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BOBBY PACE As they say, defense wins championships. We put most of our focus on defense. We want to pressure yo...
JANICE CHARLES We should stop trying to find differences between one another, and focus on our similarities.
BEN OAK And when I saw you kissing that girl
My heart, it shattered and my eyes, they watered
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KATE NASH Our Transportation Department has followed the progress of the union contract negotiations closely s...
WILLIAM BENNETT We want the negotiations on forming a new government to proceed quickly.
MATTHIAS PLATZECK We want to focus on Danielle, we want to bring Danielle home,
DAWN DAVIS We want to get people excited about VCP. And we want to encourage researchers to focus on things imp...
ADAM GREENE We want to get people excited [about VCP]. And we want to encourage researchers to focus on things i...
ADAM GREENE We are continuing to meet with representatives of the pilots union, and we continue to make progress...
BILL MELLON We don't want to bring the city to its knees financially. We want to do our jobs safely.
FIREFIGHTER DAVID CUMMINS We want students to focus on academics. We want students in the classroom.
ED CROW We want them to focus on customers and business, but they have to go to London.
DAVID BERKOWITZ We want to improve our readiness and preparedness for April. The core of our team is in place. If we...
MARK SHAPIRO We want to work on our strengths. We wanted to eliminate the retail feel. We are going to try to kee...
DANA SAUVE Both sides worked hard in complex negotiations to create an industry leading contract for pilots whi...
JAMES GOODWIN We work 100 percent on a contract basis, so we don't have products of our own. We want packaging com...
BOB WEBER We want to focus on civil rights and education.
BOBBY POOLE It's a varsity program, so the emphasis is on winning. Winning is more fun. No one likes to lose, bu...
FRIEND WEILER There are people who want to fight for their jobs. We aren't willing to make any concessions. We wan...
DAN LAMB We are committed to being essential in our users' lives and this relationship builds on our focus on...
DAVE GOLDBERG I want them to continue to work hard and also be held more accountable for their actions. The traini...
CLARENCE WILLIAMS I know what you might be thinking here on your own, but those thoughts won’t last for ever,’ I s...
SARAH MOORE FITZGERALD We want to be sensitive on how we deal with that. Because we really are a community, we want to buil...
CHAD HURLEY We want to keep the focus on this event clear,
BILL HYBELS We see this as a continual process in an effort to focus on bringing our customers what they want.
CAROLYN WALTON Show them what they want to see, tell them what they want to hear, when we strike, it will be too la...
POATE J MATAIRAVULA We need a vision that reduces our reliance on fossil fuels. But that's also public policy, and that ...
SARAH WRIGHT They're 2-1 in the league and we're 2-1. It's a very important game for us if we want to get our thi...
JEFF BRENNING Through this strike ballot, the Delta pilots have demonstrated overwhelmingly that they are unified ...
CHARLES GIAMBUSSO They have big shoes to fill. As the defending state champions there are a lot of expectations on the...
KEVIN ALBURY Washington always plays us hard. That teaches our kids patience and perseverance. That's the kind of...
CHESTER SMITH It's purely a strategic decision that we want to make going forward to reshape our business so that ...
BETH BLAKE What will happen if we go to 0 day?
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Everything has been wipe out from the techno...
DEYTH BANGER The stores are under a contract with a potential buyer. The projected settlement is for the end of A...
ARTHUR RHOADS We have advised our dealers that the program will conclude on Sept. 30. We're in the process of laun...
DEBORAH SILVERMAN This could sap thousands of dollars from schools that are already financially strapped to provide ed...
GREG SHIELDS There are endless new variations on how to hurt a woman physically, emotionally, financially, and so...
GLORIA ALLRED I'm hoping to develop a breeding ground. We want to concentrate on the youth level, bring them up th...
JUAN MORENO Coach keeps our heads on our shoulders. We hear (the possibility of going to state) from the communi...
LANCE UHLMEYER We focus on 1 or 2 man response and we show them how to integrate with a much larger unit as other d...
BOB BROWN I want to focus on economic development. I want to work on things to make our county more attractive...
GEORGE BOYKIN We want this to be financially acceptable to Jefferson City.
DAVID SEAMON We are taking significant steps to reduce our cost structure and sharpen our focus on the products a...
WILLIAM ESREY We all have goals: We want to matter. We want to be important. We want to have freedom and power to ...
RYAN HOLIDAY We are pleased that the recent intensive negotiations have produced a tentative agreement for pilots...
RICK DUBINSKY We don't want a policy of confrontation and sanctions and will keep our doors open for negotiations ...
MICHAEL SCHAEFER Our girls really stepped up this season. We tried to get through districts at the top. We not as hap...
DAWN EVANS It's definitely a tough stretch for us. All we can do is play it. We just want to do the best we can...
A.J. MASSENGALE We want to raise $10 million, and we have $4 million so far, ... We want to open next April.
JACKIE JOYNER-KERSEE Our customers are a vital focus for us and we are focused on offering them services that are truly i...
LAURENT MIALET Northwest does not want a strike and we remain actively engaged at the negotiating table. At the sam...
JON AUSTIN We don't want to push our ideas on to customers, we simply want to make what they want.
LAURA ASHLEY The decision by President Bush assures our customers that for at least the next 90 days their travel...
DOUG STEENLAND It's hard when you lose one of your own. Right now we want to focus on his family and his children a...
CARMAN APPLE We want to give them more information without ever having to be on our roads.
JAMES HOFMANN We want to keep that flying within Northwest Airlines and being flown by Northwest pilots. We haven'...
HAL MYERS We see no basis for resuming negotiations. We are operating under a contingency plan implemented aft...
BUD GREBEY We did want to focus on slowing the ball down, but this weekend we'll focus on getting the ball up a...
COACH SCOTT AMEN They are [selective]. [Henderson] preaches [being] selective but aggressive. That's the phrase he li...
JOE MADDON We're excited about qualifying for the tournament. It's our first goal. We want to continue to focus...
JEANNE ARBUCKLE My decision on how we go into the Honduras game is going to be based on the yellow card situation an...
GLENN MYERNICK My decision on how we go into the Honduras game is going to be based on the yellow card situation an...
GLENN MYERNICK We have some young kids and athletes new to cross country. Our expectations this year? We really don...
DEBBIE REVOLTA We're concentrating on continuing to better ourselves. You want to win over another team, but there'...
BETH MURRIN We have a contract with Brian Smith, Newcastle has a contract with Michael Hagan, we want Brian here...
DENIS FITZGERALD We do not think the Boeing IAM workers will strike when their contract expires on Sept. 2.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL We want to maintain a customer-oriented focus to our programs. It reminds staff that we're in a serv...
CYNTHIA HINCKLEY We're still going to work on cutting his stride down. We want to focus him on using his upper body.
ALAN BYRD We want to develop a focus, something we can articulate to the people we want to recruit.
DAVE HANSON We're not looking at what we've lost. We're looking at our strong points. That's what we've been try...
GRANT PRESTON Whatever they want to negotiate, we will discuss it. That is what negotiations are for.
WAYNE FRENCH We want him to be focused. We want him to focus on leading this team and helping his teammates in th...
DOUG SNYDER We haven't even talked about winning the league. We just want to play to our potential.
JODY GRAVELIN We want SAA, but we need to make sure our workers are protected and the strike is legal.
RANDALL HOWARD We want to start negotiations, and we are working for this but within the framework of the realities...
ABDULLAH GUL It was an exasperating week, but I want to focus on how great it is for our players and for our team...
DAN CASTILLO We don't want to push our ideas on to customers, we simply want to make what they want.
LAURA ASHLEY Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day.
CRAIG GROESCHEL We paid for them, we're entitled to them. Stamp them with the word 'forgery' if you have to, but we ...
MIKE STERN If this was regular negotiations, the committee would have turned this down. We would have said 'No,...
BOBBY PACE If this was regular negotiations, the committee would have turned this down. We would have said 'No,...
BOBBY DE PACE And why love things you were destined to lose? Why let yourself feel things if the feelings were doo...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG As a unit, we want to be No. 1 in the league, we want a shutdown secondary (and) we want to be notic...
DELTHA O'NEAL Our contract contains a no-strike provision. If the contract is gone, the no-strike provision is gon...
KEITH BAILEY We want students to know we're ready for them as soon as possible, so they can make plans and prepar...
DARREN BUSH The hotel industry is committed to fair contract negotiations for our workers in each city. We want ...
JOE MCINERNEY This game will serve as a 'dress rehearsal' for everyone -- the stadium operations staff, concession...
MARK LAMPING We want our students to be able to focus on their futures when they graduate without being saddled w...
BOB WILLIS We've really begun to focus on the defense. We want to make plays on defense; we have the kids who c...
GORDON ELLIOTT Our sponsors want to distance themselves from us and we have to respect that. But it has now cost us...
LEO THEYSKENS We received permission from the federal government to load April benefits early on March 27 since Ap...
JON ALLEN We like to focus on our own team more than the other team. We think if we prepare right and we execu...
ED WIDDIFIELD We talk about winning as a team and on any given night we think we have the talent to get all our gu...
ED COMEAU Our concentration was on playing defense. We didn't want them passing inside to the big girls.
CLAY COCKETT We don't want to put them on a boat and shove them offshore.
ROBERT TURNER We've been preparing for Game 1, not the series or the season, but Game 1 for a long time. And when ...
ALEX SWARTZ We waited for the legislation to be approved as per the contract negotiations with the Uniformed Fir...
FRANK GRIBBON I went to film school, so I certainly know how to make things quickly and cheaply. But at the same t...
LAUREN MILLER We want them to make collective decisions. Otherwise, how can we hold negotiations at all? ... Witho...
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KAREN BLACK I dislike when people try to pigeonhole me, when all I want is to do good work.
KAREN BLACK I am the least intimidating person. I think I would have done better in my career if I were a little...
KAREN BLACK I love what I do, so it's not tiring. If I worked at a computer or drove a truck, I'd be dea...
KAREN BLACK I love playing strong women, even if they're nuts.
KAREN BLACK If you can write it, I can be it.
KAREN BLACK When I wrote my stories in elementary school, I signed them all 'Karen E. Bender' with the s...
KAREN BENDER You sit at your computer for hours, then slave away at your job that you may or may not like. You do...
KAREN BENDER At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in peop...
KAREN BENDER Writing about a person whose struggle you wish you could solve is an act of compassion and also, fra...
KAREN BENDER My second novel began after my family moved from New York City to North Carolina, and I watched my s...
KAREN BENDER When I was 19 and dropped out of college for several months, I lived for some time with my grandmoth...
KAREN BENDER Write something beautiful and honest and that makes you very proud.
KAREN BENDER What is it to be normal, at 12, at 78? What is it like when you can't grow up?
KAREN BENDER My first published work was when I was 19, in 'Playgirl.' It was an odd experience but excit...
KAREN BENDER It's great being married to a writer. You live with someone who can read your work and help you.
KAREN BENDER I wrote lots of pages. I showed what I wrote to Iowa friends, and they said, 'Good start.' T...
KAREN BENDER I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
KAREN BENDER Write a story a great writer would write. Because part of becoming an artist is pushing through all ...
KAREN BENDER Giving shape to a painful experience is powerful because it helps us to see, first, how we got throu...
KAREN BENDER Tell your mother that any clothes she wants to purchase you as a gift has to be suitable for a job i...
KAREN BENDER Don't go into any store that features shopping bags that can stand on their own accord in the mi...
KAREN BENDER