"Preparations are good in life, prologues ruinous."
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"Early spring is the time for vigorous change, a preparation for the heat-driven oppression that is to come."
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"With writing, there are multiple drafts. On stage, there is one take. I do a lot of preparation for shows, so, for the most part, what you hear me say is pretty much what I wanted to get at."
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"The egg of a bird hatches only when the chick within is ready"
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"We plan to lift the veil of secrecy surrounding the preparation of the budget. We also plan to open up the process of government appointments."
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"Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death."
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"Life is but a preparation for what there is to come."
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"I wrote The Grapes of Wrath in one hundred days, but many years of preparation preceded it."
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"Everybody works the same, but the preparation very often may be different. You cannot work differently. You have to say the words that were written on the page, and you have to make your marks. That's the work."
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