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The stakes are high in politics. Michael Portillo

Politics High Stakes

High stakes, low stakes, poor or rich - people will find a way to gamble. Molly Bloom

People Will Rich Way High Find Low Stakes Poor Gamble

When you come to documentaries, the stakes are too low for it to be cutthroat. You're all doing it for the right reasons. Morgan Neville

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If you individualize an audience, it helps up the stakes of your responsibility to that audience. Norbert Leo Butz

You Responsibility Individualize Audience Up Stakes Your Helps

Most of us are going through life without interrogating whether our decision-making processes are fit for purpose. And that's something we need to change - especially when the stakes are high and the decisions are of real import. Noreena Hertz

Winners of wars get a standing start in the post-war stakes of remembrance. Norman Davies

Post-War Winners Remembrance Get Stakes Standing Wars Start

Prayer in a combat zone serves exactly the same purpose as it does in peacetime. In war, the stakes are life and death, true; but if you believe in God and in the notion of a human soul, then we are always making decisions of tremendous significance. Phil Klay

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Television is a good training ground for aspiring stars. You can experiment and get away, imbibing the positive and viable aspects. Whereas, in cinema, the stakes are high. If something goes wrong, the film falls flat. R. Madhavan

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I think that when the social stakes for people are higher, how you present yourself may sometimes feel like it's going to inform your destiny. Because if other people regard you in a certain way, they'll want to help you, and you will end up having a career. Rachel Kushner

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The death of chief justice Rehnquist and the president's nomination of John Roberts raises the stakes for the court and the American people exponentially. Ralph G. Neas

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It's my belief that by demonizing Saddam, by raising the stakes in this war to the point where we're talking about a great moral crusade, that Bush in fact planted the seeds of discontent in the country, because this was fundamentally a limited war with limited objectives and with limited gains. Rick Atkinson

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The independents who were our fiercest competitors all succumbed to the one-hit-makes-you-a-genius philosophy. It is a mistake to think you have the magic touch. Show business is roulette. If you start to play for stakes you can't afford, there's no way you can survive. Samuel Goldwyn

I worry that every time I lay down my credit card of choice, it says something about me. About my social standing or how I see myself. The very colour of your card is an indication of where you stand in the wealth stakes. Sandi Toksvig

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Dying venture firms are like the walking dead. They can have years of staggering around with stakes in still active portfolio companies, hoping they're still holding a lottery ticket that could put them back in the game. If not, they just slowly wind down. Sarah Lacy

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I've pretty much given up on the orange. I really have. I just don't even bother. It's just either sour, or woody, or the skin's too thick. It's very nice when you come across the perfect orange, because it's really a beautiful experience. But the stakes are too high. Scott Thompson

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I like to approach comedy from character, to have the stakes for the individuals in the story be very high. Seth Gordon

Character Comedy Approach High Individuals Like Very Story Stakes

I love action movies, and I love comedy, and I love writing comedy, but the genre of action-comedy - or, at least, as it currently usually is - is just not something that I feel that compelled by, generally, because I find the action to be silly, or it's too slapstick, or the stakes feel low because people are joking in the middle of it. Susanna Fogel

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The challenge is high. The stakes are important. I think it's manageable. William Hedgcock Webster

Challenge Important Think High Manageable Stakes

Good stories are driven by conflict, tension, and high stakes. William Landay

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'Baywatch' was terrifying. I could feel the financial stakes, you know? Yahya Abdul-Mateen II

You Financial Baywatch Could Feel Know Terrifying Stakes

The stuff that I find really intriguing is always how do ordinary people behave in extraordinary circumstances. And that's why we have a lot of cop shows and lawyer shows and medical shows is that you're looking for situations that just always heighten the stakes. Zeljko Ivanek

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