Tawni O'Dell Quotes
People, including me, can get so detached from everything, but when you can focus on a defined place, a home, it gets you back in touch.
Tawni O'Dell
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I like to prove people wrong.
Zach LaVine
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I look back on some of my outfits, and I'm like: 'Why did I wear that? Where are my friends and why didn't they tell me not to leave the house?' If they had, I probably would've said, 'You don't know what you're talking about. This looks amazing.'
Zoe Kravitz
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I'm trying to focus on my job as I see it, which is to write the next thing and to remain, to the degree that I ever was, a noticer.
Garth Risk Hallberg
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The most memorable engagement for me, I suppose, was an away-day to Leicester. I went without William, so I was rather apprehensive about that.
Kate Middleton
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I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
Edie Falco
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People get cranky when you burst their bubble. Over time, advances in astronomy have relentlessly reinforced the utter insignificance of Earth on a celestial scale. Fortunately, political and religious leaders stopped barbecuing astronomers for saying so, turning their spits with human-rights activists instead.
Nathan Myhrvold
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Focus comes a lot more easily when you desperately want the results of your own work - nobody else is going to do it for you.
Palmer Luckey
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The term 'hero' irritates me greatly.
Irena Sendler
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I think that a lot of kids today focus on impressing each other. And while that's really nice, you also have to think about your future, about getting into a good school.
Kara Hayward
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I've never really felt like a veteran. I've never felt like the guy who's like, 'OK, everyone needs to look up to me and respect me.' I've always just been one of the guys that people are excited to get in the ring with. That's all I want.
A.J. Styles
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I'm just glad my gold medal's at home, because I'd hate to try to win another.
Caitlyn Jenner
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Collaboration is just, really, a group of people getting in a room with their eye on a very similar prize and wanting to come out with the same show. The director, ultimately, is the guy in front of whom the buck stops. So, he has to have the courage to prevail. But, he has got to have a huge amount of respect for his collaborators.
Harold Prince
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Among the group of people waiting at the fortress was a schoolgirl in a brown and yellow uniform holding a green eiderdown quilt and, by the loop at its neck, a red hot-water bottle.
Nadine Gordimer
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In my books, there are a lot of people stuck in rooms. Or, conversely, out in the wide open. It seems that, in a funny way, when people are cooped up in rooms they are freer than when they are wandering about in the world.
Paul Auster
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No matter what your job is, you know that you need to have a routine, that you need to be disciplined, you need to work.
J. B. Bickerstaff
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I'm about looking at each of those perceived menacing black men that you see in the streets all over the place, people that you oftentimes will walk past without assuming that they have the same humanity, fears that we all do.
Kehinde Wiley
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It really, truly is sad when it's over, man. To not have that regularness, that familiarity. I love working in television because of that. It's like going to see your family every day.
Drea De Matteo
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People, including me, can get so detached from everything, but when you can focus on a defined place, a home, it gets you back in touch.
Tawni O'Dell
