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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Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.
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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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I had no idea where these kids at a small private college in the San Fernando Valley were coming from, why they were coming to hear me, or what they needed to know.
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The phrase 'private option' itself has become politically toxic.
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We have made tremendous progress. But there are still too many kids in our country who grow up feeling like they have to hold on to this secret about who they are because, if anyone finds out it, could cost them everything.
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A blessed spirit is a mould ever more and more patient of the bright metal poured into it, a body ever more completely uncovered to the meridian blaze of the spiritual sun.
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Substituting nuance for novelty is what experts do, and that is why they are never bored.
