Barbara Ann Scott Quotes
The most important thing about skating is that it teaches you to do the things you should do before you do the things you want to do.
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I don't want to be known as an item dancer. I want to be known as an actress only.
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I don't set out to win awards. I don't think any musician does, but when you receive an award, it's an affirmation: it means that people appreciate what you do. Every award I have received is a confirmation of something I have done, and that motivates me to push a little harder.
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Humor is a wonderful way to deal with our suffering because if we can laugh at our troubles, we can feel better. Thich Nhat Hanh is a special man who has helped millions with their suffering with incredible technique. But he doesn't know real suffering, because he has not dated as much as I have.
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Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
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We are all different human beings, and we all have different backgrounds, and we stem from different social strata. That is what defines how you hear people talk, how you want to quote them when you speak. We all have different fears and doubts and complexes and this is what shapes the way we see other people. Especially characters.
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I didn't think then, and I still don't, that I was actually sick.
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In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.
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I do try very hard to develop themes that are easily understood and that, hopefully, will paint vivid images of the legal principles and implications of the ruling that will stick in the Justices' heads and will help influence how they think about the case.
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The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
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It's weird how people were always asking us, 'Are you real? Are you joking?' That seems like something Americans care about a lot. You can't answer the question 'Are you real?' If we're anything, we're documentary fiction.
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I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.
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While he was president, it was popular to be a Nixon hater.
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I didn't think of myself as a singer. I'm an actor who recites words, and sometimes that happens to be on musical notes.
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You have to take control of your own life, your own destiny, and your own careers. You can't leave everything up to someone else, 'cause then you can look at them and blame them.
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I really feel like I honed in on a sound and a style of writing that best fits me.
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Excellence isn’t about meeting the spec, it’s about setting the spec. It defines what the consumer sees as quality right this minute, and tomorrow, if you’re good, you’ll reset that expectation again
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I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.
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Money is important in the rap industry because you're always rapping to be bigger than the other person - bigger than who you're rapping to. A lot of my music is really, really, really humbled down. I don't have as much money as the average rapper, but I'm still good.
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I don't do serious.
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I feel like we want women to be simpler, less complex, so we project a lot of versions of simplicity onto them to fit that.
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The most important thing about skating is that it teaches you to do the things you should do before you do the things you want to do.
