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I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It's not. Mine had me trained in two days.

My feminist training was that this was your goal, to be a self-sufficient woman, but that is a miscalculation. It's just not the way we work. We work in dialogue with the community.

My training is documented on film.

The strange proposition that black intellectuals - regardless of their training - are 'race experts' mainly because they are black is naive and potentially dangerous.

I'm a very goal-oriented person, so I look at the specific demands of a certain race and tailor my training towards that.

Training is not quite a thing for me yet. It is definitely on my list of things to do.

With my classical training and coming from a metal band, producers didn't know what to expect. I like to shock people, though.

From my early training days, I am an avid listener of heavy music which is laced with proper diction and effective use of grammar of music.

You know, differentiating between training and matches. If they are all matches it becomes very natural to shoot them, although Dan thinks I should shoot more of them. I think I shoot plenty of them.

Stunt coordinating is a good training ground for directing because you have exposure to all the departments in film.

I have trained, but not really that much professionally. But 'ABCD2' has been the biggest training ground. I've been exposed to and learnt so many dance forms through this film.

My knowledge of trains - and love before first sight, love at negative-one sight - comes from Alfred Hitchcock.

I never made a distinction, really, between music and sound. Let me explain what I mean by that. I grew up near to a train station, and the sound of the trains became a very important part of my world. It was a very musical sound to me.

You feel a little weird, as a writer of scripted television for many years, to say you're a fan of reality TV. You feel like a traitor. But I am a total fan.

If I am actually a traitor or anti-national, come and form a national commission. I will be there, and those who call me a traitor should also be there, so that the 220 million people of Pakistan can see who is the actual culprit.

You had to be into sport and, sad to say, I'm a traitor to my country because I don't have a sporting bone in my body.

I admire traits in people. I 'respect' certain things about them but I think that word gets thrown around too much.

My not-so-fun traits are that I get very impatient and I can be really stubborn.

I suppose I have very undesirable traits. I am very critical, which is very undesirable. But it is good from a business point of view.

My father was tough. At least, he thought so, and I guess I have a lot of his traits.

'Breaking Bad' and 'The Shield' were planned right from the start so that their narrative trajectory would come down in a blaze of fireworks.

My six handbooks to Jewish life and lifecycle events mostly followed the trajectory of my adult Jewish life.

There's no trajectory to follow. Even if you were to say, 'OK, I'm going to model my ascent based on this other person's,' luck and timing play such a big part that it's really futile.

I think, in terms of looking at the trajectory and being around some of the same people, it's certainly flattering words, but I definitely have not done enough to be mentioned in the same sentence as Coach Payton.