Angela Duckworth Quotes
Substituting nuance for novelty is what experts do, and that is why they are never bored.
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All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we commented on one episode just being ourselves, so - not really. I was comfortable, though. I wasn't nervous.
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Being called a conscious rapper is quite a compliment. It's a great thing to be. But as an artist, my nature is to not be in a box.
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As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write an abstract piano sonata or a concerto, I write what I feel. I'm not a self-conscious composer.
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I must stick with Chinese language films.
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I like shopping at retail places like JC Penney or Macy's, and maybe buying a top or a shirt, and then buying a skirt from Rue 21 or Forever 21 because they have the maxi skirts, which I appreciate so much, and then topping it off with something that I buy from a Somali shop.
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I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.
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Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
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One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). It's why he found shooting on set boring - because he had already composed the film in his head.
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I love aging. Why would I want to be 21 for the rest of my life?
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Anger has a way of seeping into every other emotion and planting itself in there.
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When I run in Ethiopia, I look out and see eucalyptus trees and rivers.
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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.
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We gave the world dab fever!
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You never know what can happen in football. It's football.
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My father's record collection was full of New Orleans music of all kinds. I used to listen to the radio in New York, and all there was on it at the time was Madonna and Michael Jackson, so it sort of passed me by.
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And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that's fine with me!
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If you're a writer, you're always working.
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But Philip was impatient with himself; he called to mind his idea of the pattern of life: the unhappiness he had suffered was no more than part of a decoration which was elaborate and beautiful; he told himself strenuously that he must accept with gaiety everything, dreariness and excitement, pleasure and pain, because it added to the richness of the design.
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Why shouldn't a car key look like a car?
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I had no inclination to perform as a kid. I was a shy child - I always had my nose in a library book. I didn't start acting until I went to college. Once I started, it seemed to fit like a glove. I felt completely at home on stage. It was the perfect way for me to express myself, even better than writing.
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There's no doubt there are issues with clay. Our issues have issues that are issues right now. That's not a secret.
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Substituting nuance for novelty is what experts do, and that is why they are never bored.
