"I wouldn't say the decision was easy but it didn't take me long to decide, " he said.

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It didn't take me long to make my decision.

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So how long did it take me to find the information to write this piece?

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It would take a long time for me to get enough experience to make even three hundred a week.

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"I am very familiar with the league Chris played in and because of that, it did not take long for people from there to tell me that we needed to recruit this young man, " Flood said.

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As one banker put it me, things usually take as long to unwind as they did to build up.

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They wanted me to take it easy for a long time.

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My most successful clients at Stratus Prep are those who start early and take advantage of this time to work closely with their counselor and me long before the MBA deadlines are looming in the fall.

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One of my long-time readers, Jessica Hartung, wrote back encouraging me to take the point even farther.

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But it might be worthwhile to take a weekend writing workshop or a week-long summer workshop and get a teacher and just say show me with 10 pages, show me what to do with the first 10 pages.

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