Katarina Witt Quotes
Skating taught me to set a goal and to block out other things and just focus on this one thing.
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I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'
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The battle in American politics used to be for the middle. Now, it's all about the building and the intensity of support on the far left and far right wings of both parties. And we have forgotten about the people here in the middle.
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To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
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I just like to stay a little quiet and just do my own thing. If I win a little more, I think I'll get a little bit more attention.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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NRDC has helped bring hope spots to more of our shared ocean waters. We helped draft and pass a California law creating a network of underwater parks stretching from the Oregon border to the Mexican border.
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I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
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One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.
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I don't eat red meat.
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A good actor always sets you straight. If you've written a false moment and thought it was probably pretty great, the actor's gonna show you when he gets to that moment. They're the great test of the validity of the material.
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Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.
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I think she has more gospel style than I do. I think I'm more, umm, you know mainstream I guess. I don't know if we split the vote. That could be possible but I don't think we are the same at all.
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I try to stay focused.
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When I was a kid, I was super shy.
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I always try to keep one very feminine quality to my style.
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The most important thing for me is to walk the little alleys of the city, to find the little alcove where someone is cooking something, and just watch them do it. That's my idea of fun.
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If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
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There's no question in my mind of the value in technology in fueling young minds. Like any other tool, if you simply throw it in the classroom and don't consider how best to take advantage of that tool, and you try the old ways with a new piece of technology on the desk, it's no panacea.
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Science is a quest for understanding.
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I thought I'd write one book and the world would change overnight.
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You, oh mature ones, keep company solely with other mature ones, and your maturity is so mature that it can only chum up with maturity!
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I use music to focus, like an internal motor.
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Skating taught me to set a goal and to block out other things and just focus on this one thing.
