Tawni O'Dell Quotes
My experience growing up in a rough and tumble town in the blue-collar world of Western Pennsylvania in the 1970s was that anything a man did was always more important than anything a woman did.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less.
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Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.
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My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.
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Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
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Growing up, I was always in normal public school which is very important in my eyes.
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I have great stories. I am going to write a book.
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There are a bunch of places to stay in Des Moines, but I'd suggest finding a place on the west side of town. It's a great urban area that has a lot to offer tourists.
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The last Pan Am Games in 2011 was one of the best experiences in my career. It was the first time women's boxing was in the Pan Am Games and any major games, and I had the opportunity to box in the first women's boxing fight and then went on to win gold.
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The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.
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The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
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Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them.
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If I could start with anybody, I would initially draft Tom Brady. Then I would go get Ray Lewis, and then maybe an offensive lineman, or somebody like Adrian Peterson.
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I live a very normal regimented life that focuses on my training and my private life so I squeeze the insane stuff in around that.
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We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.
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Some day, I'd like to be known as the queen of containerboards.
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I phoned Joe Roth, who was head of the studio at the time, and told him how beautiful the film was, and that I was fully ready to support it, that Michael's work was wonderful and I imagined that Daniel would feel the same. He listened quietly and read between the lines.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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I think most people try to get others to see through their eyes.
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So I've gone in and out of the U.N., working on counter-terrorism, on U.N. reform, on peacekeeping, peace and security issues, many things through the years but always with a strong interest in humanitarian issues, and human rights issues as well.
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I was in love with the whole world and all that lived in its rainy arms.
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I have always felt a comedy's story is undercut if you have a villain who is not really menacing.
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When you want to move somebody, you have to say to yourself: 'I'm in the emotional transportation business. I gotta move them, emotionally.'
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My experience growing up in a rough and tumble town in the blue-collar world of Western Pennsylvania in the 1970s was that anything a man did was always more important than anything a woman did.
