Tammy Duckworth Quotes
I consider myself lucky to have been born into a family that valued service to both one's country and one's community.
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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Through the continued accumulation of detailed and reliable knowledge about elementary reactions, we will be in a better position to understand, predict and control many time-dependent macroscopic chemical processes which are important in nature or to human society.
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I'd like to scale back the television. I'm constantly told that I'm over-exposed, and I don't want to end up like Carol Vorderman.
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This is my journey. If I fall, I have to pick myself up. If I'm not getting the playing time I want, it's up to me to figure out why.
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I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
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Now is the only thing that exists.
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Acting is in your soul.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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We're actually thinking about distributing 'Moon Over Broadway' on-line. It's tempting, because when you go to a major studio, it's sort of like a farm, you know? They make all the money, since it's kind of a buyer's market.
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As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
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A good actor always sets you straight. If you've written a false moment and thought it was probably pretty great, the actor's gonna show you when he gets to that moment. They're the great test of the validity of the material.
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I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A.
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The West has become the world model; developing countries are dreaming of living like us, which is impossible. They should reject our model, because it is not sustainable. Developing countries should even give us the example, but unfortunately that's not what happens.
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I get inspiration from literally everything and anything. I take inspiration from people, relationships, stories, and I take inspiration from movies I see, books I read and songs I hear.
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I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
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Musical theater is one of my passions.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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When I was growing up in the '80s and working in the theater, David Mamet exploded with a whole new reworking of what dialogue should sound like. It was punchy and raw and repetitive, bursting with dynamic. I remember that switching on a lot of lights for me.
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Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
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You just want to hone your craft, whatever it may be.
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Actually, I've never thought myself as being a particularly hard worker. I've always worked, and I guess my mind is busy all the time. I've been in a lot of things just because of my own intellectual curiosity.
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I consider myself lucky to have been born into a family that valued service to both one's country and one's community.
