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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Myself and David, we both love art. We have a lot of respect for Damien Hirst and Julian Schnabel, and we've met them both, and they're very interesting characters. I also have a lot of respect for the working women out there. As you know, it's not easy when you're looking after children and you have a career as well.
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I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that.
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I've lost all capacity for disbelief. I'm not sure that I could even rise to a little gentle scepticism.
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I'm not going to sit here and lobby anyone. We just got our butts whipped.
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I'm not a creature of Washington.
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If I had had to write only about imaginary people, I would have had to close up my typewriter. I wrote about my life in less and less disguise as I grew older, and finally with no disguise - except the disguise we create for ourselves, which is self-deception.
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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.
