Annette Gordon-Reed Quotes
I am enormously pleased to become a part of the Harvard community once again. I look forward to working with the students and faculty members at the Law School and in the History Department, and to experiencing the rich interdisciplinary environment at the Radcliffe Institute.
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You got me: I do Pilates. I love Pilates because we do very specific training in soccer for the same six or seven muscles, but we neglect so many other muscles. So when I do Pilates, it helps get all the rest of the muscles in shape and gets them working together.
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Voter ID laws have a disproportionate impact on groups that lean democratic - including blacks, hispanics and students.
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It would be hypocritical of me to use being female in some ways, and diss being female in other ways. It's part of the programme.
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My mom started working at the California Shakespeare Theater in Oakland when I was two years old, so I've always grown up around theater.
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I love working in America, I love being part of the industry out here.
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There's a part of my heart that forever has Anne Boleyn written on it, who I played in 'The Tudors.'
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After you do this for a while, you get used to things not working the way you want them to. There's a job you want, and you don't get it. There's a movie you'd like to get made, and it doesn't get made. You become inured to it.
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I don't see the point in working just to be working.
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Pops played football for LSU. Ever since I can remember, I've been working with him running routes and stuff.
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I was working for the CIA and prohibited from speaking publicly.
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I think some actors thrive on working at a much greater pace than I do.
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I prefer working in good cinema, wherever it is. I like subjects that have a universal appeal.
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I would wake up really early and go into the hotel bathroom, put a towel over the toilet, and put my laptop there. I'd put my headphones on and just write. And so now when I do writing sessions, and I am stuck on a part, or I can't figure out a chorus, I'm just like, 'Give me a second,' and I'll go to that bathroom.
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I have a theater background, so I like finding beats, working on things and having rehearsal.
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Working out is my biggest hobby. It's my Zen hour. I just zone out.
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It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
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When you're working well, you don't do research. Whatever you need comes to you.
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It's a very unique feeling - to be that strong and unbreakable. But I'm working towards it.
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We don't mind working hard to be successful. We don't mind working to be at our best.
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The only planning I do is about a minute before I play. I desperately try to think of something that will be effective, but I never sit down and work it out note for note.
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Throughout the 1980s, we did hear too much about individual gain and the ethos of selfishness and greed. We did not hear enough about how to be a good member of a community, to define the common good and to repair the social contract. And we also found that while prosperity does not trickle down from the most powerful to the rest of us, all too often indifference and even intolerance do.
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Become Your Own Hero.
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There was a child went forth everyday, And the first object he looked upon and received with wonder or pity or dread, that object he became, And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of the day... or for many years or stretching cycles of years.
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I am enormously pleased to become a part of the Harvard community once again. I look forward to working with the students and faculty members at the Law School and in the History Department, and to experiencing the rich interdisciplinary environment at the Radcliffe Institute.
