Of course, you have to be flexible to work it out, but the big idea has to be so strong, it has to go through fire and still emerge exactly how you wanted it to be.
There are all kinds of limitations, and often the piece is not nearly as good as you wanted it to be.
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Getting a J degree and learning the ropes was what you did if you wanted to be a newspaperman (it was okay to call yourself that back then).
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It was the mobile operating system, iOS, and the tightly controlled App Store released a year later in 2008 that made the iPhone into, well, whatever you wanted it to be.
Because one of the reasons, I think, this whole question of, do you make your costume or do you buy the costume, starts to be, kind of, a sore point with mom's who - maybe you grew up having mom start sewing your costume weeks in advance, whenever you figured out what it is that you wanted to be.
"It used to be at an airport you could get anything you wanted--as long as it's a hot dog or a piece of cold pizza, " jokes Greg Principato, president of the North American Region of the Airports Council International.
It used to be that if you wanted to reach an audience of millions or tens of millions, you had to be a large corporation.
It used to be that if you wanted to get access to cutting-edge ideas in technology, you needed an invitation to an exclusive conference like TED, or to attend a university like MIT.
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"It used to be that if you wanted to set up an office in China, you had to go to Hong Kong, hire a lawyer, hire a banker and take them with you to China, " says Coppedge.
"It would be like someone asking you if you wanted to switch off your sight for 20 minutes, " he says.
If you wanted to make Europan banking even more precarious than it already is this would be a good thing to do: otherwise, not so much.
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Still, despite not knowing much, we wanted to give you a look at this device anyway because we thought it would be a good opportunity to give you some early impressions of the performance.
And so I wanted to write a book that, you know, it's going to be--all the terrible things about slavery are gonna be there but in the end you know that your main character is not only gonna survive but is going to thrive.
This is exactly the kind of thing I've always wanted to accomplish, showing women that it's OK to be confident even if you're not the popular notion of "perfect".
But it's not something we wanted to do, to be honest with you.
Ah, those were the days: when it was such a big deal to get an e-mail message that you wanted to be alerted by a special announcement.
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Mr. HOWARD RUDOLPH (Mental Health Counselor): Almost everybody I spoke with had some form of something that would be on the charts or on the scale for some form of diagnosis, if you wanted to give it one.
On that basis, if you wanted to and still want to participate in the recovery of auto sales and forget about picking whether it will be Ford, General Motors, BMW or Mercedes-Benz that will have the best cars on offer this year.
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The message was, said Mr Jones, aimed at a Tory Government in Westminster who would "be able to abolish the assembly at a whim" if it wanted to - not, you might argue, that likely.
No 10 stressed, an hour before Mr Cameron's speech, that no decision had been taken but the PM wanted to look at whether "it makes sense if you set all benefits at the national level or whether there should be some local or regional element".
The news, and so I grew up - there was a point in my life, like in middle school, where I just wanted to fit in and I just didn't want to be an Arab because I thought, you know, it was a terrible thing.
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