Keala Settle Quotes
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It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday.
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Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.
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The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world.
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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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I think that, to be an artist, you have to have a big enough ego to believe that people out in the world want to see what you think is a good idea. And if you don't have that sense of ego, then the minute that idea goes into the world, self-doubt kicks in.
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Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
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I wasn't the most prodigiously talented cricketer in Karnataka, let alone India. Some of my team-mates in my school team could hit the ball cleaner than I do. I had to work through that lack of talent, so to speak, that lack of natural flair. Runs never came easy for me.
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You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.
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America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.
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You can make a hit song in 15 minutes. I don't know about someone else's song, but songs that people like of mine, I've created in 15 minutes or less.
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Every night that I put my head on the pillow, I go to sleep knowing that I can do more. I'm working toward perfection. I'm trying to be the best ever.
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Too often, animal-rights supporters seem to care about animals to the exclusion of people.
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Natural beauty takes at least two hours in front of a mirror.
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I was so naive in radio technique that I knew nothing about timing. I would write pages on Honus Wagner and then get only half through by the time the show ended. I eventually learned, but there was nobody there to school me.
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The word 'cancer' carries with it enormous fear, fear for the future, fear for family.
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The notion that I might have been able to court friends, win attention, conjure it, would have spoiled it for me. Unbidden love was what I wanted.
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Poems get to the point where they are stronger than you are. They come up from some other depth and they find a place on the page. You can never find that depth again, that same kind of authority and voice. I might feel I would like to change something about them, but they’re still stronger than I am and I cannot.
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They were like 'AA this' and I was like 'Bye bye that'
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It never ceases to amaze me that I get to do this for a living.
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The Bible tells us that there are some things worth fighting for. In fact, the Bible says there's some things worth dying for.
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Developing new products is labour- intensive. So is producing the capital goods needed to make them. These jobs disappear when innovation stalls.
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For a long time, I didn't think I wanted to live in the Ozarks or write about the region. It seemed to be a sure recipe for obscurity, and to be obscure was not my conscious ambition.
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I am a massive film geek, and I love movies.
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Sometimes I get frustrated with my own self because I'm such a perfectionist.
