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It always takes the truth a little bit longer to cross the finish line.


Kim Basinger
What they told us about 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' when we first started was that we were guaranteed 26 episodes, so that was the longest job I've ever had. And that was basically it - we didn't know what the premise of the show was going to be and we waited, week by week, to see a script.
Marina Sirtis
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I actually wanted to be a police officer like my dad for the longest time, up until my sophomore year in high school when I started doing plays. I did plays when I was little, but in high school, I started getting into acting.
Chad Lindberg
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To succeed in life in today's world, you must have the will and tenacity to finish the job.


Chin-Ning Chu
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Our manifesto to the British people promised to finish the job of police reform. And that is exactly what I intend to do.
Theresa May
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I knew I wanted to write novels, but I could not finish what I started. The closer I got, the more ways I'd find to screw it up.
Steven Pressfield
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I was pretty ambitious as a child to want to be a star with the talent I had, but I want to finish what I started and bring the fans along with me.
John Otway
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The longest, most solid and complex relationship in my life is with my mother. It started before I was born, and now, when I am 71 and living in California and she is 92 and living in Chile, we are still in touch daily.
Isabel Allende
I went to college a little bit, and that didn't work out, and I didn't finish. So, I would play in bars until I ran out of money, and then I'd get a real job.
Chris Stapleton
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I have this thing that, once I finish a movie, I never see it again.


Alfonso Cuaron
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I used to go from one job to another. I started at seven years old in theater and used to go from one job to another.
Dick Van Patten
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I think the astronaut job is the best job in the world. I realized when I was older and started applying for it that it's a pretty cool job.
Michael J. Massimino
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I started out in theater and then I got a job on a soap in New York.


Linden Ashby
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It takes a lot out of you to do a one-hour episodic lead of a show. I don't think actors realize that when they take the job.
Jane Krakowski
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I started acting when I got a summer job at the Everyman Theater Company with the Neighborhood Youth Corps.
Robert Gossett
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Working for Oprah is a dream come true. She was on my dream board for the longest time.


Tika Sumpter
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I started writing at the kitchen table after midnight. It took ten months to finish that first book; I sent it to a publisher and I got some kind of prize, so it was like a dream - I was surprised to find it happening.
Haruki Murakami
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Whenever you have taken up work in hand, you must see it to the finish. That is the ultimate secret of success. Never, never, never give up!
Dada Vaswani
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Toward the end of school I started watching movies. Got a job in a movie theater in Brookline, Massachusetts.
Jim McKay
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When I started doing music full time, I figured out my job wasn't something I needed to be completely sober for.
Brantley Gilbert
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