Angela Duckworth Quotes
It is important to realize that the process of 'fostering' a passion takes trial and error. It takes experience; you cannot do it all in your head. And it takes a long time.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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With the rapid growth of Internet users in China bringing online video into a new paradigm, the market scale we first envisioned as an online video website back in 2006 has grown significantly.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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I think that we, as a civilization, need to sit down and figure out how to solve political problems over a table, not over a battlefield.
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Wickets are like wives. You never know what to expect from them.
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The final phone call that said we're going to be picked up again was just a miracle. We've overcome the impossible and we're still pushing forward. I know John is smiling and so happy that he gets to watch us on TV.
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I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.
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Honestly, all the sweets and bad stuff on set don't really call to me because I'm working so much. I've trained myself to stay away from sugar.
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I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.
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Stages are getting higher and higher, and I'm getting older and older.
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I knew I would get offers to play the villain after 'Kick,' and I had already decided to reject all of them.
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First and foremost, I feel very lucky to have the family I have, so I would like my family to stay happy and healthy.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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Every 20 minutes you've got to have a bump, you've got to have a change in course, you've got to unsettle the audience. It can't be too predictable so something has to happen. I think that was something that Hitchcock did very well too. You couldn't let an audience feel too settled in.
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The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.
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I would love to grab roles like the ones my mom did in 'Oppol' or the role Kangana Ranaut played in 'Queen.'
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Your self-confidence is directly connected to how much you feel you are making a difference in the world.
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I felt like God was giving me a chance to assist in a miracle. There is something so relieving about life taking over you like that. You're playing a part in a much bigger show. And that's what life is. It's the greatest show on earth.
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I'd begun reading Crumb shortly before that, and other underground stuff, so that was an influence to some degree. Of course the Marvel and DC comics, they had been my main interests in my teenage years.
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By the fall of 2007, my last remaining Iraqi friend in Baghdad had left. Once he was gone, my connection to the country and the war began to thin, even as the terror diminished. I missed the improvement that came with the surge, and so, in my nervous system, I never quite registered it.
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It is important to realize that the process of 'fostering' a passion takes trial and error. It takes experience; you cannot do it all in your head. And it takes a long time.
