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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When I was a young person working, everybody was older than me, so I had to kind of keep up. I'd see every movie and listen to everything played, and read all the relevant books. Being an actor, it's kind of your job to know what came before you and how big your feelings are allowed to be.
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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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On Monday and Thursday, I eat fewer than 500 calories a day; then I eat like a pig for the other five days. You 'surprise' the body: keep it guessing. I got the idea from a BBC documentary about this Indian man who seemed about 138 years old and said his secret was severe calorie restriction.
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I'm doing another pilot about a black Democratic pundit who's married to a white Republican pundit. And the purpose of me wanting to do that show - and ABC sort of supported me in the way they did - is because I feel like, you know, the political system is like an old married couple.
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I've worked really hard, but I know people who have worked even harder but didn't have the chances I've had.
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I'm a very competitive girl. In everything I do.
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Did you really think I would be this excited about college if I thought I'd be leaving my girl behind?
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Here I am, this smart, bookish girl, and I have this biker-chick name.
