Deena Kastor Quotes
Running in the morning has me appreciate all the choices that come later in the day. The choices I make after running seem healthier, wiser and kinder.
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For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
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I don't play anymore, because I know I'm not going to be a pro golfer. So there's no reason to golf.
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All I wanted to do was be a working actor.
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I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.
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I am a free man. I don't need to earn money. But I need to love what I do.
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When I was elected, I was the youngest member of the Tennessee congressional delegation; now, I'm one of the oldest. In fact, I have members of my staff who weren't even born when I took office. That tells me it's time for a new chapter.
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I was a huge fan of 'Game Of Thrones.' I hadn't read the books but had watched the series from the beginning.
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The Americans are more honest about it and just call it college rock.
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As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
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I was fortunate to have a grandfather who was an optometrist. Vision therapy was something that we routinely did to strengthen our eyes and give us better focus. I was fortunate that he could teach me techniques that are still paying dividends for me to this day.
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Perhaps concentrated wealth will inspire a nation of innovative problem-solvers. But if the view of many economists is right - that it sometimes discourages innovation - then we should worry.
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Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.
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I wanted to do an episode about Chuck having a gambling problem. I wanted to portray my addiction on the show. But I think it's a little edgy for Saturday night.
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I love doing short films because they're much more intimate and there's far less waiting around than on the bigger films.
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When you play, it's like you know that there are people out there who are hearing it for the first time, and I think that's really important.
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As brilliant an individual that Michael Jordan was, he was not successful until he got with a good team unit.
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I was born in Northern California and lived there until I was about eight years old. Then my parents moved me up to Seattle. I lived there from ages eight to 16. When I was a California kid, I remember running around in my bathing suit and barefoot all the time and getting a suntan.
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Everything is getting bigger. The way to go now is to program in a little more sophistication.
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Nabokov, who I loved more than any other writer when I was young, had such contempt for dialogue. When I was younger, I never wrote a word of dialogue because of him. I thought it was a childish part of a novel.
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Develop wisdom in sales by reflecting on your experience, and learning everything you can from every call.
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The social damage was not in the failure but in the undertaking, which was expensive. The cost of war was the poison running through the 14th century.
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I was just a kid and I didn't have a dad. That's hard, because when you're a kid, you blame yourself for everything. And I blamed myself for him not being around, for my parents not being together.
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Running in the morning has me appreciate all the choices that come later in the day. The choices I make after running seem healthier, wiser and kinder.
