Carol S. Dweck Quotes
I don’t mind losing as long as I see improvement or I feel I’ve done as well as I possibly could.Carol S. Dweck
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I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.
Fanny Howe -
I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.
Idris Elba -
Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
A. R. Ammons -
I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.
Nathalie Sarraute -
Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!
Gabrielle Reece -
There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming.
Ralph Fiennes
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I'll be totally honest in that I feel tremendously lucky that I am offered incredible jobs all the time to direct, but the problem that I have just personally is that there are only so many years in my life to dedicate to certain projects.
Lake Bell -
My dad is an unbelievable entrepreneur who balanced his life as a father and a president of two very successful companies.
Rachel Zoe -
I was aware, in those early days of motherhood, that my behaviour was strange to the people who knew me well. It was as though I had been brainwashed, taken over by a cult religion. And yet this cult, motherhood, was not a place where I could actually live. Like any cult, it demanded a complete surrender of identity to belong to it.
Rachel Cusk -
Whenever I've not known what to do, I've always gone back to the Carter Family because there was nothing like singing with my aunts and my mom to my grandma.
Carlene Carter -
If I'm chartering in and out and flying home after I play, that doesn't make sense. But where we can bus, then we'll bring the family out and spend time with them during the day.
Zac Brown Band -
What a beautiful step! I shall never be able to do it.
Margot Fonteyn
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I believe the main task of the spirit is to free man from his ego.
Albert Einstein -
Not many young women of my age have been lucky enough to have had a wonderful mentor in their life.
Beeban Kidron -
I got my first handgun license when I was 22.
Miranda Lambert -
If I'm going to be the black designer, I'm going to tell it my way.
Kerby Jean-Raymond -
What makes me sad about school is that the people who are unhappy are unhappy because they don't believe it will change. And I just want to say: 'It does! High school ends and it's over.' I will tell anyone that it's OK to be unhappy at school, make lots of mistakes and then it will be over.
Alice Englert -
Friends and family do not believe you write fiction. They truly believe that every word you write is either autobiographical or based on them. I once had a character say that she never wanted to be invited to another children's birthday party, and I never received another children's birthday party invitation ever again.
Liane Moriarty
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It is sufficient for you that the one who envies you is distressed at the time of your joy.
Uthman ibn Affan -
I'm not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I'm the girl who rarely has a boyfriend.
Taylor Swift -
it wont be long now It won't be long till earth is barren as the moon and sapless as a mumbled bone
Don Marquis -
I don’t mind losing as long as I see improvement or I feel I’ve done as well as I possibly could.
Carol S. Dweck