Erin Gruwell Quotes
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The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.
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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
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Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.
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I was just making music in my bedroom. I never wanted to be onstage.
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I don't see money or a particular status as an actor as a goal, but I want to do the best work I can in as interesting a range of roles as I can.
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I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a legendary Jamaican band - had a little demo set up at his house. I'm very good friends with his eldest son, Shiah, who plays with me now. So we were rhyming over a track by the dancehall artist Peter Metro. I've still got it somewhere.
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Network TV is such a difficult, competitive landscape.
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I think that what happens for many Christians is, they accept their particular faith, they accept it to be true, and they stop examining it. Consequently, because it's already accepted to be true, they don't examine other people's faiths... That, I think, is not healthy for a person of any faith.
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I think character is very much a product of where you live, who you are, what is happening in that time of your life, and I'm interested in those pressures, those forces. A political context, a social context, really determines if not who people are then how they treat one another and what they say, how they speak.
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There is always a mix of apprehension and excitement before you try songs out on a new audience.
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I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it.
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Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
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Before going on 'X Factor' again, I felt like I'd tried everything else.
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You get to a new school, and you're the new guy, or you're the foreigner, or you're the guy with the funny accent. That first day at school was a whole new opportunity to create a new persona.
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Have a well-thought financial plan that is not dependent upon correctly guessing what will happen in the future.
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I was always ambitious - not to make money: to be published.
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Radicalization is very easy when you mock what people hold dear.
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I have more pet peeves than anybody: people talking in the movie theater, people eating in the movie theater loudly, people being rude, people making noise when you're supposed to be asleep, like drilling noises outside. I could be here all day.
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I'm so blessed to have such enlightened parents. It must have been very hard to watch their able-bodied son lock himself up in his old room for most of his 20s.
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Sophocles said he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were.
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I think the funny thing about acting for me - and I hold it in a very holy, spiritual way - not to be overly fundamentalist about it, but it's that important to me - is that it is an ancient healing art.
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If heaven send no supplies, The fairest blossom of the garden dies.
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Ruining is a gift .. it's the way of changing.
