Danica McKellar Quotes
Students never think it can be the teacher's fault and so I thought I was stupid. I was frustrated and would come home and cry because I couldn't do it. Then we got a new teacher who made math accessible. That made all the difference and I learned that it's how you present it that makes it scary or friendly.
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There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.
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When belief in a god dies, the god dies.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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I did a lot of little girl groups here and there just to get more comfortable on stage. When you're in girl groups, it's a lot different because if you mess up, there's someone on stage to back you up, and finally I got to a point where I knew I could do it on my own.
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But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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We felt like, first and foremost, we were songwriters.
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I have had an experience which might perhaps be described as being shot down. At the same time, I call shot down only when one falls down. Today I got into trouble but I escaped with a whole skin.
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My parents were no ordinary people. My mother turned Gandhian, and my father was a staunch communist. They named me after the great saint as a symbol of communal harmony.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.
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My sole focus is to help bring a World Cup back to the U.S.
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I believe the United States is the greatest country on Earth. I really do.
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The claim that the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked because fundamentalists hate our prosperity and freedom is a ridiculous lie.
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Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It's the same with me and writing.
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It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it.
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It's obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.
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Interviews make me so nervous - I can't get a sentence out of my mouth.
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I think a lot of the stuff I'm playing now is crap.
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We live in a liberally free country founded by people who were liberal. They were beyond liberal - they were revolutionaries.
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Students never think it can be the teacher's fault and so I thought I was stupid. I was frustrated and would come home and cry because I couldn't do it. Then we got a new teacher who made math accessible. That made all the difference and I learned that it's how you present it that makes it scary or friendly.
