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Production for movies or TV is very painstaking and slow.
Mike White / Director
Painstaking
Slow
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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
John Burroughs / Essayist
Observation
Painstaking
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No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin.
Richard Owen /
Attention
Barnacles
Devoted
Naturalist
Structure
Mr
Darwin
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A friend of mine jokes that I have a painstaking royalty complex. Like maybe I was a duke in a past life.
Frank Ocean / Singer
Dukes
Past
Past Life
Royalty
Friend
Complex
Duke
Maybe
Mine
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It is easy to talk about development. However, it entails painstaking efforts to actually make it happen.
Arvind Kejriwal / Former Chief Minister Of Delhi
Development
Make It Happen
Efforts
Entails
However
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All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Martin Luther King, Jr. / Civil Rights Activist
Uplifting
Work
Dignity
Excellence
Humanity
Importance
Labor
Teaching
Volunteer
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Undertaken
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Car chases are as painstaking to make as they are fun to watch. They take a lot of time, and you have to keep the energy up.
Edgar Wright / Film Director
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A lot of people feel that there is less artistry involved in cartoon making unless they have painstaking control of each frame.
Lev Yilmaz / Animator
Artistry
Cartoon
Feels
People
Frame
Control People Feel
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I start each of my scripts by going on a journey of painstaking research and discovery, much as I do a piece of long-lead journalism.
Peter Landesman /
Discovery
Journalism
Scripts
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There are no shortcuts to victory. We must commit ourselves to the slow, painstaking work of foreign policy day by day and year by year.
Richard Lugar / Former Member Of The United States Senate
Commit
Foreign Policy
Policy
Shortcuts
Victory
Years
Foreign
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Slow
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Writers like to write, and writing in different forms - short, long, bite-sized, done on the fly, done with painstaking attention - all interest me.
Susan Orlean / Journalist
Done
Long
Writing
Forms
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A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of, accurate measurement.
Paul D. Boyer / Chemist
Appreciation
Smile
Accurate
Analysis
Measurement
Needs
Qualitative
Wings
John
Painstaking
Quantitative
Wing
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No single achievement in science is possible without the painstaking work of the many hundreds who have built the foundation on which all new work is based.
Polykarp Kusch / Physicist
Achievement
Foundation
New Work
Hundreds
Painstaking
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When I diced vegetables, it was painstaking work to make sure that every single piece looked the same: 1/4-inch cubed for small, 3/4-inch cubed for large. It's a matter of practice and precision.
Gail Simmons / Television Personality
Practice
Precision
Vegetables
Large
Looked
Painstaking
Piece
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The most painstaking phase comes when the manuscript is set in 'type' for the first time and the first proofs of the book are printed. These initial copies are called first-pass proofs or galleys.
Erik Larson / Journalist
Copies
Printed
Time First Time First
Initial
Manuscript
Painstaking
Phase
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Command those that govern your house before all you household that they keep careful watch that all your household, within and without, be faithful, painstaking, chaste, clean, honest and profitable.
Robert Grosseteste / Philosopher
Careful
Chaste
Clean
Faithful
House
Profitable
Watches
Govern
Painstaking
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That can be the most painstaking aspect of being a teen, figuring out what the world really looks like. If you find someone in a book, you know you're not alone and that's what's so comforting about books.
Laurie Halse Anderson / Writer
Teen
Aspect
Comforting
Figuring
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Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.
Barack Obama / 44Th U.s. President
Citizens
Generations
Millions
Notion
Ancestors
Included
Painstaking
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Stanley Kubrick, I had been told, hates interviews. It's hard to know what to expect of the man if you've only seen his films. One senses in those films painstaking craftsmanship, a furious intellect at work, a single-minded devotion.
Tim Cahill / Soccer Player
Men
Craftsmanship
Devotion
Furious
Hate
Intellect
Interviews
Senses
Stanley
Hates
Painstaking
Single-Minded
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Command that no one be received, or kept to be of your household indoors or without, if one has not reasonable belief of them that they are faithful, discreet, and painstaking in the office for which they are received, and withal honest and of good manners.
Robert Grosseteste / Philosopher
Belief
Discreet
Faithful
Good Man
Good Manners
Honest
Household
Manners
Office
Reasonable
Good Good Manners Manners
Indoors
Painstaking
Received
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I was not a great bartender, but I did OK. I wasn't great at being efficient behind the bar, but I was pretty great at talking to people. I was a pretty good waiter. It was painstaking to get me to care about the clientele of some of these places I was working at.
Jack Falahee /
Bartender
Efficient
Talking
Waiter
Good Great Me
Bar
Behind
Painstaking
Places
Pretty Good
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The proud road travelled by Chongryon bears the imprints of the wise guidance and painstaking efforts of the great leaders, who strengthened and developed Chongryon into a Juche-based overseas compatriots' body that represents the rights and interests of all the Koreans resident in Japan.
Kim Jong-Un / Supreme Leader Of North Korea
Bears
Guidance
Japan
Developed
Efforts
Great Leaders
Overseas
Painstaking
Resident
Strengthened
Travelled
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I'm pretty much fully digital. I've basically spent a few painstaking days putting sounds into my laptop, just banking them, because I love playing, and I love visually seeing it on my screen and being able to change the sounds more, with different plug-ins. I've created my own synth sounds.
Dev Hynes / Singer-Songwriter
Able
Banking
Digital
My Own
Seeing
Pretty
Basically
Days
Few
Fully
Laptop
Painstaking
Putting
Screen
Sounds
Spent
Synth
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Da was a real fisherman. But it wasn't the catch that mattered, it was the skill of the cast, the preparation of the flies. I often think my inability to prepare, my desire to get going, are a direct result of watching my father making all those painstaking preparations before he cast his line.
Terry Wogan / Television Presenter
Fisherman
Inability
Preparation
Catch
Mattered
Painstaking
Skill
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As someone who has spent many years marveling at the brilliant and painstaking work of the doctors, scientists and researchers at St. Jude, I can attest firsthand to the bone-deep commitment these men and women have made in their fight against disease. They are at it around the clock - every hour of the day, every day of the year.
Marlo Thomas / Actress
Brilliant
Clock
Commitment
Disease
Doctors
Fighting
Men And Women
Researchers
Work Men Women
Attest
Work Women Men
Firsthand
Hour
Jude
Painstaking
Scientists
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