Laura Osnes Quotes
I'm doing what I wanted to do since I was a young girl. I pinch myself every day to make sure it's true.
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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For a long time, I've been interested in cultural memory and historical erasure.
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It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.
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I've really enjoyed starting Quora from the beginning. It's really nice to have a new start to things.
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I wanted to study to be a dental hygienist, marry a rich dentist, and hang it up.
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I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
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Ending Iran's nuclear threat and bringing it into the international community of law-abiding nations is one of the most pressing U.S. foreign policy objectives.
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Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.
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It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
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I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.
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'Wet Hot American Summer' was sort of lowbrow genius, you know? But smart in its cultish silliness. It wasn't considered something of great cultural caliber. But like many cult pieces, it sort of became something culturally relevant, which I think is what's so wonderful about it.
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The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.
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I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It's more fun to come to Paris.
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When humans become gods, when our wings grow so great as to beat about the very edges of the earth, no one can answer but us.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.
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When you're fighting with a stunt person, your intent is to miss.
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Laquan McDonald is a wake-up call to all of us. It's a reminder there's a lot broken.
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People try to change too much at once and it becomes overwhelming, and they end up falling off the program. So gradually changing bad habits makes much more of a difference than trying to change them all at once.
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I'm very lucky to have a husband who cooks, for a start. It's a good partnership. I met him through a friend, and we just hit it off.
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You can't hold someone accountable for results if you supervise their methods.
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I think that I could be an example to young people, and they know that dreams come true.
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Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while I'm walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close to perfection as it gets.
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I'm doing what I wanted to do since I was a young girl. I pinch myself every day to make sure it's true.
