"One thing that unfortunately I do miss out on is that sort of quiet time where I can think about something I want to write ... where, if I'm bored, I'm flipping open Word and punching something out, " he said.

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But I do still miss the rush from being able to understand and live through the eyes of another person.

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Do I miss you?

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The flip side of this is that if a stock is about to embark on a much larger move, I do not want to miss the trader negotiating for a few nickels or dimes.

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Having retired at the end of last season, I didn't think I would miss the game as much as I do.

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"This is an incredible opportunity for my city that I feel like I'm going to miss out if I don't do something, and yet what I do is not going to hit the mark, " he said.

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"After two years or so away from the game, virtually all of them think 'I quite like tennis' and do miss it, " believes Law.

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"I'll do what I used to do before I worked on the show, " he says of an event he couldn't miss.

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While I have nothing against this concept (I call it doing your job), I do have a problem with the reality that many practitioners of managing-up miss the point altogether.

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No, we both love what we do, and that's the element, I think, that you would miss if you don't have an actual body behind it.

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"Miss Pamela is my hero, because she's helping me do things that I never thought I can do, " he said.

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