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I am so not technically proficient at all.
Monica Potter / Film Actress
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Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
H. L. Mencken / Journalist
Good Husband
Husband
Husbands
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I'm not technically proficient enough to attempt all kinds of music.
Noel Gallagher / Musician
All Kinds
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When I became proficient as a salesman I was invited to teach new hires.
Zig Ziglar / Author
Invited
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I want to be able to do more of my own stunts and really be proficient with my weapons.
Juliana Harkavy /
Weapons
More My Own Own
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I think the hard thing about all these tools is that it takes a fair amount of effort to become proficient.
Bill Joy / Computer Scientist
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Tools
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Actors become very professional and proficient about watching out for each other's light and not stepping on each other's lines.
Ryan Gosling / Actor
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Stepping
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Flying, I continue to be involved with. I love flying, and I hope to keep doing it so long as I can pass my medicals and stay proficient.
Ratan Tata / Businessman
Flying
Pass
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If we wish our state's growth to continue, then our future will increasingly be with industries that require a highly skilled and technically proficient workforce.
Jay Weatherill / Premier Of South Australia
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The program should know if someone is at the keyboard or joystick or if it is just sitting there idle. It should know if someone is proficient in its use or a novice.
Bill Budge / Game Programmer
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I was never attracted to being a very proficient singer or player. I suppose I was interested in creating a vision; in the same way I was very drawn to tension within cinema.
Siouxsie Sioux / Singer-Songwriter
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Tension
Vision
Drawn
Suppose
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We started with the basics of kicking and punching, then we moved on once we got proficient in that, we moved on to working with the weapons, and from then on working with the wires.
Chiaki Kuriyama / Actress
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Moved
Punching
Weapons
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At first, I simply wanted to get a basic understanding of sign language, but as time went on, I really got the bug and wanted to become proficient so that I could make good use of my skills.
Rachel Shenton /
Basic Understanding
Bug
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The Philippines ranks among top off-shoring hubs in the world because of cost competitiveness and, more importantly, our highly trainable, English proficient, IT-enabled management and manpower.
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo / Former President Of The Philippines
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Cost
Management
Manpower
Philippines
Among
English
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If we do not get No Child Left Behind right for Limited English Proficient students, the law will be a failure for most schools in the 15th Congressional District, and for many across the nation.
Ruben Hinojosa / U.s. Representative
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District
Congressional
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It's just about asking why. We as cooks historically have been very, very technically proficient but not technically informed as to why we do what we do. Modernist cuisine is about that knowledge.
Wylie Dufresne / Chef
Cooks
Cuisine
Technically
Modernist
Historically
Informed
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I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano, but I did become fairly proficient as a pianist and my teachers felt I had talent and wanted me to become a good concert pianist and earn my living that way.
Alan Hovhaness / Composer
Teacher
Orchestra
Pianist
Piano
Fairly
Teachers
Good Me Talent
Concert
Concert Pianist
Earn
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One of the skills I had to learn and become proficient in is kissing a man. I had never kissed a man. Will Smith did it in his movies, so did Jake Gyllenhaal, and I figured it was my time. So it was me and Steve Carell - fantastic.
Dwayne Johnson / Actor
Men
Kissing
My Time
Skills
Time Movies Man
Figured
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Smith
Steve
Will Smith
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Take up martial arts and get proficient. Take a sword-fighting class. Dive in and immerse yourself in it as you would any other acting class, so when the opportunity comes, that skill can be really utilized, and it's not half-baked.
David Leitch /
Martial Arts
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I get bored at the theatre a lot because I notice that there's not always a connection between the actors. They may be technically proficient, but they're not surprising each other. I'm thrilled by actors who make choices that are surprising.
Lusia Strus / Writer
Bored
Choices
Surprising
Theatre
Connection
Technically
Notice
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It is a dire need for our young scientists to be proficient in running and using their lab equipment rather than depending on their assistants or workers. Once they learn how to use every lab equipment, their scientific career is likely to progress smoothly.
Abdul Qadeer Khan / Scientist
Running
Assistants
Equipment
Workers
Depending
Dire
Lab
Likely
Proficient
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Smoothly
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A Christian school should be a place where young men and young women go through a period of spiritual formation and development so that they come out incredibly more proficient at living out their calling than they would have been had they not gone to school.
Tony Campolo / Pastor
Calling
Christian
Formation
School
Spiritual
Young Women
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Young Men
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Certainly being proficient in an instrument does have its problems. Because the better you get, the more you just start sounding like an ordinary guitarist. There are certainly guitarists that transcend that and do really find their sound and all that sort of stuff.
Nick Cave / Musician
Doe
Guitarist
Ordinary
Sound
Certainly
Instrument
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I didn't go into journalism thinking it would solidify my identity. I did it because I needed to make a living, and I was proficient in writing. But in becoming a journalist, I learned about other people who felt like they were on the edges of American mainstream life.
Alex Tizon /
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Today, most young women are exposed to technology at a very young age, with mobile phones, tablets, the Web or social media. They are much more proficient with technology than prior generations since they use it for all their school work, communication and entertainment.
Susan Wojcicki / Businesswoman
Communication
Technology
Entertainment
Exposed
Generations
Media
Mobile
Mobile Phones
Phones
School
Social Media
Tablets
Young Age
Work Women Age
Women Are
Prior
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I know people who prepare their roles in such a way that they technically look ahead and memorize their gestures, and then they stick to it. Those that are technically proficient enough can make it seem natural, but they do that and don't really take in what other people are doing.
Viggo Mortensen / Actor
Gestures
Looks
People
Roles
Look People Way
Ahead
Enough Look People
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Memorize
Prepare
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When I came back to Mumbai after boarding school, I was 16 and I picked up weight training and yoga. This is when I also started dance classes and Pilates and then I started doing different workouts every month. I am now proficient in kick boxing, gymnastics, classical dance as well as yoga.
Amyra Dastur /
Boxing
Gymnastics
Mumbai
Pilates
Boarding
Boarding School
Classes
Dance Classes
Picked
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I've always felt a great affinity with music. I've felt myself to be more of a musician than anything else, though I'm not proficient in any one instrument. But I think I have a musical sense of things... and writing seems to me to be a musical experience - rhythmically and in many other ways.
Sam Shepard / Playwright
Affinity
Musical
Musical Experience
Anything Else
Experience Music Great
Instrument
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Rhythmically
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Through Duke Energy's strong balance sheet and electric generation expertise, and Piedmont's understanding of natural gas markets and proficient operations, the combined company will be well-positioned for a future that may require additional natural gas infrastructure and services to meet the needs of our customers.
Lynn Good /
Customers
Electric
Expertise
Gas
Infrastructure
Natural Gas
Operations
Additional
Combined
Duke
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I play a little acoustic bass and a little guitar. In our house there are instruments everywhere, and I love picking them up and just noodling around. I pick up my husband's tin whistle sometimes. He's really proficient, but it's about the second most annoying instrument - after the banjo - if you don't know how to play it.
Martie Maguire / Musician
Annoying
Bass
Tin
Acoustic
Banjo
Whistle
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We need visions of a future in which we have applied our infinite creativity to the task of living on a finite world, where we have embraced our role, become comfortable and proficient as planet-shapers, and learned to use our technological skills to enhance the survival prospects not just of humanity but of all life on Earth.
David Grinspoon /
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