Danielle Dutton Quotes
It's all just so fraught when you're writing and then going through the editorial process. It feels like this shape-shifting thing. When it's done, and you can't change a single word, it's a totally different thing. I was surprised by what that thing was.
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I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
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No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.
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I'm a hybrid, and I kind of like that. Raised by African parents, growing up I lived between Burkina Faso and Stains, a suburb just outside of Paris. In Stains, I had all the cultures in the world on my doorstep, and that opens up your mind.
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I love samosas filled with mincemeat. My mum makes really great ones.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.
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Although they are unfailingly gracious, evangelicals are not so good at respecting professional boundaries.
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I'm a romantic, but I'm not a romantic in the traditional sense. I like to romanticize what happens to me. Whatever happens to me - you could quantify it as good or bad - I romanticize it. I think along the lines of 'When that thing happened, it made me who I am.' That kind of thing. It's a different way of being romantic.
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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
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California lacks a lot of the rules and restrictions the East has. Every house is a different style, different material, different color. There's a lot of craziness out there.
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Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by.
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We can all get behind feeding the poorest kids in school, right?
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I'm going to do some consulting for nonprofits and arts agencies. These are areas I'm interested in that didn't come directly out of Harvard, but certainly I started looking at things in a different manner.
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I get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics.
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Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world.
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I think being sublimely happy is the only thing I could ever hope for in life.
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I would never kill a living thing, although I probably have inadvertently while driving automobiles.
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We were too young to know better, and none of us were very aggressive people. It would have helped a lot if just one of us had been aggressive enough to say no.
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Performance is something we all strive to be better at. I'm no different than that. Who wants to look bad?
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There is a synergy between the way Croatians approach life and the way Jesuits do. Croatians are very real about situations. We don't gloss over things. If there are issues to deal with, you deal with them.
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Boring people are a reflection of boring people.
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I've always been a really ambitious person.
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I really am disappointed when I run into people who are angry I'm leaving office.
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It's all just so fraught when you're writing and then going through the editorial process. It feels like this shape-shifting thing. When it's done, and you can't change a single word, it's a totally different thing. I was surprised by what that thing was.
