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The beauty of football is you have to perform through ups and downs in a public form with a team and the discipline and the pushing through it and the preparation that it takes to be great - all of those things have served me well.
Nnamdi Asomugha
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Discipline
Preparation
Pushing
Downs
Served
Ups
Ups And Downs
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Part of my preparation is I go and ask the kit man what colour we're wearing - if it's red top, white shorts, white socks or black socks. Then I lie in bed the night before the game and visualise myself scoring goals or doing well.
Wayne Rooney
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Soccer Player
Men
Bed
Colour
Lying
Night
Preparation
Red
Shorts
Lie
Wearing
Scoring
Socks
Visualise
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Look for the [actor training] program that's right for you, above all else. It's really about your training and preparation. Once you arrive on the professional scene, the cream tends to rise, regardless of what school you attended.
Rachel Hoffman
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Preparation
School
Training
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We all profess to believe when we're told that this world should be used merely as a preparation for the next; and yet there is something so cold and comfortless in the theory that we do not relish the prospect even for our children.
Anthony Trollope
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Novelist
Believe
Children
Preparation
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I'm fortunate that my job gives me the motivation to be as fit as possible. I wound up in a profession that requires physical and mental preparation, so I get to prepare like an athlete for everything I do. I'm living the dream, man.
Mark Wahlberg
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Actor
Dream
Jobs
Athlete
Fortunate
Motivation
Preparation
Profession
Mental
Requires
Wound
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To approach animals in their most natural, native settings. I have to understand the mysteries of their behavior. With careful preparation, I can show the animal in its best light, demonstrating its beauty, strength and intelligence.
Paul Nicklen
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Photographer
Animal
Light
Preparation
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Western philosophers gained access to Asian and African traditions initially by noting similarities and differences. But that, as A.C. Mukerji, of Allahabad, was to note in 1932, is not to do philosophy, but is at best a preparation.
Jay L. Garfield
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Author
Differences
Philosophy
Preparation
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I am not a chef. I can't claim that title. The difference is a cook doesn't have a degree. A chef has formal education. It has nothing to do with talent or actual preparation - one just can't claim the title if you don't have degree.
Anna Pump
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Education
Chef
Formal
Formal Education
Preparation
Talent
Actual
Cook
Claim
Degree
Difference
Title
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You know, I'm never really 100-percent in any of those fights, because it's so hard to have perfect preparation for fighting and cutting weight and making 170 pounds, and being in the best shape for training camp and to make that cut.
Nick Diaz
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Mixed Martial Artist
Cutting
Fighting
Perfect
Pounds
Preparation
Training
Weight
Camp
Cut
Shape
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Sarah Palin lacked the preparation or temperament to be one heartbeat away from the presidency, but what she possessed in abundance was the ability to inflame political passions and energize the John McCain campaign with star quality.
Roger Ebert
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Film Critic
Quality
Abundance
Heartbeat
Mccain
Palin
Passion
Political
Possessed
Preparation
Presidency
Stars
Temperament
Campaign
Star
Inflame
John
Passions
Sarah Palin
Sarah
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I think the action is ninety-three percent, and the consideration is peppered throughout but pretty short... Once I start it, I feel as though I don't want to look over my shoulder too much. I want to trust the preparations I've made.
Chang-Rae Lee
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Novelist
Preparation
Thinking
Want
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For my training camp against George Groves my main sparring partner was a 6ft 7inch cruiserweight who fought nothing like George. It was just wrong. Wrong preparation. I was as fit as could be, but strategically I didn't prepare right.
Chris Eubank, Jr.
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Professional Boxer
Preparation
Sparring
Fought
Partner
Strategically
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The decision to serve a mission will shape the spiritual destiny of the missionary, his or her spouse, and their posterity for generations to come. A desire to serve is a natural outcome of one's conversion, worthiness, and preparation.
Russell M. Nelson
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Surgeon
Conversion
Decision
Desire
Destiny
Generations
Missionary
Natural
Posterity
Preparation
Spiritual
Spouse
Worthiness
Come
Her
His
Mission
Outcome
Serve
Shape
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Every Olympic athlete prepares differently. For me, I am 100 percent into the sport. And if I decide to really make a crucial career decision to say, 'This is something I want to do,' I want to leave no stone unturned in my preparation.
Apolo Ohno
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Short Track Speed Skater
Sports
Athlete
Careers
Crucial
Preparation
Decision I Am Me
Olympic
Stone
Unturned
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When you work for Pat Riley, you're not just putting your hands on the basket and hanging out during practice. He puts you in positions where you have to coach. You have to be enthusiastic and fierce with your preparation and work ethic.
Erik Spoelstra
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Basketball Coach
Enthusiastic
Practice
Preparation
Work Ethic
Work Where Your
Basket
Coach
Ethic
Hanging
Pat
Positions
Puts
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I'm not a method actor but it certainly does help to have that kind of dedication. I treated my preparation like I was in the military. I didn't go out ever. I went out for drinks probably twice in five months. I lived very monastically.
Patrick Heusinger
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Dedication
Military
Preparation
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Essentially, social education is moral education, and moral education is preparation for citizenship... When Jefferson and others advocated public education, it was to prepare for citizenship in a new, constitutional, democratic society.
Lawrence Kohlberg
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Psychologist
Democratic
Democratic Society
Moral
Preparation
Public Education
Social
Constitutional
Public
Essentially
Jefferson
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It's very rewarding to see the movie, and it's very rewarding to make the movie, but playing the character [Riddick] is sometimes a lot more difficult than other characters because it takes so much preparation to get into that character.
Vin Diesel
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Actor
Character
Preparation
Sometimes
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If you prepare yourself at every point as well as you can, with whatever means you may have, however meager they may seem, you will be able to grasp opportunity for broader experience when it appears. Without preparation you cannot do it.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Former First Lady Of The United States
Opportunity
Mean
Preparation
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To do more of a concert thing, it takes so much preparation. You don't just show up and wing it. You're putting countless hours in the studio, not just to write and produce stuff, but to come up with edits and special things for the show.
Kaskade
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Dj
Preparation
Produce
Concert
Countless
Edit
Wing
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We can never have too much preparation and training. We must be a strong competitor. We must adhere staunchly to the basic principle that anything less than full equality is not enough. If we compromise on that principle our soul is dead.
Ralph Bunche
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Diplomat
Equality
Preparation
Soul
Strong
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I've put myself in the best possible positions through my daily training and my recovery processes and my offseason regimen and preparation. I break down when I have these freak injuries happen, when the hard work is basically thrown out.
Blake Griffin
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Basketball Player
Freak
Preparation
Recovery
Thrown
Best Work Myself
Injuries
Positions
Processes
Regimen
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The only industries that function well are the industries that take responsibility for training. The Japanese, you know, assume that when you first come to work you know absolutely nothing. School isn't preparation for work and never was.
Peter Drucker
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Author
Preparation
Responsibility
School
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As an actor, you always find your way. You have whatever preparation techniques you use, and you just go with the scene when you're on set. You can only plan so much when you're working, because things have to come naturally in the scene.
Alexandra Breckenridge
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Actress
Preparation
Scene
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My physical preparation for a series starts at least 10, 15 days before it begins, but mentally around a month before I start visualising things as to which bowling attack I will be facing, the conditions I will encounter and other things.
Ajinkya Rahane
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Bowling
Conditions
Preparation
Mentally
Begins
Encounter
Facing
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The joining together of a man and a woman to be legally and lawfully wed not only is preparation for future generations to inherit the earth, but it also brings the greatest joy and satisfaction that can be found in this mortal experience.
L. Tom Perry
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Men
Joy
Preparation
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In preparation for a career in academic medicine, I worked as a medical house officer at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital from 1966 to 1968 and then joined Ira Pastan's laboratory at the National Institutes of Health as a Clinical Associate.
Harold E. Varmus
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Scientist
Academic
Institute
Ira
Laboratory
Medicine
Preparation
Associate
Clinical
Hospital
Joined
Officer
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Assuming that tomorrow will be the same as today is poor preparation for living. It equips us only for disappointment or, more likely, for shock. To live well, to be mentally healthy, we must learn to realize that life is a work in process.
Joan D. Chittister
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Nun
Disappointment
Healthy
Preparation
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I was a Social Science major in college, with an emphasis in secondary education. I took as many courses on the American colonial era and westward expansion as I could. This turned out to be wonderful preparation for writing fantasy novels.
Rae Carson
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Courses
Emphasis
Preparation
Secondary Education
Colonial
Westward
Secondary
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If you're sitting in the audience, you probably can't see the preparation and work that goes into creating a great scene or a great part, but I can assure you that a good film depends on lot of different things falling perfectly into place.
Tobey Maguire
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Actor
Creating
Depends
Different Things
Fall
Preparation
Scene
Sitting
Work Good Great
Assure
Falling
Good Film
Great Part
Perfectly
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To be clear, I normally climb with a rope and partner. Free-soloing makes up only a small percentage of my total climbing. But when I do solo, I manage the risk through careful preparation. I don't solo anything unless I'm sure I can do it.
Alex Honnold
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Rock Climber
Careful
Clear
Climbing
Preparation
Risk
Rope
Solo
Anything
Sure
Through
Climb
Total
Small
Makes
Normally
Partner
Percentage
Unless
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You see something or hear a sound, and there you have everything just as it is. [...] Whatever you do, it should be an expression of the same deep activity. We should appreciate what we are doing. There is no preparation for something else.
Shunryu Suzuki
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Appreciate
Expression
Preparation
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I used to be someone that needed nine hours of sleep; otherwise, I didn't think I was going to sound good when I sang, and I was very disciplined and anal about my preparation. When you become a parent, there just isn't that time, you know?
Idina Menzel
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Actress
Nine
Parent
Preparation
Time Good Preparation
Disciplined
Sang
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'The Dance Scene' is just a real look at what it takes. You see the award shows. You see the videos and you never realize what goes on behind the scenes. The reality and the preparation. The motivation I have to give each dancer on that set.
Laurieann Gibson
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Choreographer
Award Shows
Preparation
Award
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For me, being able to be vulnerable is difficult, but it's just something that I feel comfortable doing. I need to fully understand why, the thought-process behind the character and I have to believe it. That comes from a lot of preparation.
Logan Lerman
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Actor
Believe
Character
Preparation
Fully
Character Believe Me
Just Something
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Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military.
Barack Obama
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44Th U.s. President
War
Administration
Afghanistan
Iraq
Military
Operations
Pace
Preparation
Stability
Terrorism
Transformation
Defensive
Reduced
Revealed
This Administration
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I tend to think of the reading of any book as preparation for the next reading of it. There are always intervening books or facts or realizations that put a book in another light and make it different and richer the second or the third time.
Marilynne Robinson
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Novelist
Intervening
Preparation
Richer
Third
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No man is in love when he marries. He may have loved before; I have even heard he has sometimes loved after: but at the time never. There is something in the formalities of the matrimonial preparations that drive away all the little cupidons.
Fanny Burney
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Novelist
Men
May
Preparation
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When I was about 17 I was on the G.B. squad and that's where I wanted to be. I went to the Commonwealth Games and got silver there, but the three years I was on the team it was London-this, London-that. It was all preparation for the Olympics.
Callum Smith
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Commonwealth
Olympics
Preparation
Silver
Squad
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I may demonstrate the various stages of making a loaf on stage, but they don't end up in the final product I lift out of the oven at the end. If it were real food preparation, I'd wear a hair net, a hat, and rubber gloves - not a pretty sight.
Paul Hollywood
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Gloves
Preparation
Rubber
Sight
Demonstrate
Hat
Lift
Loaf
Net
Oven
Stages
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I have so far enjoyed my preparation with red ball cricket. The Duke ball swings a lot when you're here in England, and initially, when I started playing here with India A, I realized that the swing will come a lot into play in these conditions.
Rishabh Pant
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Conditions
Cricket
Preparation
Duke
Initially
Swing
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I think a large part of an actor's job in preparation is just making the words feel organic to them, and obviously they came out of me, so they felt organic to me already. And then I think then it was all about clearing away all the other voices.
Zoe Kazan
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Film Actress
Preparation
Thinking
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The game is not won by a pep talk on Saturday. It's won by preparation of your club from Monday until game time. If they're not ready on Saturday, you're not going to get them ready by trying to inspire them with a dog-eat-dog sermon on that day.
Ara Parseghian
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American Football Player
Inspire
Monday
Pep
Preparation
Saturday
Time Game Day
Sermon
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A character like Baahubali required a preparation that I had to undergo mentally and physically - from undertaking a strict routine and a lifestyle, which helped me become the character physically, to knowing the character's depth and a lot more.
Prabhas
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Depth
Lifestyle
Preparation
Routine
Strict
Physically
Mentally
Required
Undergo
Undertaking
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Things are going very smoothly. As expected, there are some minor glitches, and the eight minutes that it took us to get to orbit, we trained months and months for, and didn't have to use any of that preparation, other than being aware and ready.
Laurel Clark
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Medical Doctor
Eight
Orbit
Preparation
Ready
Aware
Minor
Smoothly
Trained
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Together we can and must fight for justice for our children and protect them from draconian tax cuts and budget choices that threaten their survival, education and preparation for the future. If they are not ready for tomorrow, neither is America.
Marian Wright Edelman
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Activist
Children
Choices
Cutting
Draconian
Fighting
Preparation
Protect
Ready
Survival
Tax Cuts
Tomorrow
Tax
Budget
Cuts
Fight
Neither
Threaten
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I don't like the idea that the first preparation when you start to design your building has to put your label. I think this is not fair. It's not fair to the building or to the people, to the client, because every building tells a different story.
Renzo Piano
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Architect
Design
Not Fair
Preparation
Client
Different Story
Fair
Label
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Preparation is a mentality... With wrestling being my background, I've always learned to overwork, overwork. Work, work, work, work. It's not always the talented that wins, but it's the one who puts in the most preparation and thought into things.
Dominick Cruz
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Mixed Martial Artist
Mentality
Overwork
Preparation
Talented
Puts
Wins
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You know, I think playing doubles definitely helps your singles game in all aspects. Just being able to get that match practice, match preparation before playing singles matches. Then it also builds confidence just getting wins from doubles, yeah.
Jennifer Brady
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Preparation
Singles
Aspects
Your Game Confidence
Builds
Doubles
Matches
Wins
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For me, when working on a film or play or television show, everything for me starts with the screenplay and I am devoted to that and that is what I work from. Any research I do or any preparation I do on my own is all ultimately in service of that.
James Spader
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Actor
Devoted
Play
Preparation
Research
Work I Am Me
Screenplay
Television Show
Ultimately
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