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Angela Duckworth Quotes

When people tell me I can't do something, I have a visceral reflex to say, 'Yes, I can.'

Angela Duckworth

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: psychologist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1970

Topics

People Me I Can Say Yes Tell

Every film can be fun, even if it's a terror.

Steve Guttenberg

Fun Film Even Every Terror

I told you, the dopes are gonna inherit the earth anyway.

You Earth Inherit Anyway Gonna

I was pretty hot-tempered all through school. I remember my high school basketball coach telling me: 'Boy, if you don't learn to control that temper, you're gonna kill somebody.'

School Me Control Basketball Learn

The original and very basic 'Law & Order' series has always seemed to me to be 100-percent exposition, with no filler, no pesky nuances and almost no background about the series' continuing characters - just the hard nuts and bolts of pure storytelling.

Me Law Storytelling Hard Nuts Pure

I have a rubbery face.

Roger Lloyd-Pack

There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star.

World Career Star Film Occupation

It's not like I'm dying to do work that's taken seriously, and I'm not looking to become a thespian. It's not what I'm looking for; I'm just looking to do quality work.

Work Quality Looking Seriously Dying

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Alfred North Whitehead

Art Experience Aesthetic Recognition

I believe that I am a hat designer, not a milliner.

I Am Hat Believe I Believe Designer

In outward show so splendid and so vain; 'tis but a gilded block without a brain.

Brain Without Show Vain Gilded Tis

I was this role model for heavy people. But the thing is, I never set out to be a role model at all, and I don't set out to be one now. I won't preach to anyone and tell them how to lose weight. I don't know any better than the next person.

People Better Lose Role Model Person

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.

Question Affirmation Must Understood

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