Amanda Smith Quotes
I just used a lot of my junk and it was all working today. I just try to keep the ball down. I'm not a strikeout pitcher. When we got the lead and added to it that helped to take the pressure off me.
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One of the things you want as a successful writer is the anonymity.
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I love Mike Tyson. I was a fan, as everybody else was. The moment somebody stood up to him, he didn't do so well. And that's the same thing with Anthony Johnson. The guy's a bully. He wants to intimidate you; he wants to dominate you. He wants to knock you out. But what happens when you don't knock somebody out? What happens?
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I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.
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My Mt. Rushmore of hero worship would include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Marcus Aurelius, Frank Sinatra and Barry White.
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But I think my mistakes became the chemistry for my miracles. I think that my tests became my testimonies.
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It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.
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I do love getting dressed up, but sometimes it's glam and edgy mixed together.
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In my case, the long gaps between my books have got quite a lot to do with lack of confidence. A lot of the time when I'm not writing I start thinking I can't do it.
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If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.
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I've never been much of a computer guy at least in terms of playing with computers. Actually until I was about 11 I didn't use a computer for preparing for games at all. I was playing a bit online, was using the chess club mainly. Now, obviously, the computer is an important tool for me preparing for my games.
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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The cardinal rule of taxation is that whatever you put a levy on, you'll inevitably get less of. Taxing corporate activity means less investing, less hiring, fewer jobs and a smaller economy, which hurts the rich, the poor and the middle class alike.
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Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.
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If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.
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Black history isn't a separate history. This is all of our history, this is American history, and we need to understand that. It has such an impact on kids and their values and how they view black people.
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Muslim moderates, wherever they are, must be given every tool necessary to win a war of ideas with their co-religionists. Otherwise, we will have to win some very terrible wars in the future.
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In this business, you just never know from day to day. It's one reason I held off getting too involved in entertainment. I like being able to plan, I like to know what I'm going to be doing.
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I try never to focus on the radio, just find great songs, find emotion and just write the best songs you can. I think when you get fixated on trying to do something too accurate, it becomes more washed out and less what you intended it to be. So I think each time the challenge for me is to try and reinvent a little bit.
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I feel pressure, but my emotions just don't show that much in my face.
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The process clearly is a process that leads in the direction of two states, ... We will lead in the direction of two states.
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I believe life has become more stressful for young, growing children. Kids are growing up in a much more stressed environment. These are multiple gene disorders and, like diabetes, not everyone with the gene gets diabetes. But if they have the genetic vulnerability to become depressed or anxious or obsessive compulsive, it will express itself in the kind of social pressure cooker we are putting our children in.
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I just used a lot of my junk and it was all working today. I just try to keep the ball down. I'm not a strikeout pitcher. When we got the lead and added to it that helped to take the pressure off me.
