Angela Duckworth Quotes
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation.
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Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
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It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.
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To become the best comedian, I must be well-rounded.
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The trouble with glossy magazines is that they tend to be stuffed with articles about handbag designers - the sort of women who, with their perfectly styled lives, immaculate houses, and adoring partners, make you want to become a hermit.
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The worst mistake a woman can make is to emulate a man.
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We are hopeful that President Obama, in his State of the Union Address, will express a willingness to work with Republicans to enact all of these jobs bills.
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The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.
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I don't think I can speak of the achievements of Indian cinema because it's so large next to me. It's not stopping. It's ever-growing. We are going towards the right direction. We are evolving as a filmmaking industry as actors, directors, producers, singers, musicians. Everybody just pushing the boundaries.
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I always had a fascination with twins.
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Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.
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I'm very obsessed with not being perfect.
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Every vote counts and every vote must be counted.
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I don't see myself in the political realm.
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And so I missed those best years and I find it difficult for me, in groups, to be comfortable.
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I'm very much tied to the state of Israel, but I am against their policy of settlements in Palestine.
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Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear.
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I like Instagram - it's a good way to keep up with my friends without having to text or call all the time, and I really like Snapchat.
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I held 18, 19, or 20-year-old men in my arms, and I heard their last words, and I saw them take their last breath.
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Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.
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Michael O'Sullivan was my great friend. But I don't ever remember telling him that. The words that are spoken at a funeral are spoken too late for the man who is dead.
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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
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The words that we use I think are symbolic of the values that we hold.
