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Some people think memoirs should be held to a perfect journalistic standard. Some people don't. Obviously I don't. My goal was never to create or to write a perfect journalistic standard of my life. It was always to be as literature.
James Frey
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Writer
Journalistic
Literature
People
Thinking
Writing
Life My Life People
Life Literature My Life
Held
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Countries that are agricultural can, at a low standard of living, sustain themselves. You can be self-sufficient; the money economy is a relatively insignificant part of the total economy. Singapore never was an agricultural country.
Lee Kuan Yew
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Singaporean Politician
Economy
Insignificant
Self Sufficient
Singapore
Living
Agricultural
Countries
Total
Low
Standard
Relatively
Sustain
Themselves
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In 1925, when Britain went back to the gold standard, that was supported by the Conservative Party, the Labour Party, the Bank of England, the civil service, the CBI, the TUC, the Times, the Economist; that consensus was very strong.
Ed Balls
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British Politician
Britain
Civil Service
Consensus
Conservative
Conservative Party
Economist
England
Gold
Gold Standard
Labour
Labour Party
Party
Strong
Bank
Civil
Standard
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Women in figure skating, like in every other industry, are expected to conform to an unrealistic standard of beauty. Unhealthy habits are often encouraged to promote a thin frame, and young girls idealize a skewed definition of 'fit.'
Tessa Virtue
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Conform
Expected
Figure Skating
Skating
Unhealthy
Definition
Encouraged
Figure
Frame
Habits
Idealize
Standard
Promote
Skewed
Thin
Young Girls
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Ang Lee is very precise. He will show you everything, and will let you know what he is thinking about the whole project. There are a lot of rehearsals before shooting, and you already reach a certain standard. Then he will ask for more.
Tony Leung Chiu Wai
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Film Actor
Precise
Shooting
Ang
Ang Lee
Lee
Standard
Rehearsals
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Vellimoonga' works at the box office because there is an inherent honesty to the film. Nothing about the movie has been exaggerated; it's a comedy that is clean and maintains a certain standard that harks back to Malayalam cinema's past.
Biju Menon
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Box Office
Exaggerated
Honesty
Inherent
Standard
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What we say is that democracy means that you have the right to vote without intimidation and undue burdens. But if you stand in line for six hours, technically, today there is no document, no standard, no law that says that that's wrong.
Deforest Soaries
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Author
Democracy
Hours
Intimidation
Law
Mean
Six
Vote
Burdens
Document
Technically
Line
No Law
Standard
Says
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If a State has reliable scientific information that demonstrates that a warning is needed for a particular food, then in the interest of public health, it should share that information with the FDA and petition for a new national standard.
Nathan Deal
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Governor Of Georgia
Fda
Information
Public Health
Warning
Standard
Petition
Reliable
Scientific
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That was something we were trying to figure out: Are we allowed to do a jazz song? Are we allowed to do cabaret? Just from hearing the Beatles, it was like, 'Well, they did it. It's okay to write something other than a standard rock song.'
Ryan Ross
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Guitarist
Cabaret
Standard
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The reason the FISA standard is constitutional is that the government is supposed to use FISA surveillance not for criminal investigations but for counterintelligence probes pursued under the president's authority to conduct foreign policy.
Benjamin Wittes
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Authority
Counterintelligence
Foreign Policy
Policy
President
Pursued
Surveillance
Conduct
Constitutional
Criminal
Investigations
Standard
Supposed
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At Mardi Gras, the different tribes will basically play war games, and so my brother is what you call a Flag Boy, which is more of less like a tribe's diplomat. He carries the game's standard and is really the line of where the game starts.
Christian Scott
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Jazz Trumpeter
Tribes
Carries
Diplomat
Flag
Standard
Tribe
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Anytime you want to hear about graph partitioning, I will be glad to tell you what I know about graph partitioning. It remains a standard problem. I think it's an interesting problem, because it shows up in a variety of guises in real life.
Brian Kernighan
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Computer Scientist
Glad
Real Life
Remains
Variety
Anytime
Life Real Will
Graph
Standard
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The result has been that although few conservative Presbyterian churches actually worship in the Puritan way, the Puritan theology of worship remains the standard orthodoxy among them. This discrepancy sometimes leads to guilty consciences.
John Frame
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Conservative
Guilty
Orthodoxy
Puritan
Remains
Theology
Worship
Although
Among
Presbyterian
Churches
Discrepancy
Leads
Standard
Result
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I think that, a lot of times in Hollywood pictures, the reality, the messy reality of women's lives - it's avoided, because I think people are just afraid of it. There's a standard that women are set to, to try to keep everybody comfortable.
Haley Bennett
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Film Actress
Avoided
Messy
Standard
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The longtime standard for American TV was 525 lines from top to bottom of the image. As a practical matter, that was roughly equivalent to 350 thousand pixels - pretty crude, given that photos made with your iPhone boast five million pixels.
Seth Shostak
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Astronomer
Boast
Bottom
Crude
Iphone
Thousand
Equivalent
Longtime
Standard
Practical
Roughly
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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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Russia under President Putin is less democratic and less free today than when he assumed office. If Russia cannot fulfill its obligation to the G-8 and maintain a high standard of democratic governance then its membership should be suspended.
Vito Fossella
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Politician
Democratic
Governance
Membership
Obligation
Office
President
Putin
Russia
Suspended
Assumed
Fulfill
High Standard
Maintain
Standard
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The first award that I recall having received was in the form of a scholarship when I was studying in the 5th standard. I was granted this scholarship for achieving academic excellence, and it continues to be one of the high points in my life.
Pankaj Patel
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Academic
Excellence
Granted
Scholarship
Achieving
Award
Standard
Points
Recall
Studying
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When a man wrote a political screed against the IRS and flew into its building, he was deemed mentally ill, even though it was clearly a political act. There's a double standard, which is: If his name is Muhammad, it's automatically terrorism.
Hamza Yusuf
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Scholar
Flew
Ill
Irs
Muhammad
Terrorism
Mentally
Automatically
Clearly
Deemed
Double
Standard
Political Act
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I'm very rigid about my schedule. I sit down at 8 A.M., and the Internet blocker goes on. My standard time is 120 minutes. I'm a compulsive writer, so it reminds me to stop writing... If I write more than that, I turn into an ogre for my kids.
Claire Cameron
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Novelist
Time Me Internet
Ogre
Standard
Reminds
Rigid
Schedule
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The main criticism that I get is, 'Aren't you just conforming to a patriarchal standard of beauty?' Well, this is just the body I was given. I didn't do anything to it - it's just my body. But even if I had altered it, that would be fine, too.
Emily Ratajkowski
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Model
Altered
Criticism
Fine
Conforming
Main
Standard
Patriarchal
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The poorer is a family, the greater is the proportion of the total outgo which must be used for food... The proportion of the outgo used for food, other things being equal, is the best measure of the material standard of living of a population.
Ernst Engel
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Statistician
Equal
Greater
Population
Proportion
Standards
Material
Measure
Standard
Poorer
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I think more and more that I get to challenge myself and kind of raise the standard for myself every season. Even the term 'fashion' is about change. It's about newness. And what that newness means is different every 10 years, every five years.
Narciso Rodriguez
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Fashion Designer
Newness
More And More
Standard
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Male nudity, full-frontal nudity, has always been considered a lot more taboo than female nudity. As far back as I can remember, there's been a double standard between men and women. I think it's time that men get equal time in terms of nudity.
Darren Star
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Producer
Equal
Female
Men And Women
Taboo
Time Men Women
Male
Considered
Double
Far
Time Women Men
Standard
Terms
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Workers who come to the U.S. see their wages and their standard of living boosted sharply simply by crossing the border. That's a good thing, and one of the best arguments for immigration reform, even if you'll rarely hear a politician make it.
James Surowiecki
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Journalist
Borders
Immigration
Immigration Reform
Reform
Wages
Workers
Crossing
Border
Simply
Good Thing
Standard
Rarely
Sharply
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Stunt performing is a highly structured career path - you have to gain qualifications in six different sports to a high standard. It takes four or five years and costs at least £20,000; a black belt in a martial art from scratch costs a fortune.
Steve Truglia
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Career Path
Performing
Qualifications
Belt
Gain
High Standard
Martial
Standard
Scratch
Structured
Stunt
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The Libertarian position on immigration is to have, not open borders with no restrictions, but to have controlled borders that allow hard-working people to come into America to help raise their standard of living and improve the American economy.
Michael Badnarik
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American Political Figure
America
American Economy
Borders
Controlled
Economy
Hard Work
Immigration
Libertarian
People
Position
Allow
Hard-Working
Living People America
Improve
Standard
Raise
Restrictions
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Somewhere along the line, a concert became a variety show. It was no longer enough for four dudes to play together in front of some guitar amps. Costume changes, an army of dancers, and Broadway theatrics suddenly became standard for a 'concert.'
Shawn Amos
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Singer-Songwriter
Army
Broadway
Variety
Concert
Costume
Dancers
Dudes
Standard
Suddenly
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Red Carpet Enterprise has been really well received since one guy can install it in about an hour, and it makes it trivial to deal with software management issues like deploying updates and creating standard package sets for your various machines.
Nat Friedman
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Programmer
Carpet
Creating
Deploying
Enterprise
Guy
Issues
Machines
Management
Red
Red Carpet
Software
About An Hour
Hour
Install
Standard
Package
Received
Sets
Trivial
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I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.
Smedley Butler
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Author
Banking
Brother
China
Dominican Republic
House
International
Light
Nicaragua
Oil
Republic
Sugar
American
Brothers
Helped
Interests
Standard
Purify
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And when they brought me in for the first ever episode of 'The Chase,' they still hadn't figured out the format so I was helping them to play test it and then come up with the right standard of questions. So it's my fault they can be really tough!
Jenny Ryan
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Format
Chase
Episode
Figured
Standard
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Getting a pedicure seems to be a standard pre-birth ritual, presumably because it is relaxing and makes you feel pretty even though your little piggies are going to be covered in those awesome no-skid hospital socks which I kept on for three days.
Faith Salie
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Covered
Ritual
Awesome
Hospital
Standard
Presumably
Relaxing
Socks
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The organized workers of America, free in their industrial life, conscious partners in production, secure in their homes and enjoying a decent standard of living, will prove the finest bulwark against the intrusion of alien doctrines of government.
John L. Lewis
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Government
Home
America
Conscious
Decent
Finest
Intrusion
Organization
Organized
Partners
Prove
Secure
Workers
Living
Against
Life Government Free
Alien
Free
Bulwark
Decent Standard
Doctrines
Enjoying
Homes
Industrial
Production
Standard
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Everybody in life is pursuing money: left, right, charity, nonprofits, everybody's pursuing money. Everybody wants a raise. Everybody wants to improve their standard of living. Everybody wants to be rich, and especially those that go to Washington.
Rush Limbaugh
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Talk Show Host
Charity
Left
Nonprofits
Rich
Want
Life Money Living
Life Money Rich
Washington
Standard
Pursuing
Raise
Wants
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I would caution against fueling cheap populism. First of all, every German who has spent a vacation in Greece knows that the standard of living there isn't higher than it is in Germany. Second, Greece is paying a high price for European assistance.
Wolfgang Schauble
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Former Federal Minister Of The Interior (Germany)
Vacation
Assistance
Caution
Firsts
Germany
Greece
Standards
German
Cheap
First Of All
High Price
Standard
Paying
Price
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Nike used to be known as Blue Ribbon Sports. What's now Sara Lee used to be Consolidated Foods. And Exxon was once Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. These were name changes that worked. But for all the ones that do, there are 10 or 20 that don't.
James Surowiecki
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Journalist
Nike
Sports
Blue
Jersey
Names
New Jersey
Consolidated
Foods
Lee
Oil Company
Standard
Ribbon
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The world is a bell curve. Classroom test scores, employee performance in a company or how many people really, really like you. No matter the population you're studying, they always fit neatly across the standard deviations of the famous bell curve.
Simon Sinek
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Author
Famous
Classroom
Curves
Employee
People
Population
Test Scores
Always World People
Famous World People
Across
Bell
Curve
How Many People
Performance
Neatly
Standard
Scores
Studying
Test
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I have never been more proud of the United States than I am this year. We have elected an African-American president. We have the stellar Michelle Obama setting the standard for American women. I simply cannot say it enough: look how far we've come.
Kathryn Stockett
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Novelist
Women
African American
American President
Enough
President
Proud
Setting
States
Stellar
United
United States
Years
Come
Obama
American
Am
Been
Year
Cannot
Women Look I Am
Simply
How
Elected
Say
Far
Look
How Far
Michelle
Michelle Obama
Standard
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Obama is not the messiah any longer. He is now your standard, ordinary, everyday politician who lies, who breaks promises, who's in it for himself, who can't do anything on his own. He's not qualified. All of this is becoming known, sadly, too late.
Rush Limbaugh
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Talk Show Host
Becoming
Everyday
Late
Lying
Messiah
Ordinary
Politician
Promise
Qualified
Too Late
Now
Obama
Any
Own
Breaks
He
Too
Himself
His
Lies
Longer
Standard
Promises
Sadly
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I always like to say our shows should be something that, you know, before 10 o'clock, if your kid wanders into the room, they should be able to glance at the TV, watch what's happening, but not quite know what's happening. That's always my standard.
Shonda Rhimes
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Screenwriter
Always Your Know
Glance
Happening
Standard
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I actually wanted to be a doctor. But doing all those horrid rat dissections made me faint. I studied science till the 12th standard and later took up commerce. I was planning to do chartered accountancy, but fate had something else in store for me.
Bipasha Basu
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Film Actress
Commerce
Doctors
Fate
Planning
Rats
Studied
Doctor
Faint
Horrid
Till
Standard
Rat
Something Else
Store
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We don't tell the officials to change the standard for the playoffs, but as we all know, time and space tends to evaporate very quickly in a playoff game; there tends to be a lot more physicality and a lot more adjustments in the course of a series.
Gary Bettman
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Counsel
Adjustment
Officials
Physicality
Time And Space
Time Change Space
Change Time Space
Evaporate
Change Space Time
Standard
Playoff
Tends
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My dad has kind of been the standard for me, he played 16 years in the league, and since I've been in the league, every year that I go through and deal with the scratches, the bumps and bruises, just the grind that it is to go through one NBA season.
Stephen Curry
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Basketball Player
Bumps
Grind
Nba
Dad Me Go
Standard
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'Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court - whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law's constitutionality.
Gary Bauer
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Activist
Court
Fairness
Legislators
Passing
Subjective
Judges
Standard
Policies
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Lance Guest in 'The Last Starfighter' had such integrity and held himself to such a high standard that I just wanted to raise your own standard to meet it. He is a hard-working, giving actor. He made me feel secure and better in my role opposite him.
Catherine Mary Stewart
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Actress
Secure
Opposite
Guest
Hard-Working
Held
High Standard
Standard
Raise
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Training is such a vital part of preparation for a game, you really do train to play. It tops up your ability, like sharpening a carving knife. You can get away with not doing it for a while, as long as you have reached a certain standard of fitness.
Graeme Le Saux
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Footballer
Fitness
Sports
Carving
Knives
Preparation
Sharpening
Train
Training
Standard
Reached
Tops
Vital
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The life was good in Qatar but I did not enjoy the football. For me, 12 months was enough. The standard was low, but not that low. It was OK but the ambition was not there from the players. It was like playing for nothing. I didn't like that feeling.
Jay-Jay Okocha
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Life Good Football
Standard
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My standard training week, there's a lot of training in there. I have a high-performance coach who manages these spreadsheets of mine, manages my sessions and my loads. It's a very complicated process, and he puts me through about 22 sessions a week.
Robert Whittaker
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Loads
Standard
Puts
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I've finished 12th standard from Poddar International and enrolled for B.A. in political science in Cambridge University, London. It's a correspondence course, and I'll go to London for my exams once a year. That way, I can devote more time to films.
Hansika Motwani
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Cambridge
Correspondence
Finished
Political Science
Devote
Enrolled
Exams
Science Time Political
Once A Year
Standard
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As for Aamir Khan, he keeps raising the standard with every film. For an artist like me or a newcomer like me, we can only look up to that and dream, 'When will that be us someday?' There's so much to learn from him. He is the encyclopedia of acting.
Tiger Shroff
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Encyclopedia
Someday
Me Look Will
Look Me Will
Standard
Raising
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