Padgett Powell Quotes
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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I do hot yoga and TRX, a kind of suspension training.
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The duty of the media is to observe truth and social responsibility.
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I drove right into the music with the same sort of attitude as I went into the football stuff with. Just found a routine and hard work, and it helped me progress a lot faster.
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I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.
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I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.
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Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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I need one psychological expert to help me concentrate.
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Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.
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Wait a minute, I'm a fan of yours; you can't be a fan of mine!
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I hated school so bad. I only liked art class during high school. I was always smart.
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I'm not embarrassed about who I am. I'm not apologetic.
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I feel like I'm playing more of a role walking down the red carpet than when I'm playing an ordinary woman covered in sweat.
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I love football so when I finish playing I would like to still be involved in it somehow and a manager would be my first choice.
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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If I'm not happy with what's going on, I try to change it myself.
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I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.
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Quite often, I have a compelling sense of how a role should be played. And I'm proved - equally as often - quite wrong.
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I love Judy Garland, Shirley Bassey.
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You shouldn't send people out to do a job which you cannot afford to equip them to do.
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Our brain is essentially programmed to enjoy carbohydrates because they give us a sense of fullness and a rush of pleasure. When people go on low-carb diets, they start to almost subconsciously experience distress from eating carbohydrates.
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Oh my God, the luxuries we have in America. We just don't even realize because you live in it long enough and you come to expect it, but when you get to take a step outside of it you really, really get to recognize how blessed we are and how much we have.
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Life is a sandwich of activity between two periods of bed-wetting.
