Jane McGonigal Quotes
Urgent optimism is the desire to act immediately to tackle an obstacle, combined with the belief that we have a reasonable hope of success.Jane McGonigal
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I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.
Pat Oliphant -
'FlashForward' was on the outs when I was approached with 'Happy Endings.' I literally got the script on a Friday, and on Saturday morning I met with David Caspe, Jamie Tarses, and the Russo brothers. I took the role on that Saturday, and on Monday I was doing a table read. It all happened very fast, but it was super exciting.
Zachary Knighton -
My mom, she is the most unbelievable mom that you could ever have in your entire life and she's always with me on everything. The most I've ever been away from her is two days. I love her more than anybody could ever know.
Dakota Fanning -
When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.
Rachel Bloom -
Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
Nargis Fakhri -
I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
Karl Lagerfeld
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
We Belgians love when we can go to L.A. because the city is amazing and the climate is fantastic.
Raf Simons -
I am followed in department stores. I have walked in dressed professionally or dressed in jeans, and I have walked into stores, and instantly, security is on my back.
Tamron Hall -
You have to open up on stage.
Karen O -
I have personally seen what a devastating medical condition can cost.
Tammy Duckworth -
I was deposed in association with a case involving the Golden Venture, a ship which smuggled Chinese aliens into the United States about eight or nine ago.
Rand Beers
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The writer presents himself to the blank page not with an open passport but an open heart.
Taiye Selasi -
At the national level, I don't know how to describe a threat to destroy Country A in order to punish Country B other than to call it state terrorism.
Barry Eisler -
I was aware, in those early days of motherhood, that my behaviour was strange to the people who knew me well. It was as though I had been brainwashed, taken over by a cult religion. And yet this cult, motherhood, was not a place where I could actually live. Like any cult, it demanded a complete surrender of identity to belong to it.
Rachel Cusk -
Football has been my life for as long as I can remember.
Jack Youngblood -
I'm not a very religious man, but I'm proud to be a Jew.
Irving Paul Lazar -
My advice to young people is to get something that's growing because that's how you get career opportunities thrown at you that you don't deserve, if you will... that come at you early because the firms need you.
Hamilton E. James
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You know, growing up, I lived in a neighborhood in Long Island where there was basically one black family. And I remember hearing all the parents and the kids in the neighborhood say racist things about this family.
Lorraine Bracco -
I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before.
Tadao Ando -
Man has an intense desire for assured knowledge.
Albert Einstein -
Urgent optimism is the desire to act immediately to tackle an obstacle, combined with the belief that we have a reasonable hope of success.
Jane McGonigal