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Then they started pulling me in and I was very resistant. All the other actors would be saying write more, more dialogue for me, and I`d always be saying `No, less, less`.

- Peter Berg

Artists are traditionally resistant to labels.

- Patti Smith

If I have any message for others, it is to go for help early and not to be a resistant patient.

- Patty Duke

People think that the industry is dying, but in reality it is as strong as ever; it has just shifted in a new direction. Most people think of textiles as clothes, and that is all they know, but it is everything from artificial arteries to chemically resistant suits for fire fighters.

- John Hardy

Salem is lucky because we don`t have any significant high rises. Low-rise buildings seem to fair better. We seem to have lots of single- and two-story buildings, which all fare well. Most of the structures in the city are framed with wood, which seem resistant in the event of an earthquake. Older, steel buildings tend to fall apart quicker. Wood is flexible. Salem would probably fare very well, other than the downtown area.

- Tom Phillips

The soy-bean, in particular, has proved sufficiently resistant to cold in spring and to adverse weather during summer to warrant heavy planting, especially throughout the South.

- Alan Rupe

When you do classical breeding, you cluster for hundreds of genes in a plant that allow it to be resistant to a particular insect.

- Ali Rahnema

I want a new invincible human being, insensitive to pain, resistant and indifferent about the quality of food they eat.

- Andy Larned

Rebuilding stronger and safer and more flood-resistant is a wise investment of tax dollars. There recently has been an independent study by the Mitigation Hazard Council that has indicated that each dollar spent on disaster mitigation saves society on the average of $4.

- Anthony Richards

I think Haley`s time is pretty short, ... She fought very hard, but the leukemia just proved too resistant and too potent, and that`s been the story since the beginning of the year.

- Athena Hrevatis

And what this paper in the Lancet really attests to is the need for us to have really good surveillance for the emergence of drug resistant influenza, and the emergence of novel strains or new strains of influenza, so that we can move quickly to prevent the spread of these influenza viruses when they occur,

- Barbary Chaapel

(William Nelson says that) one of the more difficult challenges for makers of blister packaging continues to be the development of foil blister materials that are both functionally child resistant and senior friendly. ... This has been a formidable challenge over the years. There is new innovative technology appearing on the horizon to successfully bridge this technical gap. Alcoa is working to reengineer the kind of package that will pass the child-resistant protocol test. It will be a combination of new packaging materials and blister design.

- Barry C. Forbes