Angela Duckworth Quotes
I define talent as the rate at which you get better at something when you try. To be very talented means you get better faster and more easily than other people or other things that you try.
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The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.
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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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I don't know if I would say that I'm specifically a history buff. I do find a lot of things fascinating, especially anything that's bizarre or mysterious and unknown and we don't have all the answers for.
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It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.
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There is a strong sentiment within the Tea Party that favors a stronger America on the global stage, and with that comes a strong alliance with the State of Israel.
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I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.
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In India, by and large, women are not educated enough to be bread winners and, within the moorings of traditional cultures, do not have the courage and the capacity to leave the matrimonial home. Given the inequality prevalent in family structures, the woman's right to opt out is suicidal.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
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I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.
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The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.
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For my life, I need to make my own choices.
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We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.
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The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion.
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I can be a lady - surprise!
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We can't want an education for kids more than they want it for themselves.
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There is little sense in attempting to change external conditions, you must first change inner beliefs, then outer conditions will change accordingly.
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It's mainly about working hard and proving to people you're serious about it, and stretching yourself and learning. The mistake a lot of actors make, particularly young ones, is allowing themselves to feel that they're the finished articles, the bee's knees, and it's not true.
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I define talent as the rate at which you get better at something when you try. To be very talented means you get better faster and more easily than other people or other things that you try.
