Jan Koum Quotes
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I know what to do and I go and execute.
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Reading allows me to recharge my batteries.
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I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.
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Work is the thing that happens around the game time.
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I have always found photography magical, and became more taken with it whilst modeling.
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No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.
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When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!
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I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
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My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very special to me - it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I'm also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions.
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We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor.
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My opinion can be completely different after a show.
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I know I am a writer; it is the only thing I am sure of.
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A lot of artists don't like the sound of their voice. They're put off by it.
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I am deeply concerned with the diminution of the teaching strength of the country as a result of the disproportionately low salaries that are paid to teachers throughout the country.
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I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, maybe I won't have to.
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I am devoted to my husband and son. I am devoted to the practices and rituals that imbue our lives with a sense of meaning and purpose, that help me to live my days in the most emotionally and intellectually productive manner. I am devoted to the idea of devotion itself.
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Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
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Human beings place their desires ahead of the collective good.
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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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That's why investigations are so important, to drill down and to connect those dots and to get the facts. What we have is a lot of smoke that causes us to want to know more about what has happened.
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I wanted to do a naval film and I flirted with different ideas, most of which ended up being too intense. So when the idea of 'Battleship' was first suggested, I was instantly drawn to the challenge - could I invent a movie around the idea of five ships fighting five ships?
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I have twins that I didn't want to have the life that I had. I didn't have a great life growing up.
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I grew up watching 'Disco Dancer'. I watched it some 20 times as a kid.
