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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The eye of God ends up inside, so that, in the end, you take care of judgment and punishment yourself.
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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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I literally cannot remember a time when I was not asking myself what events in 'Star Wars' were like for Princess Leia. The good side of all this is that what looked like 'goofing off' or 'daydreaming' these many years has all turned out to be valuable career preparation.
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It's like, boom! – I've got a girlfriend. It turned out to be a good thing because it made me a rapper.
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I just feel so fortunate, A, that I'm able to talk to people and B, keep in contact with my real friends.
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Quite a lot of British women stop working when they have children, and that is rarely the case in Denmark. We have a very flat, structured way of approaching everything. Nobody's the boss. In a sense, we're all equal.
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What's funny is that you can think you really value your life until you almost lose it.
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Substituting nuance for novelty is what experts do, and that is why they are never bored.