Wendy Kopp Quotes
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I really love storytelling.
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I have dedicated my life to the 200m, I really love the 200m a lot.
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While you are improvising, you need to be prepared, and I like to have a sense of who the character is, what she likes to read, where she grew up, where we went to school, and what she has for breakfast, so that when I go to set, I'm free to explore.
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For me, being a mum has been a really, really instinctive thing.
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Well, I didn't really have a plan. I just wanted a hit.
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Taxes suck. They really stink.
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I really loved 'Witches of Eastwick', the movie with Michelle Pfeiffer and Jack Nicholson and Cher.
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I really am a cockeyed optimist.
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And I don't believe that women can successfully have it all. I really don't.
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Dining rooms are really all about the table and the chairs.
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I really like collections of things. I love antique botanical prints with a bunch of different weeds and seeds.
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Stillness as a technique is still really captivating to me.
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I think I've paid my dues. I've really put in a lot of time on set.
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I'd really like to work with Gwen Stefani and Cee Lo.
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I still think the best classic meal in New York is a coffee-shop breakfast - you sort of can't skip it.
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The first thing I do when I get up, I have breakfast.
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I like drums, really, if they're under control.
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You know you're going to have a good day when your morning begins with breakfast in the same room as Carrie Tiffany, David Vann and Lionel Shriver.
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There's nothing like starting the day with a healthy, filling breakfast smoothie.
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Inspiration can show up almost any time, though I have yet to see anyone scratching out melodic ideas on a restaurant napkin as legend would have us believe. I think inspiration comes from concentration, and early on I learned about Mark Twain's habit of leaving for his study after breakfast and not reappearing until the end of the day, ready to read to his family what he had just written. That set a good example for me, although I didn't copy his habit of taking twelve cigars along.
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We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.
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I have had many occasions this year where I questioned and second-guessed my decision in a game, but it comes down to learning from mistakes and being accountable for what you did right or did wrong.
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They did not believe in making any contracts. They believed that as long as you were organized, you could hold the office to what it said it was going to do. But a contract, a piece of paper held you and so they didn't make any contracts.
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I usually don't really have breakfast.
