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I sum up the prospects for 1967 in three short sentences. We are back on course. The ship is picking up speed. The economy is moving. Every seaman knows the command at such a moment: 'steady as she goes'.
James Callaghan
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A long sea implies an uniform and steady motion of long and extensive waves; on the contrary, a short sea is when they run irregularly, broken, and interrupted; so as frequently to burst over a vessel's side or quarter.
William Falconer
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Cricket, like all sport, offers glory to few and a lifetime of it to even fewer. For the investment it demands, it offers short careers that end when people in other professions are starting to flourish.
Harsha Bhogle
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Stories of all lengths and depths come from different parts of the cave. For a novel, you must lay in mental, physical and spiritual provision as for a siege or for a time of hectic explosions, while a short story is, or can be, a steady, timed flame like the lighting of a blow lamp on a building site full of dry tinder.
Jane Gardam
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Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.


Rita Mae Brown
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Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.


Christian Nestell Bovee
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The idea of having a steady job is appealing.


Robin Williams
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Movies like 'The Abyss' and 'Jaws' make people think the ocean is threatening. It's not. It's very tranquil.
Graham Hawkes
Giraffes are completely tranquil - they have no predators as adults because there's not an animal in the jungle stupid enough to go for them.
Joanna Lumley
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A lot of people like to run in plays because it's a nice, steady job.


Jackie Cooper
Lots of kids, including my son, have trouble making the leap from reading words or a few sentences in picture books to chapter books. Chapters are often long... 10 pages can seem like a lifetime to a young reader. Then reading becomes laborious and serious. That's why some of the chapters in my books are very short.
Rhea Perlman
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Confidence comes from hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.


Roger Staubach
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I admire Meryl Streep and Dustin Hoffman for their sheer dedication to their craft.


Lavrenti Lopes
All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.
Robert Kennedy
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In both the world of fashion and politics, what's required to succeed is passion, dedication, and vision.
R. J. Cutler
Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.
Vince Lombardi
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An actor is working steady if he's active four to six months a year.


Zach Galligan
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Cal Ripken is steady, he focuses on his job, and he's a good guy.


Bradley Whitford
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All my humor is based on destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing in the bread line - right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.
Lenny Bruce
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Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail.


Clive James