Chalene Johnson Quotes
Ask yourself every couple of minutes, 'Can I go harder? Can I do more?' You've got so much power. Show me.
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Australia has a very big history of incarceration. What does that mean to us? What does it mean that we came over to a country that's not necessarily ours and filled it with white prisoners?
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No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
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I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.
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It's not until the very last phase that you know how good the works are going to be.
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If you can't move the audience, they don't want you.
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I am one of the 11.5% of New Yorkers who remain traumatized by the events of September 11.
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I'd be resentful if shareholders who don't know the business tried to tell me what to do.
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I totally disagree with the view that the Tibet struggle will die, and there will be no hope for Tibet, after the Dalai Lama passes away.
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I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.
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When I grew up, we went to Coney Island and Central Park. We'd find our way to the water and watch the fireworks.
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It's presumptuous for us to think we are the only beings in the cosmos.
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It may not be proper for me, perhaps, to let my feelings carry me further am therefore resigned to stop here, if sir, you think my particular reasons following too free, or will give offense to the House, which I would be sorry to be thought capable of intending.
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One good thing about acting in film is that it's good therapy.
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When people think of me initially, they remember me as 'Akeelah.' Sometimes it can be frustrating to be remembered at an age that you've outgrown.
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I don't fetishize objects.
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To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.
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When I read out loud in class, it was a joy for everyone else because I would mispronounce things so badly. I used to try to count how many people were in front of me and then work out which paragraph I would have to read out and start trying to learn it. And I would sit there thinking, 'Please let the bell go so that it doesn't get round to me.'
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If you're an American reader, you can love short stories the way other Americans love baseball; this is our game, people! We have more than two hundred years of know-how and knack, of creativity.
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Nothing compares to being in a room full of politicians screaming abuse at each other all night. It's hilarious but also a bit terrifying.
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In all my days of schooling, from preschool all the way up to 12th grade, there was not one white person in my class. Literally zero.
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When I started 'Still Missing,' I had a few key plot points in mind, which I played around with mentally for a couple of months, then one day I just started writing. Not having an outline led to some cool plot twists, but also many rewrites! A lot of the plotting happened on subsequent drafts.
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Ask yourself every couple of minutes, 'Can I go harder? Can I do more?' You've got so much power. Show me.
