Adora Svitak Quotes
As children, we have a tenuous idea of love; we often try to quantify it with how much we feel seen and heard.
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.
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TV presenting isn't the hardest job in the world, and I've done all right financially out of it.
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At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
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Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.
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When I was pregnant, I had the romantic idea that after the baby was born I would not only take up reading in earnest again, but also write a novel while my daughter slept in her Moses basket. Of course, I barely had time to keep up with my magazines until she started sleeping properly.
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Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
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Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyone's individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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Iggy Pop is God, if God looked half that good with his shirt off.
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You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
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A high-quality public education can build much-needed skills and knowledge. It can help children reach their God-given potential. It can stabilize communities and democracies. It can strengthen economies. It can combat the kind of fear and despair that evolves into hatred.
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I caught up on a lot of just domestic normal everyday stuff, and grew up a lot, and went to therapy, and did a lot of contemplating and figuring things out. I needed to just strip everything away and figure out who I am and get to know myself, as cheesy as that sounds.
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Being a display pilot is probably the thing I've been most proud of in my life. Don't really fly anymore now though. I have three small children and as most of my friends were killed in different accidents, I realised that it was probably just a matter of time before I went that way.
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People lived in the same apartments for years. You'd meet a group of kids in kindergarten, and you'd still be with them in high school. No one ever left the neighborhood.
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It's really hard not to fall into that trap of insecurity when you're a model. Beforehand, I never looked at myself in a huge monitor with 30 people around it every day.
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I've met actors where you think, if only you could just clean up your act and get it together, people would want to work with you. Some people are so difficult, it's just not worth working with them.
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When the movie starts playing on TV and DVD, that's when you really see what the movie is.
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To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can't explain why it happened. Something has to happen that you can't coach.
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Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes!
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
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I like Comic-Con. It's always nice to talk to people who are fans of 'Children's Hospital.'
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As children, we have a tenuous idea of love; we often try to quantify it with how much we feel seen and heard.
