Beth Simone Noveck Quotes

Democratic elections alone do not remedy the crisis of confidence in government. Moreover, there is no viable justification for a democratic system in which public participation is limited to voting.

Beth Simone Noveck

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• Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.

  

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• I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.

  

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• The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

  

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• When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.

  

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• When the audience enjoys your performance, you feel like a magician who is doing magic. It's a great feeling!

  

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• It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.

  

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• When I first started making music, I was all about wordplay and how fast I could rap, but over the years, I've really gained an appreciation for melody. What's cool is that when you're singing, you have to be concise, and when you're rapping, you have the opportunity to be really detailed with your lyrics.

  

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• The magic of landing my first role on Broadway went 'poof' in a matter of a few weeks.

  

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• Remember Tupperware? That was the toughest stuff ever. Why can't they make a phone out of Tupperware?

  

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• I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.

  

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• If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.

  

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• Sometimes pressure can be good, and it gives you a lot of energy to do something.

  

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• Watching yourself on screen is always a little weird, but I didn't cringe when I saw myself on 'The Hour.' It actually exceeded my expectations; every shot looks like a vintage postcard and even my most brutally honest friends have said they think it's good.

  

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• Arise Evans had a fungous nose, and said, it was revealed to him, that the King's hand would cure him, and at the first coming of King Charles II into St. James's Park, he kissed the King's hand, and rubbed his nose with it; which disturbed the King, but cured him.

  

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• Rey's parents left her at 5, and we meet her when she's late teens or early 20s, and for someone to keep hopeful that there's a better life to come, I think, is astounding. Though she starts off alone, she very much finds her place in a group of people, and that's lovely.

  

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• If vampires were a separate species, and they were into genetic engineering, what would they engineer for?

  

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• Democratic elections alone do not remedy the crisis of confidence in government. Moreover, there is no viable justification for a democratic system in which public participation is limited to voting.

  

  Beth Simone Noveck
  • Alone
  • Confidence