Tom Odell Quotes
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I just have always felt that I think we know that it's an ensemble show, and it's very hard to pick a show to submit when you're nominated, because usually everyone has a very strong part in every episode.
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The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
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I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.
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I myself feel that I'm a well-rounded player and got a lot better defensively and without the puck as time has gone on.
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I almost got a psychology degree, I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn't make me graduate. I studied anthropology and eastern religion, epistomology, and astronomy... I took every interesting course I could find for nine years.
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It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.
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Sometimes you have to resist working on your strengths in favour of your weaknesses. The decathlon requires a wide range of skills.
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It'll take a while for all those strange old books that I love to show up on digital: books that aren't current bestsellers but aren't public-domain freebies, either.
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You can be accessible without catering to an audience.
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We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s.
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I lived near Santa Cruz for ten years, and the whole time, it bothered me what an exclusionary definition of 'inclusion' was in force. Social censure was applied to those who expressed unpopular or uncomfortable ideas.
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I don't know if I was a poseur - I really did love metal, always - but I gave a lot of other things a chance. I wanted to meet, um, girls, so I would check out 'Depeche Mode.'
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When you're going through tough moments, you never know when you're going to have good moments.
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It's important to contribute to group discussions, but if all you're thinking about is when you'll get the opportunity to speak - and stressing about whether you'll sound smart - you won't be fully engaged in the conversation.
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Sometimes, the action genre does get stale. Although I want to go back and see my favorite characters in their tentpoles - and will religiously do that - it's really fun to see breakout ideas and concepts. Let's make some new stories.
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I see no reason to use offensive tools unless you're defending the country or in a state of war, or you want to achieve some really important thing for the good of the nation and others.
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I can't bring out something I've already worn. I want to make sure I don't look down. I want people to say, 'Man, he looks good'.
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This majority is working for America, and one of those ways is we have tremendously low unemployment. This economy has created millions of new jobs, and we are expecting growth this first quarter of somewhere higher than 4 percent.
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I'm somebody who can absorb a lot.
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There is nothing like singing a song that 20,000 people know and are singing back to you.
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I like listening to the whole song. Like my father says, "If you can't pick the whole song, then why are you playing it?"
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We don't do it for the money... we do it for the music.
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Songs are about just being totally honest and putting those words to music.
