Angela Duckworth Quotes
I would be surprised if my girls ended up as women without grit. I really would.
Angela Duckworth
Quotes to Explore
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I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon them as reason and principle shall dictate.
Caleb Cushing
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In reality, throughout your career, you have to make yourself interesting enough for people to be waiting to see your films. In my case, people are longing to see what I come out with next. That's my success.
Rani Mukerji
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I think I need security.
Zoe Sugg
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
Sally Mann
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Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
Dana Brunetti
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Beautiful updos with natural hair are great!
Zendaya
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Acting offers me an outlet. Here is the perfect opportunity to spend fleeting moments becoming an entirely different person; to experience a character entirely unlike myself, but to also make such a character a part of me. There is no routine here; there is no boredom.
Osric Chau
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
Irving Layton
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
Ed Asner
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
Zadie Smith
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Growing up, my mother was a very strong woman who was not very big, about 5'1'', but boy, you grabbed a tiger by the tail if you messed with her. I know grown men that messed with her, and through her wit and intelligence and her no-quit, she never lost a fight. That's very influential on me when I'm telling stories. I love exploring that.
Taylor Sheridan
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There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.
Orlando Brown
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People like to hear me say, 'You love me, Chandler Bing. You just don't know you love me.'
Maggie Wheeler
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I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
Mal Peet
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I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.
J. G. Ballard
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I like part-time jobs in restaurants.
Tao Lin
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Usually, I just don't care what I look like. If it's cold, I'm, like, putting on whatever I have to to be warm.
Zendaya
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Facebook is made up of people you've met, but not necessarily who are similar to you. I have 850 'friends,' and a lot are acquaintances, not friends. I don't really know them. If I've met someone one time, how should they be influencing my feed?
Garrett Camp
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I remember returning to Bangalore after a few months of travel and seeing it as a first-world city, like New York or San Francisco. This may be obvious to some people, but I grew up in Delhi, and I had no experience of how someone from a 'Tier 2' city may view a 'Tier 1' city. You really do emigrate between worlds when you come from those towns.
Karan Mahajan
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The blockchain industry generally agrees that some kind of a national license or charter is the best way to go, similar to the United Kingdom, where there is only one central regulator.
Perianne Boring
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If we had to pose for every single person at the Eat & Greets, we wouldn't get to speak to anyone that's there, and we definitely wouldn't get to serve them food.
Zac Brown Band
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I like to make people laugh. That's for sure. And I really like to humiliate myself and go very far in derision and stuff. But no, I like everything. I started a little bit of doing drama, too. I like that, too. I guess I just want to touch everything.
Charlotte Le Bon
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You will pass through storms and heavy rains, and at times you will suffer defeat. The essence of the creative life, however, is not to give up in the face of defeat but to follow the rainbow that exists within your heart.
Daisaku Ikeda
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I would be surprised if my girls ended up as women without grit. I really would.
Angela Duckworth
