Tammy Duckworth Quotes
The summer before I started college, my parents walked everywhere instead of taking the bus. Once a week, they would hand over $10 to the university housing office, a deposit so I could move into the dorms in the fall.
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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We do high heels, and people know us for that, but the idea of wearing a flat from day to night feels special.
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I loved math and science. It just made sense to me. But my hatred for world history has come to bite me in the butt in my adult years. Every show I have done professionally has required me to study the world in which my characters lived.
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The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the 'New York Review of Books,' and good friends of mine in France got very angry.
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This is one hell of a business I picked to be in.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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I can stay up watching TV so late.
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
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I had my father, and he was an amazing man and an amazing role model, so I always wanted to mirror that.
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I had this little Bon Iver phase a few years back; 'Flume' was one of my favourite songs.
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In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.
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Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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Wearing underwear on the outside of your clothes can turn a tedious trip to the store for a forgotten carton of milk into an amusement park romp.
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I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.
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Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.
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Human experience depends on everything that can influence states of the human brain, ranging from changes in our genome to changes in the global economy.
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Feminism, as it stands, well... stands. It has ground to a halt.
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I think that sometimes you can be an example of what to do and what not to do, and I think most of the time I'm an example of what not to do.
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I'm not a ball in a pinball machine. I know what I want.
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There's a tradition in American fiction that is deadly serious and earnest - like the Steinbeckian social novel.
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We used to speak familiarly of an agent, now do more, who was accustomed to manufacture evidence, and to invent facts in his cases, or at least to alter the aspects of facts to such an extent that they might fairly be viewed as new.
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My parents owned a soul food diner. It inspired me to go to culinary school.
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So there is a personal sense of style for a given work - I don't like a general style, but every work has its own style, and I want to create a style for every work.
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The summer before I started college, my parents walked everywhere instead of taking the bus. Once a week, they would hand over $10 to the university housing office, a deposit so I could move into the dorms in the fall.
