Laura Moser Quotes
Grit can't be measured on pop quizzes, but it can often predict long-term success more than mere intelligence.
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I used to sing in jazz clubs with a friend until she went another way.
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Now, do I think the baby boomers tend to be self-absorbed? I do.
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Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.
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People think that I have this wonderful hourglass figure, but I owe that to designer Tadashi Shoji because he cuts for me really well.
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I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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It wasn't until the first season ended that I went to my first Star Trek convention. It was in Denver. There were two and a half thousand people there.
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My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a group of grown-ups, my mother among them, and the group was slowly walking in the orchard, it seems toward the house.
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I enjoy my life, I love track, I'm set for life financially.
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I don't know if I have a 'Greatest Album Ever.' I really liked 'The Blueprint' by Jay-Z. The production on that album was really great. 'All I Need' was the first song I used for walk-on music in 2002 for my second time ever on stage, so that means a lot to me.
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In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.
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My father was a Foreign Service officer, a diplomat and an Arabist who spent virtually all his career in the Near East, as it was called in the State Department. So I spent most of my childhood among the Israelis and the Arabs of Palestine, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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I need a girl who will put me in my place, but I also want to laugh and have a good time.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.
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The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.
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Have I been wiretapped? Yes. But who they said wiretapped me was incorrect.
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If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say it's too complex is to insult the intelligence of the so-called young.
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I've never had as much success as when I say to myself, 'I get that. I know what the feelings that that character would be going through would be like. I can feel a through line from beginning to end.'
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If you think success will make you happy, you have it backwards.
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It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.
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The true method of knowledge is experiment.
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Grit can't be measured on pop quizzes, but it can often predict long-term success more than mere intelligence.
