Ann Trason Quotes
I was just doing what I love to do. I don't like to be the center of attention. We're all out there trying to finish Western States – it never felt like I was better than anybody else.
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The thing about markets, and I think the thing people don't understand about that, is markets are not kind, but they're very efficient. So when the marketplace determines an inefficiency in the system, it corrects that, and a market system that's left alone will reward good behavior and punish bad behavior.
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Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint.
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For me everything in the film was gradually building, becoming more emotional, so it helped. At the end of it all I was emotionally drained. At that point I took Rose's view, that this has to happen, there's nothing I can do about it.
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I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
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It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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You know, I don't really understand a suburban environment. I want to be out in the woods, I want to be where it's wild, I want to wake up and hear birds, I want to walk outside and see a gaggle of turkeys bouncing across my lawn - I want to be someplace like that - or I want to be right in the middle of an urban environment.
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All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer.
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I was once an extra in a Bruce Springsteen video where they did a live performance video at Tramps. I forget the name of the song.
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People say I look younger than the music I'm doing just because the songs are older. Hopefully I can keep my youthful look!
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I always felt that Jay Z, if he had a different upbringing, could be on Wall Street or in politics. If you really listen to Jay Z talk, he's kind of the smartest guy in the room.
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With every film that you do, you're always so nervous. You feel exposed because you know people will see this eventually. You sort of have to put all that out of your head. What will be will be. But it's nerve wracking.
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It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like.
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I ran the Iditarod twice. I finished once. I came in 42nd or 43rd place out of 70 plus teams the first time, and I scratched 80 miles from Nome the second time. You can read about my experience in the race in my books 'Woodsong' and 'Winterdance.'
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My husband is a fall-away Catholic, but with a vengeance. He's actually more of a feminist than I am.
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You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.
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I love love stories, no matter how dark.
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My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.
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I feel like I was in the last graduating class of commercial actors. TiVo! I was out there before TiVo came out, man.
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When people write the history of this thing, of bitcoin, they are not going to write the story of 6 million to a billion. What is truly remarkable is the story of zero to 6 million. It has already happened! And we’re not paying attention! That’s incredible. That’s what had one chance in a million and it already happened.
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Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.
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I was just doing what I love to do. I don't like to be the center of attention. We're all out there trying to finish Western States – it never felt like I was better than anybody else.
