Angela Duckworth Quotes

I know that instructional time is a zero-sum game, but if we want kids to do well academically, it's hard to imagine that happening if they don't have some control over their attention.

Angela Duckworth

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One of my best friends had a tough time getting pregnant, and her situation had me really thinking about freezing my eggs.

Joanna Krupa

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When young writers approach me for advice, I remind them, as gently as I can, that they are on their own, with no help available anywhere. Which is how it should be.

John Banville

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A woman tells her doctor, 'I've got a bad back.' The doctor says, 'It's old age.' The woman says, 'I want a second opinion.' The doctor says: 'Okay - you're ugly as well.'

Tommy Cooper

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I started standup at age nineteen. I decided that the only way I was going to try show business as a career was if I could make total strangers laugh.

Jay Chandrasekhar

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I don't like rides. I take everything in life quite literally, and so I genuinely feel terrified on rides and liable to vomit at any moment, and I hate to vomit even more than I fear rides.

Jonathan Ames

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There are online forms you can fill out to send to your lawmakers, demanding that nothing - nothing at all or in any way - be done about any guns whatever, anywhere.

Dick Cavett

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I'm from a very, very rural place. There's really nobody out there, just roads and farms.

Diego Klattenhoff

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The greatest glory never comes from falling, but from rising each time you fall.

Clay Aiken

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There's a whole generation out there who don't know that I was a pop singer in the early days.

Cilla Black

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Writers are a superstitious cowardly lot, and we loathe learning new computer applications to do something that, let's be honest, we could accomplish equally well with pen and paper - especially when that application is as unconventional as Scrivener.

Antony Johnston

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The United States is the richest and also the most unequal country in the world.

Alissa Quart

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What would have become of me if no one had wanted to read my books? And don't forget all those who have written of me.

Selma Lagerlof

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