Terry Gross Quotes
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I'm actually so low maintenance when it comes to my hair. It's naturally stick-straight, but I do like to use a curling iron to give my locks some life.
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What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.
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I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.
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The demand that school finances be transferred away from local school districts to the state and/or federal government has been a long-time favorite of the educationist lobbies.
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Since the dawn of recorded music, every generation has felt shocked by the musical tastes of the next.
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I can relax in L.A. I think I'm the only person in that town who doesn't want to act. I was an OK singer. I was an OK dancer. But acting? Never could do it.
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For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.
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Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.
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The pressure on women to be thin is like a plague. I have gone through my life, like a lot of women, rating my experiences on the basis of, 'Was I thin at that time or fat?' And it doesn't seem to let up.
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My first year of college was tough. I thought that just being an athlete I could get by. I thought I was okay until I got kicked out, which happened twice.
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I like to work and it kind of keeps me in line, which is very good because I need that structure.
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The real problem is that there's a tendency to associate ageing with loss and decline and things that aren't desirable. But experiencing all that there is to experience in life - whether that's at the age of ten or thirty or fifty or eighty - is what life is all about.
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We are not coaching on a daily basis because we often travel with our charity and commercial interests.
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I'm now a member of a pretty small club.
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My characters are not underachievers; they aspire to great things, but they are limited by the world around them.
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I love to travel the world. My husband and I always travel and everywhere we go I've been to Italy, of course London, Ireland, and you just receive so much love.
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I've got lots and lots planned out, and other ideas knocking around in my head, too. I'm kind of an obsessive pre-planner, so I have a lot of material.
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I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young.
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I'm a risk taker and I've always been like that, especially when it comes to fashion.
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Sometimes it has to feel worse before it feels better.
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Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.
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It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.
