Bresha Webb Quotes
My whole thing as a performer is to affect people, whether I make you cry or I make you laugh. I would love to make you think.
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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Coaching is the great passion of my life, and the job to me has always been an opportunity to work with our student athletes and help them discover what they want.
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 years old. I didn't even see his stand-up, really, until I started doing stand-up, and that was when I was 22. So he's pretty strict. We had curfews until I was 17... he didn't play around.
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People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.
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This little hobbit saves the world. The wizard kills the dragon and saves the town. So many people connect to that character; it doesn't matter if it's an elf or a hobbit or a dwarf. It doesn't matter. They're human in their heart and soul.
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Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.
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Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.
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In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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I went down to Venezuela and ended up renting a helicopter and flew with my sons to the tops of the tepuis, these freestanding jungle mesas, 'lost worlds' as it were. In fact, it's almost impossible to access them without one. So we were able to land and spend some time there. We were trapped for about six hours by clouds that came in.
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With experience, you improve. I'm a better player now, more complete than I was when I was player of the year.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy.
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I think everybody knows my sound because I'm me, you know? But, on your fourth album, I think you've definitely gotta show growth because I definitely don't plan on being one of those cats that fade off. It's always about growing with me; I grew up over the years.
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You have to take control of your own life, your own destiny, and your own careers. You can't leave everything up to someone else, 'cause then you can look at them and blame them.
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I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.
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Equality for women is progress for all.
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I say, if you want to enjoy exquisitely, become a Latter-day Saint, and then live the doctrine of Jesus Christ.
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When ordinary people decide to do extraordinary things they transform their lives and the lives of others around them.
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Propaganda is persuading people to make up their minds while withholding some of the facts from them.
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I had this little Bon Iver phase a few years back; 'Flume' was one of my favourite songs.
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A writer can spend a decade working obsessively on a novel, but in the commerce of publishing, many of the most important decisions about any book will be made based on very short pitches - from literary agent to editor to sales rep to bookstore buyer to a potential reader standing in the bookstore, asking, 'What's it about?'
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My whole thing as a performer is to affect people, whether I make you cry or I make you laugh. I would love to make you think.
