Garrett Morgan Quotes
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I think when I first started acting there were different people who I thought, 'I want that person's career or that person's career.' And as time has gone on, it's become really clear to me what is important to me; getting the best roles, the roles that I feel are challenging and scary and that I haven't done yet.
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Of course I want to look well and fit - and as an athlete, I want to look strong.
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I know what women want. They want to be beautiful.
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I've always been like this - insecure - because I'm striving for something that can't be attained. I don't just want to be OK at this: I want to be the best at it, and I've never achieved that in my mind.
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I practice on the roads of Gaza as we don't have good stadiums and tracks so I gave my best.
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Look your best - who said love is blind?
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First, I thought Twitter was some kind of hybrid car being developed by Government Motors. Then I thought it was a new bite-size snack combining what's best of the Frito and the Cheeto. Then I found out it was me. On a laptop. At the U.S. Open. Having fun.
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I'm potentially worth a lot of money, but I've got to go and make something that's worth a lot of money.
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Having someone cook all your meals is the best vacation ever!
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There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.
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Award shows, like the Grammys, were tough on us early in hip-hop, not even televising our categories or splitting them up on best male or female or any of that. We had to earn them.
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The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
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The climate at country radio is very, 'Let's keep it up-tempo,' probably best if you're a guy.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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Do what you really want to do. That's why God put you on this earth.
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You need people around you that care about you and are thinking about you in your best interest. And keep your mind straight.
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I want to see more Asian. I want to see more Latin. I want more Indian. There's more than Mindy Kaling out there, guys! There's more than Bai Ling.
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Adolescence, that swampy zone between safety and power, is best patrolled by adults armed with sense and mercy, not guns and a badge.
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Early in my publishing career, someone told me I'd need to have five books in print before I could quit my job as a journalist. Turns out it was closer to 10 books. It also turns out that while it's great to see my titles on bookstore shelves, my best customers are schools and libraries.
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Being part of a team helped me so much. I know the fact that there was a man in the room with me all those years made the medicine go down. I had made the companies money. I didn't have to start, like a lot of women, from ground zero. My path was not the same as a woman starting out by herself.
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You have to understand that while I pre-plot the meta story of a given book, I often have no idea of what will happen on the next page, let alone the next chapter. That's what makes it fun for me; I write the books the same way many people read them.
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The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.
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If you want to do something then be the best.
