Whitney MacMillan Quotes
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Personal discipline, when it becomes a way of life in our personal, family, and career lives, will enable us to do some incredible things.
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The great thing about baseball is there's a crisis every day.
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Art is the job of the privileged.
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I want to find a way to speak to the broadest audience possible.
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Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.
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I'm a little bit like a turducken: I'm sort of like an Indian person, wrapped in a British person, wrapped in an American kind of thing.
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I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.
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In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.
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As a mom of three young kids, it's difficult to reserve a big chunk of time for shopping, so I try to get my gifts little by little throughout the year. I think this is especially helpful for those of us who are budget conscious.
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I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.
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To capture sound is to isolate a moment, canonize it, enter it into the historical register.
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Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
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When I paint, some things come out, and I don't know. Maybe it's because I have such talent as a painter.
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Every celebrity in the world, if their movie bombs or whatever, they hold their kid up on a magazine and say, 'I'm really a dad.'
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Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
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Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.
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I think, for me, winning opens doors to all types of shapes and sizes and genres to come on the show and kill it. I'm probably the antithesis of what American Idols have been.
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Yes, the upper reaches of society are still dominated by men.
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Her Majesty's government is engaging not merely in Orwellian Newspeak but in self-defeating Orwellian Newspeak. The broader message it sends is that ours is a weak culture so unconfident and insecure that if you bomb us and kill us our first urge is to find a way to flatter and apologize to you.
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Some people are really good at playing the movie star - they are really good at cultivating that mystique - but I'm not really into that.
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Everyone always says, 'When you look at a boy band, one of them has to be gay.' No, they don't.
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There's not a lot of conversation going on in my world about softening my image. I'm pretty much who I am.
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Known to act a donkey on the camel-toe, then take the camel-toe and turn it into casserole
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We don't look at what happens in our business in six-month periods.
