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.
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I like to prove people wrong.
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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.'
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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.
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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.
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So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
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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.
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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.
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London is the financial capital of Europe, a great platform to America and Asia. I love the fact that in British culture you can be whoever you want, and people don't even look at you. I don't feel that in Paris or Milan.
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When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.
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A lot of people don't realize that hair is a big thing for a lot of people, not just African-American women. It's something to be aware of and to be cautious of.
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I barely need to reiterate what you already know: the close links that exist between our people and the people of Venezuela and Hugo Chavez, the promoter of the Bolivarian Revolution and the United Socialist Party he founded.
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No-Drama Obama? Yeah, that's not me.
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There's not a blueprint for me to follow.
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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.
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The term 'hero' irritates me greatly.
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Traditional credentialing really doesn't have a lot of predictive value to if people will be successful.
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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.
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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.
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I'm just glad my gold medal's at home, because I'd hate to try to win another.
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It took me five years on Lyndon Johnson, ten years on the Kennedys, six years on the Roosevelts. Inevitably, you get shaped by the people that you're thinking about during that period of time.
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I've never really felt like I was a child actor. Just an actor who happened to be quite young.
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I worry that people think you have to go to a university to be a good writer, which is categorically untrue. I don't think I learned how to write at Oxford. I did not go to any creative writing classes or anything.
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Treaties, agreements and organizations to help settle disputes may be necessary, but they often favor the interests of business over citizens.
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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.
