Carrie Ann Inaba Quotes
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In Cuba, I would start the first two months hitting around .260 with three or four home runs. After the first half of the season, I would get hot, and that's when I would have my best results.
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I loved math and science. It just made sense to me. But my hatred for world history has come to bite me in the butt in my adult years. Every show I have done professionally has required me to study the world in which my characters lived.
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I'm curvy.
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I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.
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There's a group of people - maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them - who have morphed this idea, that you have to accept my values being every bit as cherished as your values. That's not tolerance... There are too many things in this world which we sit back and tolerate.
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If I wished to do something, even if I couldn't find anyone who wanted to make the effort with me, I would go out solo climbing. I did find solo climbing very challenging and a little frightening. You knew that you were completely on your own, and you had to overcome all the problems and possible dangers.
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The best fiction stays with you and changes you.
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I love my job so much, and not everyone can say that and I recognize how lucky that is.
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Most writers are unhappy with film adaptations of their work, and rightly so. 'Field of Dreams,' however, caught the spirit and essence of 'Shoeless Joe' while making the necessary changes to make the work more visual.
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'Until Friday Night' is the first book in my new young adult series, 'The Field Party.'
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I don't do rewrites. I put all the pages in a pile next to the typewriter.
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Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion.
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Adults sometimes think children don't think. That's what propels them to order children around. But children do integrate thoughts and make sense of them. When I was a child, I thought about everything in the universe.
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If I'm in a slump, I ask myself for advice.
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When I go to the interviews and sit before a prospective employer, I'm going to try and look as employable as I can.
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You've got to change incentives for good behavior as opposed to just disincentivizing bad behavior.
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Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.
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I love to start characters in a place where you think you know them. We can make all kinds of assumptions about them and think they have no redeeming qualities, but like everyone, they're complex.
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We do not wish to impoverish the environment any further, and yet we cannot for a moment forget the grim poverty of large numbers of people. Are not poverty and need the greatest polluters?
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I got some new underwear the other day. Well, new to me.
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The time for me in the Peace Corps was easily the most formative experience I've had in my life.
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When I hire actors I believe in their abilities.
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I love being a mixed-race woman in 2017. I feel part of something big. There's this understanding that we're all in it together.
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I'm considering going back to school to become a registered dance therapist.
