Keren Woodward Quotes
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I'm, I guess you could say, the Chinese-speaking, banjo-picking girl.
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Catalan citizens are peaceful, European, and open-minded. We want to contribute to better international and European governance.
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I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.
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Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.
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All you need is a bad angle and suddenly you're 30 pounds overweight.
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An artist's sphere of influence is the world.
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As a brother and sister, our tastes were pretty different growing up. He liked a lot of early hip hop. My dad didn't understand it and would try to talk him out of it.
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If I lose, I lose. I'll do it on my terms.
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I have no interest in becoming a tax exile and living somewhere I don't want to - I just want to be at home with my family.
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Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors.
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Reinforcement is being right.
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Not much is done to promote non-cricket sports in India. There is a lot of talk about how sports needs to reach the grassroots and how it should be introduced as a subject in school, but nothing has been done to that effect.
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I'm a geek through and through. My last job at Microsoft was leading much of the search engine relevance work on Bing. There we got to play with huge amounts of data, with neural networks and other AI techniques, with massive server farms.
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I want to challenge the best, and I'm ready.
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There is a lot of territory out there still to explore TV-wise, show-wise, movie-wise, everything.
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I like to play with tropes.
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There are so many cute vintage dresses made out of synthetics from the '60s and '70s - but they're so itchy and hot. It's not worth it!
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In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them.
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Artists should agitate and democratize their own work, but they should also work to democratize the arts themselves.
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By remaining constrained in one's environment or country or family, one has little chance of being other than the original prescription. By leaving, one gains a perspective, a distance of both space and time, which is essential for writing about family or home, in any case.
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Los Angeles is the nation's cultural scapegoat.
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Everything in Athens is probably a good example. Any time when there really isn't a need for these facilities in these cities, but they get built anyway for the games, everybody has kind of wishful thinking about what the afterlife of these spaces is going to be. If there is not demand for it before the Olympics, there's probably not going to be demand for it afterwards.
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In editing, it's amazing how you choose the in and out points. What you cut on is everything for creating tension. It's amazing how expanding a shot by five seconds can just ruin the tension.
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The perfect pop song is about creating a memory.
