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I came from the educated middle class but I identified with the working classes. Those were the people I looked up to. The lads whose fathers worked on the docks or in shipping yards or were shopkeepers. I knew that I wasn`t part of that world, but I was intrigued by it. They had a different way of communicating. People who delight in conversation are often using that as a means to not say what is on their minds. When I became interested in theater, the work I admired was being done by working-class writers. It was often about the inarticulate. I later saw that same thing in Robert De Niro`s early work - it was the most sublime struggle of a man trying to express himself. There was such poetry in that for me.

- Daniel Day-Lewis

(on researching his role as Plainview in There Will Be Blood (2007)) I read a lot of correspondence dating from that period. Decent middle-class lives with wives and children were abandoned to pursue this elusive possibility. They were bank clerks and shipping agents and teachers. They all fled West for a sniff of cheap money. And they made it up as they went along. No one knew how to drill for oil. Initially, they scooped it out of the ground in saucepans. It was man at his most animalistic, sifting through filth to find bright, sparkly things.

- Daniel Day-Lewis

It was important on The Shipping News to have my house far enough away from each location so I had this time in the morning to think about my shots and still remain open to surprises once I got to the set.

- Lasse Hallström

Buy.com provides us the customer information, (which) we then provide back to them in the form of a shipping label,

- Steve Holmes

To meet the shortage of supplies from America, due to lack of shipping, the representatives of the different supply departments were constantly in search of available material and supplies in Europe.

- Kelly Miller

First silicon of our analog UWB chip stands as the culmination of a tremendous engineering effort. Receiving this chip on time for validation testing is a major step toward UWB commercialization. We look forward to receiving our digital chip and shipping evaluation kits to our customers.

- Tom Hamilton

First silicon of our analog UWB chip stands as the culmination of a tremendous engineering effort, ... Receiving this chip on time for validation testing is a major step toward UWB commercialization. We look forward to receiving our digital chip and shipping evaluation kits to our customers.

- Tom Hamilton

They`ll change where they`re shipping rubber and if I`m not mistaken, they used to ship rubber into this port, and they`ll just change wherever it goes and truck it out.

- David Newman

We`re very pleased to see both the shipping lines and the union recognize Alaska`s unique dependence on shipping, ... Everything from the Sunday funnies to election pamphlets were affected by this lockout. There is no rail line and only one highway, and it would cost about twice as much and take considerably longer.

- Bob King
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had become quite difficult to predict this year`s holiday buying and shipping season and the prospects for any rapid economic turnaround.

- Scott Davis

The Internet is gradually becoming more of a standard way to shop. It`s convenient to use, especially as people are more confident now of using their credit cards online. Web vendors are giving customers what they want like free shipping or the option to order online and pick up the goods at the store.

- David Berkowitz

Barge shipping costs have exploded. Right now, barge freight has traded at a record high, from the Ohio (River) to New Orleans.

- David Marshall

The great necessity for destroying Japan`s vital lifeline of shipping gave us no choice but to sink all Japanese ships encountered.

- Alfred L. Kroeber

To my knowledge, the Department of Homeland Security has focused on detection devices that are large, expensive, use a large amount of energy, and cannot easily be placed in or on a shipping container.

- Alice Golembo

On a practical level, the design creates a new direct link to Governors Island for both tourists and Island workers from both Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn. The system is very light, using only three supports, none of which stands in the water, so the shipping channels are left completely open.

- Andy Ringstaff

We are shipping the fastest available microprocessor available in the Intel Core Duo family that they can produce.

- Angela Hernandez

Lee`s not a factor for anything but shipping interests,

- Angela Tammaro

(The licensing board decisions are) not happy news, ... but it`s also not an immediate and final statement that says, `This stuff is going to start shipping the day after tomorrow.`

- Anne Messitte

I am aware of no PC manufacturer that is presently shipping a second, compatible JVM on their Windows systems,

- Arlene Hernandez

(Union workers) wouldn`t be paid by P&O directly or even by the Arab shipping company, but by the local port association`s management.

- Arrika Bales

Baton Rouge, New Orleans and southern Louisiana are the largest shipping complex in the world, and the U.S. is extremely reliant on shipping in the Mississippi River corridor and Gulfport, Miss.

- Arthur Craigmill

It would certainly give a short-term boost to the shipping industry, ... There is a certain inflow of equipment, so they would need shipping tonnage, a lot like the Persian Gulf war situation. Sea-Land would be in the pole-position.

- Ashu Kakkar

Clearly China is going to be a primary cargo generator for shipping -- it`s in the cards. That means competitive access in China`s ports is a very serious issue for lines carrying cargo in and out of the country.

- Ashu Kakkar

Fewer cars are available, and the costs of shipping grain are up significantly in many areas. Just a few short years after BNSF strongly encouraged shippers to build facilities capable of loading 52-car trains, the railroad is now penalizing those same shippers.

- Baldomero Vázquez