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• When you're doing an out-and-out comedy, the notion of preparing for a character - I hope I don't reveal too much of myself here - but, uh, no, I'm not doing anything.

  Will Ferrell

  Character, Too Much, Comedy

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• I am a person who dreads any kind of public exposure and any kind of public event. I spend all day, if I have to do a reading, preparing.

  Junot Diaz

  Reading, Events, Kind

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• The Israeli military plays more than a critical role in defending the citizens of the Jewish state. It also plays an important social, scientific and psychological role in preparing its young citizens for the challenging task of being Israelis in a difficult world.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Military, Play, Challenges

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• In order to have good fried chicken, you should wash and season the bird the morning you're preparing it for dinner. Don't wait and do it right before you start cooking. Throw it in the refrigerator, seasoned, that morning, and give it a chance to soak up all the salt and pepper and goodness.

  Paula Deen

  Morning, Order, Giving

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• I mean, a lot of time rehearsals are taken up with other things other than preparing a character.

  John Malkovich

  Taken, Character, Mean

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• A friend of mine had this great theory about the Teletubbies, that it's preparing us for being mindless. And getting us ready for living in an underground world. That's why the scenery is so flat.

  Rachel McAdams

  World, Theory, Scenery

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. June 23, 2004.

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• You might indeed be able to provide this money that people need to start a business, but can they run a business? This new consolidated agency [National Empowerment Fund] focuses on that matter of preparing people so that they can run business successfully.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Running, Agency, People

  Source: www.gov.za

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• There is always the risk of being over-confident when you are preparing to face a weaker player.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Player, Risk, Faces

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• I do endless chopping and preparing things. I really find that relaxing. I do a lot of thinking as I am chopping and cooking.

  Kate Winslet

  Thinking, Cooking, Chopping

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• I think that really what our training, what our culture, our religious institutions, our educational and cultural institutions should be about is preparing the heart for that journey outside of the cage of the ribs.

  Leonard Cohen

  Religious, Educational, Heart

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Those who are preparing for the coming of Christ should be sober, and watch unto prayer, for our adversary, the Devil, goeth about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour; whom we are to resist steadfast in the faith.

  Ellen G. White

  Prayer, Devil, Roaring

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• Our agreements on creating the conditions for preparing a peace treaty [with Japan] should be rooted in this trust. This may be achieved, for example, by large-scale economic activities that will also cover the Kuril Islands. It may be achieved by solving purely humanitarian issues, for instance, unhindered visa-free travel by former residents of the Southern Kuril Islands to where they used to live: visiting cemeteries, native places and so on.

  Vladimir Putin

  Creating, Issues, Islands

  Source: www.rt.com

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• I actually haven't even found a curriculum in America that is really preparing people for this 21st century world.

  Alexis Ohanian

  America, People, World

  Source: www.fool.com

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• That's where the outrage should be, not old news, but the fact that we are preparing for the transfer of power. and we have been working with President [Barack] Obama, hand in glove, and I think that they - including the president - should step up and get his people in line and tell them to grow up and accept the fact that they lost the election.

  John Lewis

  Growing Up, Thinking, Hands

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Once again, the puppets on Capitol Hill are about to slam the Muppets on Main Street. The country still hasn't recovered from the Wall Street-induced financial cataclysm of 2008, yet Congress is preparing to enact the Orwellian 'JOBS Act' - a bill that should in fact be called the 'Return Fraud to Wall Street in One Easy Step Act.'

  Eliot Spitzer

  Country, Jobs, Wall

  "Kill the JOBS Act!" by Eliot Spitzer, www.slate.com. March 19, 2012.

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• We're all products of what we want to project to the world. Even people who don't spend any time, or think they don't, on preparing themselves for the world out there - I think that ultimately they have for their whole lives groomed themselves to be a certain way, to present a face to the world.

  Cindy Sherman

  Thinking, People, World

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• As a kid, I'd go into the bathroom when I was having a tantrum. I'd be in the bathroom crying, studying myself in the mirror. I was preparing for future roles.

  Adam Sandler

  Kids, Mirrors, Roles

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• I'm an expert cook when it comes to preparing the quail, ducks, geese and wild turkeys that I hunt on the farm.

  Jimmy Carter

  Turkeys, Ducks, Experts

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

  Eden Phillpotts

  Hurt, Adversity, Done

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• The notion that you would initiate a new product without preparing the way by persuasion and advertising and salesmanship is fantastic. It's an integral part of the system.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Way, Advertising, Persuasion

  Source: progressive.org

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• And the Institute sent me a little film footage of Kinsey himself preparing to do an interview for television to talk about his work, so that was quite valuable for me.

  Liam Neeson

  Television, Littles, Interviews

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• The best beauty trick I've learned is "less is best." For example, when I'm preparing to go out for the day, something as simple as putting some concealer underneath my eyes with a bit of highlighter automatically gives me a natural and fresh look. If I do that with a little bronzer, then I'm good to go for the day.

  Ciara

  Eye, Simple, Giving

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Soon after a disaster passes, we tend to turn our eyes away and focus our resources on the day-to-day, rather than on preparing for the rare, but foreseeable and potentially catastrophic disaster. It's another form of triage, how much we invest in preparing for that, a very important question for public policy. We are a short-sighted species.

  Sheri Fink

  Eye, Focus, Important

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Mom and Dad had a lot to answer for, she decided. She couldn’t even be rude to evil vampires who’d caged her boyfriend and were preparing to roast him alive.

  Rachel Caine

  Mom, Dad, Evil

  Rachel Caine (2010). “The Morganville Vampires:”, p.572, Penguin

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• You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Eras, Study

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