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• I always feel like a doctor who loses a patient on the operating table or something where I felt just devastated and I beat myself up until I get to try it the next night and “I'll get it better tonight.” So I'm hard on myself. I think I'm not alone in that regard with acting.

  Allison Janney

  Thinking, Night, Doctors

  "Interview: ‘Mom’ star Allison Janney talks multi-cam drama, comic grieving". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. April 2, 2015.

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• What dancing has helped me with is blocking; it makes me comfortable with my body. You know how to hit your mark, you know how to embody a swagger. But sitting down and looking across the table at another actor and being able to go to battle on screen is nothing to do with singing or dancing.

  Columbus Short

  Block, Dancing, Singing

  Interview with Nell Minow, moviemom.maxlazebnik.com. December 2, 2009.

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• I think I've proven I can build a team that plays a way of football that excites and challenges at the top end of the table.

  Brendan Rodgers

  Football, Team, Thinking

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• [T]he 47th proposition in Euclid might now be voted down with as much ease as any proposition in politics; and therefore if Lord Hawkesbury hates the abstract truths of science as much as he hates concrete truth in human affairs, now is his time for getting rid of the multiplication table, and passing a vote of censure upon the pretensions of the hypotenuse.

  Sydney Smith

  Hate, Science, Ease

  SYDNEY SMITH (1839). “The Works”, p.374

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• Relationships have always seemed very mysterious, and therefore worth exploring. I’m single, so it’s still kind of a mystery - a worthwhile mystery, one that I want to be on the scent of. I’m not lonely, and I think that has a lot to do with what’s on my bedside table rather than what’s in my bed.

  Michelle Williams

  Lonely, Thinking, Bed

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Judges ought above all to remember the conclusion of the Roman Twelve Tables :The supreme law of all is the weal [weatlh/ well-being] of the people.

  Francis Bacon

  Law, Judging, People

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• To the table or to bed, you must come when you are bid.

  Laura Esquivel

  Bed

  Laura Esquivel (2010). “Like Water For Chocolate”, p.5, Random House

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• I mean if there are going to be missiles that are going off and there are going to be going off over Canadian airspace whether we want it or not, no I don't think that is acceptable. I think that we want to be at the table.

  Paul Martin

  Mean, Thinking, Want

  "CTV Question Period", April 27, 2003.

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• MY TOUGHEST MATCH; is not on the mat. It's at the dinner table and it's at fast food restaurants. It's hearing about the party I can Never go to. It's realizing being a Great Wrestler isn't a sport, It's a LIFE.

  Stephen Neal

  Sports, Party, Dinner

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• Scallops are expensive, so they should be treated with some class. But then, I suppose that every creature that gives his life for our table should be treated with class.

  Jeff Smith

  Food, Class, Giving

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• Unless you turn out to be a shining and ballistic genius, then, trust me, if you want to do this then you're going to be spending the next few years doing little else. This is a thing you do at a table with a notebook and a keyboard, and there's no getting away from it. Put in the hours. You don't get to turn off 'being a writer.'

  Warren Ellis

  Notebook, Years, Shining

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• Another tormentor inquired if it was true that I had installed two ping-pong tables in my basement. I asked, was it a crime? No, he said, but why two? Is that a crime? I countered, and they all laughed.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Two, Mentor, Ping Pong

  Vladimir Nabokov (1992). “Pale fire”

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• There are a lot of people who must have the table laid in the usual fashion or they will not enjoy the dinner.

  Christopher Morley

  Fashion, People, Dinner

  CHRISTOPHER MORLEY (1923). “INWARD HO!”

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• Government schools, with your tax money, now discourage the teaching of multiplication tables by rote memorization but teach reading by the 'look-and-say' method which is memorization of spelling patterns. In doing so, they ensure that children will neither be able to read nor calculate.

  Greg Perry

  Education, Children, Teaching

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• It's really helped a ton in the sense that we get to reach people who don't normally know our music. At least once a night at a show someone will come up to the merch table after the show and say they've never heard of me but they saw me on Troubadour, TX, and it reminds me that I'm not Elvis and anything I can do to get my name out there is beneficial in every way.

  Cody Johnson

  Night, Names, People

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• I don't consciously seek out Australian projects. I put them on the same table as all the other scripts and I wouldn't ever do a film just because it's been shot at home.

  Eric Bana

  Home, Scripts, Film

  "The Other Boleyn Girl - Eric Bana interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I saw so many kids 22, 19, with holes the size of a dime and they're dead. It's a gunshot and of course those kids thought they were as tough as nails, they never expected to be dead but they're gone. It's kinda nice to walk out of the County Coroner's Office with a couple of sayings, you know? "You're not so tough being dead on a morgue table."

  Milo Ventimiglia

  Couple, Nice, Kids

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I have two kids who were like me, we get out of bed feeling good, and the other two would sit at the breakfast table and grumble. I think it's born into us. I usually wake up feeling pretty good. Looking forward to the day.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Kids, Thinking, Two

  "Dick Van Dyke talks to one of our grandmas about his new book on aging, Keep Moving". Interview with Caitlin PenzeyMoog, www.avclub.com. October 13, 2015.

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• I really like the idea of restaurant life, especially in New York where everyone has small apartments - that restaurant culture where you sit at a table for a long time and the afternoon goes by and you're kind of living there. I like that more than nightlife.

  Piper Perabo

  New York, Nightlife, Ideas

  "Piper Perabo’s Culinary Affairs". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 16, 2012.

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• I've been really opinionated my whole life. I was raised to be opinionated. I was raised to debate at the dinner table - my father demanded it - and you had to be able to debate in a confident and clear way.

  Jeanine Tesori

  Father, Dinner, Way

  "Composer Jeanine Tesori on Her Artistic Process and Rewarding Female Ambition". Interview with Victoria Myers, www.indiewire.com. March 27, 2015.

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• I support the idea that artists have to make a stand. I'm with that - you're putting the discussion on the table and you're letting people know. You're being brave as an artist and responsible to the community.

  Talib Kweli

  Artist, Ideas, People

  "Talib Kweli Stands His Ground". Interview with Aj Vicens, www.motherjones.com. August 26, 2013.

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• Women are storytellers, they are communicators. They'll go and sit around a table and talk about their first date, their first smoke, their first lipstick, whatever it is. Those rituals of life, marriages and death aren't part of the language of men.

  Anita Roddick

  Men, Firsts, Language

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• If you do the best thing everyday of your life, but nothing shakes you nor shakes the table for you and others, it is stale and its not worth it.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Everyday, Stale, Shakes

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• You may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman, or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together- what do you get? The sum of their fears.

  Winston Churchill

  Soldier, Together, May

  Quoted in Harold Macmillan, The Blast of War: 1939 - 45 (1968) (entry for 16 Nov. 1943)

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• Hitler never bothered with restaurant reservations; he just dropped by. And somehow they always found him a table.

  George Carlin

  Restaurants, Reservations, Found

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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