Carla Overbeck (Carla Werden Overbeck) Quotes
We've gotten so much as a result of the changes. Part of our responsibility is to give something back to the game and the girls who are just starting to play.
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As a little girl, I thought I'd like to get married on the beach. But I'm not the quintessential girl who had these sort of fantasies about that stuff.
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The idea behind a dish - the delight and the surprise - makes a difference. Great literature surprises and delights, and provokes us. It isn't just 'Here's the facts - boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl.' It's how you tell it.
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If I were trying to impress a girl, I wouldn't get all super dressed because I would look like I was trying too hard. Instead, I would probably wear what I normally would.
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If you're trying too hard to be the girl next door, you're not going to be.
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And I realized that there was no sports reporter, so I started covering sporting events.
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Look at guys like Larry Bird and George Brett and John McEnroe; that's what they did in their careers. They all wanted to be the guy under the microscope late in the game or late in the match. So you just take on that know-how that that's part of your responsibility, and you learn that's what makes it exciting. That's what makes it fun!
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When I was a little girl, my dream was just to hear my song on the radio. It was very fascinating to me, and I was like, 'How do I do that?' Now it's like, 'Oh my God, my song is on the radio!'
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Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.
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I think if I was 5-foot-3, I would have been really popular and dated a lot more in high school. I didn't develop like the pretty girl.
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Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
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Sometimes I think I am still that 5-year-old girl playing with her dogs in the yard. That's how I see myself.
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A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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The special thing about 'Lost Girl' is it can be campy at times, but the show doesn't take itself too seriously, which is what separates it from other sci-fi TV shows. I love that.
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I have learned that not diamonds but divorce lawyers are a girl's best friend.
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She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.
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I have been chastised by a president, I have antagonized and angered presidents, and I have taken on my own leadership.
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I loved to do sports when I was young. We were on a family holiday and went sailing. I just loved it. And there, you can say, life began to change for me.
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In my 10 years, I never put a girl that was too skinny in French 'Vogue.'
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In a nutshell, Erhard's message was this: If you are in a rut, the problem isn't your parents, your boss or the system, it's you. Take responsibility, Erhard said, and you can transform your life overnight.
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I walked to the lake and sat on the shore for a few minutes, just staring at the moonlight on the water. Moonlight never gets old.
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I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It's best not to ask questions and just enjoy.
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News flash: The federal government is not the most efficient institution in the world. Taxpayers know that.
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And I think it's really easy for people to point out hypocrisy in people's lives.
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We've gotten so much as a result of the changes. Part of our responsibility is to give something back to the game and the girls who are just starting to play.
