Missy Franklin Quotes
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The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.
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I'm excited to join the StyleHaul community and bring new content to my fans.
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Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.
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Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.
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I am a hopeless romantic who falls in lust and gets in trouble. I love my work and am very productive, yet I always find time to play.
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I'm a hybrid, and I kind of like that. Raised by African parents, growing up I lived between Burkina Faso and Stains, a suburb just outside of Paris. In Stains, I had all the cultures in the world on my doorstep, and that opens up your mind.
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I don't think I always look in people's faces, like, as - I think especially when I'm doing my more intimate songs that are quite personal, I always feel it's a bit accusing if I stare in someone's face when I singing quite a personal lyric.
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I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.
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All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.
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I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.
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The reality of most software development is that the consequences of failure are simply nonexistent.
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In the early '90s, I was hired to write educational dramas about HIV and AIDS in the shantytowns. I did that for two and a half years, and then I was hired on other films. When 'Tsotsi' presented itself, I thought, 'This is not a world I grew up in, but I've spent a great deal of time writing about it and researching it in my past.'
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The list of problems that we all experience may be endless, but I honestly cannot abide by the rule that, 'He who yells louder is heard.'
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It gets boring to me when people talk about clothing brands or what boat they're going to buy next summer.
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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Governments getting involved in sports activities would ultimately damage sports.
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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But he did say that the character would be on the sidelines in movies One and Two, and move into the middle with number Three, but I didn't realize he would move in with quite such a bang.
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If your kids want to paint their bedrooms, as a favor to me, let 'em do it.
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Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
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I don't intend to stay around any longer than I feel I can be No. 1.
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I don't like watching myself on TV, I don't like reading about myself.
