get busy
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In Mansfield: “The Shawshank Redemption” was filmed at the Ohio State Reformatory, where Tim Robbins’s character tells the inmate played by Morgan Freeman: “Get busy living or get busy dying.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 2026
That said, life can get busy, and sometimes I need to get dinner on the table quickly.
From Salon • Apr. 29, 2025
Roads into the capital are starting to get busy and a main road in Cardiff Bay is to shut so protesters can park ahead of the Senedd demonstration.
From BBC • Feb. 28, 2024
Now, the 25-year-old quarterback can get busy earning all his new money for a franchise attempting to make consecutive postseason appearances for the first time in 14 years.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 26, 2023
The girl was the first to tell the fiddler to get busy and the first to dance.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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