Audra McDonald Quotes

I think they're an incredible honor. I'm grateful and flattered by them. But I have no control over winning awards - I have no control over any of that.

Audra McDonald

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More often than not, my reference point is not the kids or the grandkids but myself when I was that age. I remember the days at Hartranft Elementary and Stewart Junior High in Norristown.

Jerry Spinelli

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I love where I'm from. I love the landscape because it is so beautiful, and I also love the people of my community, the people whose stories I'm trying to tell.

Jesmyn Ward

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I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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'Crashing' was my first scripted TV gig.

Jermaine Fowler

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As motherhood is the greatest and most natural God-given gift for women for posterity, it would seem that the birth and rearing of children, in the way which to us seems most ideal, would be the most satisfying and the most rewarding career for a woman.

Rose Kennedy

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I need to get better as a player, I need to get fitter, and I need to get better on the mental side. It's exciting for me, because there's so much I could do better. I don't feel like I've really maxed out any shot. People talk about my serve, but I think that can even get better.

Milos Raonic

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I actually went to circus school as a child. I think my specialty was walking on the big ball. You know the big ball you can walk on? Yes, I was quite good at it.

Lotte Verbeek

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No reporter is flying around in borrowed twin-engine airplanes.

Dee Dee Myers

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If a door is shut, go up and wiggle it a little - don't assume it's locked.

Bob Goff

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I credit my singing to my mom because she didn't give me a binky when I was a baby. I cried and screamed for the first six months - my mom would say four years of my life - and I developed wonderful lungs.

Auli'i Cravalho

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I used to have this joke: 'Every hallway is a runway.'

Tyra Banks

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Ike's problem was that he was a musician that always wanted to be a star; and was a star, locally, but never internationally... so he then changed the name to Ike and changed my name to Tina because if I ran away, Tina was his name. It was patented as you call it.

Tina Turner

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