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I and am
`` I am.
Now, are you going to take me or am I supposed to walk ''??
I am with you, of course, Tomas ''.
And Hank Maguire added, `` So am I, Tom ''.
You must forgive me if I seem to dwell too much on her physical aspects but I am an artist, accustomed to studying the physical body.
If you tell him I made a pass at you he might think you misunderstood something I said or did, so instead of just telling him I made a pass, say I tried to date you and that you agreed so you could prove to him what a louse I really am.
Ballet dancer: Protests, tears, and `` take what you want, Nicolas, I am a dancer, you are a poet, it is all beautiful ''.
I don't suppose a wife should be grateful to her husband for saving her life, but I am.
`` I am an honest man '', the German said with fervor.
I am naive, they say, to make use of such words.
I am concerned here, however, with the Northern liberal's attitude toward the South.
I should like, by the way, to make it clear that I am not using the word `` Persians '' carelessly.
`` Now that Bruno Walter is virtually in retirement and my dear friend Dimitri Mitropoulos is no longer with us, I am probably the only one -- with the possible exception of Leonard Bernstein -- who has this special affinity for and champions the works of Bruckner and Mahler ''.
I am certainly not adequately trained to describe or enlarge on human fears, but there are certain features of the fears dispelled by scientific explanations that stand out quite clearly.
I am usually filled with an uneasiness that through some unwitting slip all hell may break loose.
I am not a philosopher.
`` What I am saying does not mean that there will henceforth be no form in art.
Both I and my feelings come up out of a chain of events that fan out into the past into sources that are ultimately very unlike the entity which I now am.

I and working
I had always, I said, hankered after working hard with my hands.
`` I have just come from viewing a man who had made the fortune of his country, but now is working all night in order to support his family '', he reflected.
but I liked to think of him at ninety swimming and working at Key West long after Hemingway had moved to Cuba.
I think we have the hardest working, best representative in Congress.
With my gray hair and my weatherbeaten countenance I certainly looked the honest working stiff.
When this occurs, I make the change on the sketch or on the final watercolor -- if I have been working on a full sheet in the field.
`` When working from one of my sketches I square it up and project its linear form freehand to the watercolor sheet with charcoal.
He was criticized for his curtness and abruptness -- and he answered: `` I am not working to become popular ''.
It may well be that, when Rudy Pozzatti and I visited your country last spring, you were living and working close to the places we saw and the streets we walked.
I knew that I'd soon be back working as an orderly at the hospital or as a counterman at Union News or Schraffts while waiting for another acting job to open.
`` I asked her why she couldn't do it tomorrow, but it seems the muse is working good tonight and she's afraid to let it go ''.
Years ago when I asked her to put me in Social Security, so's I wouldn't have to be working now, Miss Julia threatened to fire me -- all because it would mean a few more dollars a year to her ''.
I think you fell short of the real truth in the matter: That the move is working out through the fine cooperation of the staff and all the people.
We have not the leisure, or the patience, or the skill, to comprehend what was working in the mind and heart of a then recent graduate from the Harvard Divinity School who would muster the audacity to contradict his most formidable instructor, the majesterial Andrews Norton, by saying that, while he believed Jesus `` like other religious teachers '', worked miracles, `` I see not how a miracle proves a doctrine ''.
`` I have here that you could run a nursery of your own for working mothers '', Eugenia said.
`` And then whenever I have a minute I can be working at it, and keep an eye on the baby and the stove at the same time.
As of 2012, less than 50 Apple I computers ( with only six in working order ) are believed to exist, making it a very rare collector's item.
< li > On June 15, 2012, a working Apple I was sold at auction by Sotheby's for a record $ 374, 500, more than double the expected price .</ li >
Allori was one of the artists, working under Vasari, included in the decoration of the Studiola of Francesco I.
Paddy Chayefsky's Academy Award-winning Marty was the most notable examination of working class Bronx life was also explored by Chayefsky in his 1956 film The Catered Affair, and in the 1993 Robert De Niro / Chazz Palminteri film, A Bronx Tale, Spike Lee's 1999 movie Summer of Sam, centered in an Italian-American Bronx community, 1994's I Like It Like That that takes place in the predominately Puerto Rican neighborhood of the South Bronx, and Doughboys, the story of two Italian-American brothers in danger of losing their bakery thanks to one brother's gambling debts.

I and for
She said, `` I guess the Lord looks out for fools, drunkards, and innocents ''.
Still, I was disgusted with myself for agreeing with Montero's methods.
I saw the clergyman kneel for a moment by the twitching body of the man he had shot, then run back to his position.
Now under me I could see him for what he really was, a boy dressed up in streaks of paint.
He pointed out the switch to me and for a moment I foolishly believed that he would let deed follow words.
Now, here was something of obvious importance to me, yet when I reached for the tickets he snatched them away from my hand.
Having nothing else to do except wait for my forms to be processed, I gave myself over to speculations concerning the hall itself.
For although I had crossed a corner of the hall on my way to the toilet I still could not tell for sure how far to the rear the darkness extended.
I had for some time been hoping, in vain, for one of the dim figures to pass between the fan vents and myself.
It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.
I was constantly searching for clues around the neighborhood of the hall.
I returned to the hall, despite my dislike for the clerk.
When I went for my interview with the director I saw why.
No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.
Was I sure, he asked, that I knew what I was applying for??
Though I doubted that he would understand me, I told the director my motives for applying.
He said in a studied voice, `` I didn't do it for you.
I did it for the valley.
I was just doing my job, just following orders, and for that he's going to kill me.

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