Ann Burton Quotes
Sloths have low metabolisms, so they have to move slowly in order to conserve energy. However, they aren't aimless or "lazy" and they actually move around quite a lot - just very, very slowly.
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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I cannot control what goes on in another lane and this is how I focus on the Games. There is no point in being nervous of other swimmers. It's just about focusing on yourself and what you need to do in order to perform at your best.
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
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Job-wise, I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago, but I hate when people vomit.
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Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.
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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.
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I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
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Winning the Stanley Cup in '99 was a dream come true. I'll never forget it.
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I really enjoy doing sitcom television. It allows me to stay in Los Angeles and spend more time with my husband and kids.
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I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.
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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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The writing part of my life never changes, because that's just when the inspiration comes.
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I love baseball. The game allowed me the influence to impact kids in a positive way. This gives me a chance to talk to some social issues.
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It's very important, at least for me and for Cynthia, to get outside input.
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Are human beings innately aggressive? ...The answer to it is yes. ...Only by redefining the words 'innateness' and 'aggression' to the point of uselessness might we correctly say that human aggressiveness is not innate.
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A lot of my friends growing up were hunters, but I spent all my time on the ice hurting actual humans playing hockey. I never had the chance to run through the woods and shoot at a moose or deer. I was shooting pucks at goaltender's heads.
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There are many people inside Iran who say, "We don't have enough to eat. Why do we need a nuclear bomb?"
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I've been writing songs all along, and since moving to Nashville in the late-'80s, I'd begun writing something like 15-20 songs a year, instead of the typical three or four in previous years.
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Many writers will get a contract by selling chapters and outlines or something like that. I wrote the entire novel, and when it was all finished, I would give it to my agent and say, 'Well, here's a novel; sell it if you can.' And they would do that, and it was good because I never had anyone looking over my shoulder.
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Sloths have low metabolisms, so they have to move slowly in order to conserve energy. However, they aren't aimless or "lazy" and they actually move around quite a lot - just very, very slowly.
