Dorothy Hamill Quotes
I used to have terrible tantrums. I was temperamental when I was younger. Actually, what I needed was a swift kick in the pants. What a brat!
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The Doobie Brothers are one of my favorites of all time.
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Incommensurables cannot be compared.
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When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.
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Where I'm focused now is how I get more women leaders. We decided not to just look outside the company for great women to hire, but to help women rise up through the ranks internally.
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It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.
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The thing about the Nobel ceremony is that for a whole week, you get treated like a superstar. You get driven everywhere. You have minders who always make sure you get where you're going. And you always get into the back seat of the limo.
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The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.
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I'm a guy, but I'm not afraid to cry. Not all of the time. But when I'm watching a movie, I'll sometimes shed a tear, especially 'Moulin Rouge'.
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The joy is in the getting there. The beginning years of starting your business, the camaraderie when you're in the pit together, are the best years of your life. So rather than being so focused on when you get big and powerful, if you can just get the juice out of that... don't miss it.
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I actually started out as a poet in high school. I published in small literary magazines for probably about ten years. I entered the Yale Younger Poet contest every year, until I was too old to be a younger poet, and I never got more than a form rejection letter from them.
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I'd always wanted to do a Marvel project, and I'd always imagined getting to play one of the superheroes because it's such a hard thing to get. It's the parts that only go to a few people. The flip side of that is the antagonists are pretty awesome.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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I don't know if my songs fit in films.
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Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.
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The best thing about the iPhone is this that tells me where I am all the time. There's never a need to feel lost anymore.
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What I love about 'Mockingjay, Part 1' is that President Coin or Cressida could have easily been played by a man, and if you look at 'Interstellar,' the Anne Hathaway or Jessica Chastain roles would have been men years ago.
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You've got to trust people. And because I am a control freak, sometimes that's difficult for me, because I want to micro-manage absolutely everything. I can't hand over. But I'm trying to do that more.
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It's unbelievable, there's a book out attacking Gore, when he's the most unfortunate loser in political history.
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It was also my experience at Hull-House that aroused my interest in industrial diseases.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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When you have a chain around your neck, you have to keep your head down and try to accept your fate without succumbing entirely to humiliation, without forgetting who you are.
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He hated the way they thought. He hated the way they didn't think. It was hard to imagine which of them he hated more.
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Having so many close calls in my career, it was such an awesome feeling to get that first world title.
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I used to have terrible tantrums. I was temperamental when I was younger. Actually, what I needed was a swift kick in the pants. What a brat!
