rick Riordan
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Author
Focused
Minutes
Paragraph
Intensely
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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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Professional Wrestler
Focused
Harder
Intense
Motivated
Stay Focused
Training
Mentally
Camp
Front
Mental
Physical
Practices
Sharp
Task
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I'm really 100 per cent invested in 'Suburgatory' right now - I'm really focused on that and really like taking it all in. It's so much fun and I just love this character and I love the guys I work with so I'm just enjoying this right now.
Cheryl Hines
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Actress
Focused
Love Work Character
Cent
Enjoying
Per
Invested
So Much Fun
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No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Preacher
Life
Motivational
Confined
Dedicated
Focused
Gas
Grows
Horse
Light
Niagara
Life Power Great
Anywhere
Disciplined
Drives
Ever
Gets
No Life
Stream
Turned
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As a scientist, my attention became totally focused on global warming some 15 years ago by the elegant and powerful measurements of carbon dioxide trapped in ice cores taken as much as 2 miles deep from the great East Antarctica ice sheet.
John Olver
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Former U.s. Representative
Antarctica
Attention
Carbon
Carbon Dioxide
East
Elegant
Focused
Global Warming
Ice
Miles
Powerful
Scientist
Taken
Trapped
Years
Years Ago
Totally
Much
Became
Deep
Global
Measurements
Some
Sheet
Warming
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Instead of being focused on teaching what we already know, we now have to be focused on creating new knowledge that is China-based, because it's absolutely clear that China is going to shift from a production economy to a knowledge economy.
John Quelch
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Knowledge
China
Clear
Creating
Economy
Focused
New Knowledge
Absolutely
Instead
Production
Shift
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A dear friend of my early childhood has worked as an anthropologist in Papua New Guinea for much of her life, and from the tiny island where her main work has been focused, she has brought me many funny and beautiful stories over the years.
Michael Leunig
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Cartoonist
Dear
Dear Friend
Early Childhood
Focused
Guinea
Tiny
Anthropologist
Life Funny Work
Island
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But, when we started our product portfolio, we focused the mixed signal requirements first for image processing devices and then in audio applications, targeting our technology into the growing use of digital technology in consumer markets.
David Milne
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Writer
Audio
Devices
Digital
Digital Technology
Focused
Processing
Requirements
Applications
Portfolio
Consumer
Image
Mixed
Product
Signal
Targeting
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My mentality has always been focused around the mindset that you have to earn everything. So even if you get told that you're going to play, I take that with a pinch of salt and respect all the comments, but for me, I have to earn my place.
Millie Bright
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Respect
Focused
Mentality
Mindset
Salt
Always Me Everything
Respect Always Me
Around
Comments
Earn
Even
Respect Me Always
Place
Pinch
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Being a reporter and chasing down an assignment isn't an easy thing to do, especially when you're dealing with athletes that are so focused and trying to get their little game plan together to perform under adverse conditions... it's tough.
Junior Seau
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Football Player
Adverse
Chasing
Conditions
Focused
Game Plan
Adverse Conditions
Assignment
Athletes
Perform
Dealing
Reporter
Easy Thing
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My dream was to be in the NBA. I wasn't really focused on being a star player on a team. I just wanted to make it to the NBA. I've been blessed for the opportunities to be in the Finals, been in the playoffs ever since I've been in the NBA.
James Harden
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Basketball Player
Dream
Blessed
Finals
Focused
Nba
Player
Stars
Team
Star
Opportunities
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As a chef, I had started working with groups like Share Our Strength and various local food banks in New York, raising money for hunger-related issues. And not only me, but the entire restaurant industry has been very focused on this issue.
Tom Colicchio
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Chef
New York
Chef
Focused
Groups
Issues
Banks
Local
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Even if the politics needed doesn't exist today, we still need to use our voices to make sure that the people in power are focused on the right things. Because this is a democracy, and in a democracy, people are the ones who run the country.
Greta Thunburg
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Democracy
Focused
Needed
Exist
Right Things
Voices
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I focused on where she was from of course, her voice and her history, her relationship with God - her religion. This was probably the strongest relationship she has had, really. She never seemed to maintain close relationships with husbands.
Gretchen Mol
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Film Actress
Relationship
Focused
Husband
Voice
Husbands
Maintain
Relationships
Seemed
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Sometimes, when you are in a really constrained situation, it makes you more focused about what you want to say and where you're heading. The most beautiful love poems that were ever written are sonnets, composed in a very constraining form.
Etgar Keret
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Writer
Beautiful
Focused
Sometimes
Want
Love Beautiful Most Beautiful
Composed
Constrained
Heading
Most Beautiful
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The standard high school curriculum traditionally has been focused towards physics and engineering. So calculus, differential equations, and linear algebra have always been the most emphasized, and for good reason - these are very important.
Terence Tao
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Mathematician
Algebra
Calculus
Curriculum
Engineering
Equations
Focused
High School
Linear
Physics
Good Always Important
Differential
Emphasized
Good Reason
Towards
Standard
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From the beginning to the end of a drama, it's most important that I'm focused on the project that I'm responsible for and feel affection towards it. Then I get faith that the project will end up being good before getting fully engaged in it.
Lee Min-Ho
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Actor
Affection
Drama
Engaged
Focused
Beginning
Project
Fully
Towards
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My book is focused on the power of the American state, not least because the government of the United States governs so much that the case could be made that everybody around the world ought to have a vote in determining some of its policies.
Todd Gitlin
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Writer
Focused
Ought
Vote
Power Government World
Determining
Governs
Policies
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I dropped out of high school when I was, like, 15, so I just focused on doing music. It's all I wanted to do; I didn't want to work or anything else. I took all the negativity and obstacles that came with life, and I just put it in the music.
Tyga
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Rapper
Music
Focused
High School
Negativity
Obstacles
School
Wanted
Anything
Life Work Music
Anything Else
Doing
Came
High
Dropped
Else
Put
Took
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We must move in our recovery from one addiction to another for two major reasons: first, we have not recognized and treated the underlying addictive process, and second, we have not accurately isolated and focused upon the specific addictions.
Anne Wilson Schaef
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Addiction
Focused
Isolated
Accurately
Addictive
Major
Reasons
Recognized
Specific
Underlying
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think that texting and driving is a 100 percent no-go. I think it should be banned everywhere because you cannot be focused on looking ahead, in the mirrors, being aware of what's around you, and to type on a small keyboard and a small screen.
Allan Mcnish
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Racing Driver
Driving
Focused
Thinking
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I was always active as a child. My dad tried to place me in every sport imaginable. I had so much energy, he wanted to push me in a direction where that energy was used appropriately to keep me out of trouble and focused while I was in school.
Apolo Ohno
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Short Track Speed Skater
Dad
Sports
Active
Children
Focused
Dad Always Me
Direction
Imaginable
Push
So Much Energy
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Dungy, head coach of the Indianapolis Colts, has long believed that he, his staff and players should be as devoted to family time as they are to playing time, as focused on giving to charities as they are to taking the ball away from opponents.
Don Yaeger
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Journalist
Devoted
Focused
Opponents
Staff
Time Family Long
Believed
Charities
Coach
Family Time Long
Head Coach
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I meditate in the morning and before I go to sleep. These are usually the main times because, before I go to sleep, I can get focused on what happened during the day, pull that into perspective, and that'll make my sleep a little more peaceful.
Adam Yauch
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Rapper
Focused
Peaceful
Perspective
Main
Meditate
Pull
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Game day can be emotional, and there are a lot of ups and downs throughout a game, but as a quarterback, you have to be able to see the bigger picture, steady that ship, get all the guys focused in on the task at hand, and keep the thing moving.
Alex Smith
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American Football Player
Able
Bigger
Bigger Picture
Focused
Moving
Quarterback
Steady
Picture
Game
Downs
Guys
Hand
Ship
Task
Throughout
Ups
Ups And Downs
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I think that texting and driving is a 100 percent no-go. I think it should be banned everywhere because you cannot be focused on looking ahead, in the mirrors, being aware of what's around you, and to type on a small keyboard and a small screen.
Allan Mcnish
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Racing Driver
Banned
Focused
Mirrors
Texting
Thinking
Ahead
Screen
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The third group is focused on counterintelligence and security. I think the reason for that is fairly evident, in terms of vulnerabilities of the department and the harm that can come to it by failing to detect when we have, in fact, been harmed.
Stephen Cambone
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Counterintelligence
Department
Evident
Failing
Focused
Harm
Detect
Third
Vulnerabilities
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I like my life to be pure and clean and organised, and I like to have had eight hours' sleep a night. I honestly don't think I'd be as successful if I was a party animal. Because I don't think my personality would be as focused and open as it is.
Jessie J
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Singer
Animal
Clean
Eight
Focused
Honestly
Organised
Party
Pure
Sleep
Successful
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I have always been focused on my job. No profession allows you the luxury of being half-focused. If you're not into it, you're not there. And the film industry is all the more harsh in these cases, perhaps because it's a business of the limelight.
Deepika Padukone
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Film Actress
Jobs
Cases
Film Industry
Focused
Half
Harsh
Limelight
Luxury
Profession
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Given my earlier experience as the longest served CM of the erstwhile undivided A.P., I focused on choosing right people in the right place with clear priorities in the departments that were vital to attract large-scale investments into the state.
N. Chandrababu Naidu
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Focused
Large Scale
Priorities
Attract
Choosing
Departments
Earlier
Investments
Longest
Right People
Served
Vital
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I really think that elected officials should be focused on how you create sustained economic growth, how do you create jobs and all of these issues that made people - segments of our society believe are really important are diversions politically.
Jeb Bush
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Former Governor Of Florida
Jobs
Believe
Diversion
Economic
Economic Growth
Elected Officials
Focused
Growth
Officials
Thinking
Society Believe People
Elected
Segments
Sustained
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You have to communicate with your teammates; you have to be on a string. There are a lot of things that go into a play. And then you are guarding a two or three, which is probably one of their better players on the team, so you're focused on them.
Zach Lavine
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Communicate
Focused
Guarding
Teammates
String
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We adopted a focused strategy of core businesses in Citicorp that play to our unique historic strengths as a global bank that will provide strong growth and attractive returns over the long-term... And we've identified non-core assets we have shed.
Michael Corbat
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Adopted
Assets
Attractive
Core
Focused
Growth
Historic
Long Term
Play
Shed
Strategy
Strong
Unique
Bank
Businesses
Global
Identified
Provide
Returns
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Over the past two years, the House has passed more than 50 measures focused on stimulating the economy and expanding opportunities for American workers. The tax relief provisions in this package have been an important part of our pro-growth agenda.
Roger Wicker
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United States Senator
American Workers
Economy
Expanding
Focused
Relief
Workers
Tax
Agenda
Stimulating
Important Part
Measures
Opportunities
Package
Passed
Pro-Growth
Provisions
Tax Relief
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I never thought being the producer was being the dictator. It means being the director and being the coach. It's a way of keeping everybody focused on the goal, and also having final say. Everybody can be in the same car, but somebody has to drive.
Paul Stanley
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Guitarist
Car
Dictator
Focused
Goal
Mean
Coach
Car Drive Way
Final
Producer
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I'm weird. I'm not too focused on the physicality of a man. They just have to become my best friend, and then I start to get attracted to them. I've never been in a bar and just hit on a guy and started kissing him; I've never done that in my life.
Ana De La Reguera
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Actress
Best Friend
Men
Focused
Guy
Kissing
Physicality
Weird
Life Best Start
Life Best Man
Hit
Bar
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