Tawni O'Dell Quotes
When you live in a community where people know you, it makes you want to be good and decent. It's a strong influence.

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I'm a Nietzschean scholar. I've read an immense amount about nihilism and existentialism.
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If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.
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I think of Twitter as the place where I go to have a great conversation when I can't have one locally, which seems to be all the time, and the more time that I spend on Twitter, the more I sort of curate this incredible group of very intelligent people that I just get to know purely through the quality of their thoughts.
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Indonesia is hardly immune to catastrophic breakdowns, as the anti-Communist pogrom showed. But, like India, it has been relatively fortunate in evolving a mode of politics that can include many discontinuities - of class, region, ethnicity, and religion.
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I've been around tennis, and I have a feeling for the sport. I still play tennis, and I can still do a lot of harm to a lot of people.
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Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
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Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States - old as well as new - North as well as South.
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I would like every Jew to be as comfortable in his skin as I am in mine.
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The first English settlers of North America knew they were making history. New Englanders in particular were so sure of it that they started writing their own accounts of themselves as soon as they got here.
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Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.
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I have a few unusual fans, as you can imagine, so I try to protect the privacy of my home life.
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Gustafsson is a stud, man. He's a good fighter.
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The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.
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Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens life.
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I work very hard at my game.
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I love running and I will always run.
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I love New York City; I've got a gun.
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Grammar, he saw, was agreement, community, consensus.
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I constantly make fashion mistakes but I think it's good to take risks.
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I like to rehearse with the actors scenes that are not in the script and will not be in the film because what we're really doing is trying to establish their character, and good acting to me is about reacting.
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When you live in a community where people know you, it makes you want to be good and decent. It's a strong influence.