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I'm not mad about movies, there are too many people involved in the making of them, and they lack a definitive creative focus.

~David Bailey

Topics: About Creative Definitive Focus Involved Lack Mad Making Many Movies People Them Too Too Many People

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'The 25th Hour' came out of the decision - a really very conscious decision - that I needed a story set within a compressed time frame because that would help focus the story.

~David Benioff

Topics: Because Came Conscious Conscious Decision Decision Focus Frame Help Hour Needed Out Really Set Story Time Time Frame Very Within Would

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Fox prefers to focus on people who are doing bad - especially if they're Democrats, or environmentalists.

~David Brock

Topics: Bad Democrats Doing Environmentalists Focus Fox People Who

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I certainly agree that putting everything into little genres is counterproductive. You're not going to get too many surprises if you only focus on the stuff that fits inside the box that you know.

~David Byrne

Topics: Agree Box Certainly Counterproductive Everything Fits Focus Genres Get Going Inside Know Little Many Only Putting Stuff Surprises Too You

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I believe that in life, you have to give things your best shot, do your best. You have to focus on what needs to be done, do the right thing, not the popular thing.

~David Cameron

Topics: Believe Best Do The Right Thing Do Your Best Done Focus Give Life Needs Popular Right Right Thing Shot The Right Thing Thing Things You Your I Believe I Believe That

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In a global race, can we really justify the huge number of expensive peripheral European institutions? Can we justify a commission that gets ever larger? Can we carry on with an organisation that has a multibillion pound budget but not enough focus on controlling spending and shutting down programmes that haven't worked?

~David Cameron

Topics: Budget Carry Commission Controlling Down Enough European Ever Expensive Focus Gets Global Huge Huge Number Institutions Justify Larger Number Organisation Peripheral Pound Programmes Race Really Shutting Spending Worked

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Acting was absolutely my first focus. I graduated high school in L.A., and two weeks afterwards, I moved to New York City, and I got a job in a mail room, and I got an agent, doing what actors do, with head shots and all the rest of it.

~David Cassidy

Topics: Absolutely Acting Actor Afterwards Agent City Doing First Focus Got Graduated Head High High School Job Mail Moved New New York New York City Rest Room School Shots Two Two Weeks Weeks York

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The Momofuku Culinary Lab started as a space where we could focus on creating and innovating. I didn't want us to worry about working on projects in a restaurant; there are just too many distractions in service and running a kitchen to be able to focus on creating your dishes.

~David Chang

Topics: Able About Could Creating Culinary Dishes Distractions Focus Just Kitchen Lab Many Projects Restaurant Running Service Space Started Too Us Want Where Working Worry Your

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Word books traditionally focus on unusual and quirky items. They tend to ignore the words that provide the skeleton of the language, without which it would fall apart, such as 'and' and 'what,' or words that provide structure to our conversation, such as 'hello.'

~David Crystal

Topics: Apart Books Conversation Fall Focus Hello Ignore Items Language Our Provide Quirky Skeleton Structure Tend Unusual Which Without Word Words Would

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Text messaging is just the most recent focus of people's anxiety; what people are really worried about is a new generation gaining control of what they see as their language.

~David Crystal

Topics: About Anxiety Control Focus Gaining Generation Just Language Messaging Most New New Generation People Really Recent See Text Worried

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