"It's one thing to have talent. It's another to figure out how to use it."
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"A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation."
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"You've got to experiment to figure out what works."
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"Sometimes it takes failure to figure out who you aren't."
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"I assure you that there's a lot involved in compositions with figures. ... It's like weaving... you must control and keep an eye on several things at once."
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"So many figures are quoted to prove so many things. Sometimes it depends on what paper you read or what broadcast you listen in on."
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"Clover was a stout motherly mare approaching middle life, who had never quite got her figure back after her fourth foal."
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"And clenching your fist for the ones like us Who are oppressed by the figures of beauty."
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"As long as I'm learning something, I figure I'm OK - it's a decent day."
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"Jargon is making it increasingly hard to understand what a public figure is actually trying to say"
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"I can take $15,000 a year and raise kids on that. Later, they'll figure out I've got millions, but hopefully they'll have the values to say, 'So what?"
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"The spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which can be pointed out by your finger."
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"The Japanese are hard to figure out."
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"We need to figure out how to have the things we love, and not destroy the world."
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"One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few."
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"To forget a friend is sad. Not every one has had a friend. And if I forget him, I may become like the grown−ups who are no longer interested in anything but figures."
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"But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference."
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"Which, the first meeting with anybody is, you know, everybody is on their best behavior. It's only after you get to know them for a while that you figure out."
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"You have to create something in a way that has direction, that it has vision, and then your partner will take it and figure out whatever their expertise is."
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"Oh! I must somehow manage to do a figure in a few strokes."
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