Tawni O'Dell Quotes
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'Glee' is one of the very few mainstream outlets that is giving a voice to communities of people that don't necessarily have a loud voice, specifically the gay community. It gives a really positive and forward statement.
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I want to pursue a career in film.
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I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.
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I like big thinkers who, no matter how big their vision, can sit down and talk to me about hour-to-hour, day-to-day type stuff they do to move the ball forward.
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The digital revolution has also meant a revolution in access to information. This puts more power and knowledge into the hands of nonexperts.
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You have to decide who you are going to serve - stockholders or your customers.
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If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.
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As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.
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I so never went through a bad-girl period.
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It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.
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I really am an open book. I don't keep anything in at all, which is good and bad.
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My experience in Iraq made me realize, and during the recovery, that I could have died. And I just had to do more with my life.
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But no, I'm still living in LA and haven't dropped off the face of the earth.
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I am very much a Republican.
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A certain tiny percentage of everyone is gay.
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Wrestling is different to me. As I talk to other wrestlers, wrestling seems a little different to me than it does to a lot of them. To me, it's about an artistic performance and about honing my artistic performance in pursuit of these minute moments of perfection. These little encapsulations. And none of them are ever perfect.
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It's the face and the body and the thing that we hide inside that can keep us from the world, but my voice is my voice.
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If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
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To possess a good cognomen is a long way on the road of success in life.
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My belief is that no movie, nothing in life, leaves people neutral. You either leave them up or you leave them down.
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I'm not making any money, but I view it as some sort of investment, or like buying myself a great present.
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'You have chickens?' That's what nearly everyone asks next, after they find out about our family pets. They just need to make sure they heard me correctly. Perhaps it's because I don't come across to most as a rural-loving farm girl.
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All she wanted was to be a little girl, to be efficiently taken care of by some yielding yet superior power, stupider and steadier than herself. It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream
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Here I am, this smart, bookish girl, and I have this biker-chick name.
