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• Go pick bananas, we'll run the canal.

  Meldrim Thomson, Jr.

  Running, Peace, War

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• Each acoustic guitar has its own character and personality. On a particular day, I might pick one up and start noodling around, looking for some emotional content in the chords.

  Neil Diamond

  Character, Emotional, Guitar

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• I don't pick the roles. Your agent gets a call for you and you go and they all get together, everybody has fun at the reading, and they say, "There's chemistry here." So that's how it happens.

  Mickey Rooney

  Fun, Reading, Together

  "EXCLUSIVE: Mickey Rooney Reflects on Night at the Museum!". Interview With Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. April 25, 2007.

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• I could never be a part of an adaptation of a film where there's pressure to not disappoint the immense fan base. In those cases, they often wind up with filmed books on tape, quite uncinematic. Having said that, I'd say all the adaptations I've done are quite faithful to the original... You have to pick and choose which storylines and plot threads, because you don't have the time to kill in the film as they have in novels. All those pages with detours and plots and different storylines. But films add a lot, and you gotta keep it moving.

  Alexander Payne

  Moving, Book, Wind

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. November 15, 2011.

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• There's always got to be room for what you might call benign corruption. Nobody blames a man who steals food to feed his starving children, but on the other hand, somebody who picks up a badge and takes an oath to serve and protect; we do expect a certain level of essential honesty.

  Denzel Washington

  Children, Honesty, Men

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• I read everything I could find: books and online. Sometimes bigger revelations came to me through finer details or something that you wouldn't pick up just by surface reading.

  Abbie Cornish

  Book, Reading, Details

  "'Klondike's' Abbie Cornish, Johnny Simmons on Finding Gold in History". Interview with Lesley Goldberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 22, 2014.

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• I'm selfish, I think. I think an artist has to be. I'm not worried about what people think. I play the parts that I find interesting. It'd bother me more to be just pigeonholed into doing what people think is ethical or that's boring to me. I don't pick parts with that in mind, I just find interesting stories. If it's interesting to me, then I do it.

  Denzel Washington

  Selfish, Artist, Thinking

  "Denzel Washington Remembers 'Malcom X' And 'The Wizard Of Oz'". "Fresh Air", www.npr.org. March 1, 2013.

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• Childhood was terrifying for me. A kid has no control. You’re three feet tall, flat broke, unemployed, and illiterate. Terror snaps you awake. You pay keen attention. People can just pick you up and move you and put you down.

  Mary Karr

  Moving, Kids, Feet

  "Mary Karr, The Art of Memoir No. 1". Interview with Amanda Fortini, www.theparisreview.org. 2009.

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• If you ask footballers to pick out the player they most admire, so many of them will pick Paul Scholes.

  Alan Shearer

  Player, Admire, Paul Scholes

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• Just pick a political story at random and read the comments. There is no logic or reason on either side - only hypocrisy and hate.

  Michael Arrington

  Hate, Hypocrisy, Political

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• I would like to pick Rihanna's brain. I love her style and what she does.

  Joan Smalls

  Brain, Style, Doe

  "Joan Smalls on House of Style, Rihanna, and Eating Sugar" by Alex Catarinella, www.elle.com. September 8, 2012.

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• So, in some ways, the political songs tend to be a bit more like reportage, whereas the love songs tend to be like novels, you can pick them up off the shelf and go into them any time.

  Billy Bragg

  Song, Political, Way

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• I'm obviously attuned to pick up mathematics whenever I can see it. But in Mozart there is a lot of conscious use of mathematical symbolism and numbers in order to try and give messages.

  Marcus du Sautoy

  Symbolism, Numbers, Order

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• Whatever is stealing your peace and rocking your boat, what ever is taking your smile away, reach down, pick it up, and throw it overboard.

  Jentezen Franklin

  Your Smile, Boat, Overboard

  Jentezen Franklin (2017). “Right People, Right Place, Right Plan: Discerning the Voice of God”, p.30, Whitaker House

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• I pick and choose what I want to do at any given time, and what not to do, importantly. My agents, I won't hear about any offers or options.

  Martin McDonagh

  Agents, Want, Given

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• Pick up a sunflower and count the florets running into its centre, or count the spiral scales of a pine cone or a pineapple, running from its bottom up its sides to the top, and you will find an extraordinary truth: recurring numbers, ratios and proportions.

  Charles Jencks

  Running, Numbers, Sunflower

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• Economics works great for planning your life when you don't have a work passion, since we tend to assume that your job delivers only money and you trade off job hours with leisure hours. If you think your job will just be a job, pick one that pays well per hour and leaves you some time off, even if the activity of the job is boring.

  Emily Oster

  Jobs, Passion, Thinking

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• I think honesty is the ultimate liberation in life. People want to shy away from the truth and keep sweeping it under the rug. But after a while, you pick up the rug and there's just way too much dirt, so you might as well
  just be up front about it.

  Rihanna

  Honesty, Thinking, People

  "Rihanna Talks: This is My Story". Interview with Logan Hill, www.glamour.com. August 1, 2011.

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• The Farfield Curse is a story you'll want to pick up, but not put down!

  Kaza Kingsley

  Stories, Want, Curse

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• Look, the hard-line Jewish position is based, to this day, on the idea that the Palestinian Arabs somehow or other will either accept third-class status, or they will pick up and go away. Now, this isn't happening.

  Arthur Hertzberg

  Class, Ideas, Going Away

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• You can talk so much. The proof is how you compete to the guy next to you and if a guy makes a mistake, you've got to be there to pick him up and not put him down.

  Anson Carter

  Mistake, Guy, Next

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• So after 11 years you're just picking up all this information. I'm a basketball junky, so I watch old players. The '90s was a great era of basketball. I watched so much of that. That just helped me be a student of the game and pick up any moment. It's the 10,000 hour rule. You're just trying to master your craft.

  Andre Iguodala

  Basketball, Player, Nba Championships

  "Game Quotes: Cavaliers vs. Golden State Warriors - June 16". Interview, scores.nba.com. June 17, 2015.

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• When I was a kid growing up in Kentucky, on lucky summer nights, my cousin would pick me up in his Chevy Super Sport and drive me down along the Ohio River to Cincinnati to hear some rock 'n' roll. Those were exciting times, and the bands would play late into the night, rocking soaked in sweat. When I hear the Ready Stance, these memories come back to me and I remember that Cincinnati has produced so many wonderful musicians. The Ready Stance is among that number. You will be hearing a lot about them in the future.

  Chris Frantz

  Summer, Sports, Cousin

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• I always liked the steel guitar. I also love the guys that play the bottleneck. But I could never do it; I never made it do what I want. So every time I would pick up the guitar, I'd shake my hand and trill it a bit. For some strange reason my ears would say to me that sounds similar to what those guys were doing. I can't pick up the guitar now without doing it. So that's how I got into making my sound. It was nothing pretty. Just trying to please myself. I heard that sound.

  B. B. King

  Guitar, Hands, Play

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• If you stay half-alert, you can pick the spectacular performers right from your place of business or out of the neighborhood shopping mall, and long before Wall Street discovers them.

  Thomas Rowe Price, Jr.

  Wall, Shopping, Long

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