Mirai Nagasu Quotes
Pre-competition rituals include nap time, because when competition rolls around, I'm a sloth. I also FaceTime my dogs.
Quotes to Explore
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As a woman, I've learned that having a uniform of your staples or setting your look and saying what distinguishes you - like red lips or hair or whatever - leaves so much time for the rest of the day.
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Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.
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I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque.
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By knowing your character so well you can't go wrong. All of us kind of fell into that.
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Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.
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A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.
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A storytelling device teaches. I hate to say it that way, because kids tune out. I don't teach on purpose, but I'm glad that it happens sometimes.
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I would think, to me, growing up in the south, growing up with all the gospel music, singing in the church and having that rhythm and blues - the blues background was my big inspiration.
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When you get the respect of the fans, it's very hard not to be happy.
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No one has approached me about Captain Marvel. But I don't know if I'd even want to play Captain Marvel. I would much rather play a villain and be nasty. It's more fun.
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There were exceptions, a couple of families that just plain didn't want to even think about it, although forty years had passed but mostly the people were very interested in talking about it.
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For me, hour-long drama was always the thing I felt the most comfortable doing, and I've played so many dramatic roles in the theater.
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My university teacher and mentor Kenneth Arrow remembers me as a student who asked good questions. Although I had not previously thought of myself in that way, on reflection I think that Arrow was right.
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On big issues like war in Iraq, but in many other issues they simply must be multilateral. There's no other way around. You have the instances like the global warming convention, the Kyoto protocol, when the U.S. went its own way.
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It really is a blessing when two people who are so full of dignity and kindness and really live to make the world a better place get together.
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The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.
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I've been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time.
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'Rachael Ray does to food what Hitler did to Poland.' Attributed to credentialed chef Anthony Bourdain.
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Don't get up. Just sit a while and think. Never be afraid to sit a while and think.
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If anyone ever tells me something doesn't go together, it makes me want to try it.
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My idea is to give hope, because where there is no hope, there is no vision, and where there is no vision, people will perish.
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Marriage is all right, but I think it's carrying love a little bit too far.
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Competition for the sake not of destroying one another, but for the sake of bettering and improving both competitors as a result of the competition.
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Pre-competition rituals include nap time, because when competition rolls around, I'm a sloth. I also FaceTime my dogs.
