Phillipa Soo Quotes

I find it's nice when I can be a listener and absorb things coming at me. It's important, especially for me, when so much of my job is about putting things out into the world. So those quiet moments are rejuvenating.

Phillipa Soo

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When I was a player and hit into a double play, I felt as if I was letting everyone down.

Joe Torre

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I think my parents were surprisingly cool with me entering the arts. Although, I think they thought it was going to be a phase, and they didn't expect me to actually stick with it, and rightfully so. They were concerned whether I could afford groceries, being an actor.

John Cho

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To be successful in anything, you have to have a passion for it, and that leads to being enthusiastic and demanding. I didn't have it for history. So I wouldn't have been a good teacher in that area. But I had it for basketball. And that's what coaching is at every level: it's about teaching.

Jeff Van Gundy

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Usually when reporting on powerful public figures, the press advisor and I would have had a conversation that established what journalists call 'ground rules,' placing restrictions on what can and cannot be reported.

Michael Hastings

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You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.

John Wooden

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The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.

Torquato Tasso

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I'm shorter, I don't have as many freckles as Ron, and I can't do magic.

Rupert Grint

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It's so hard for me to let go of 'The Normal Heart.'

Matt Bomer

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Because civilizations are finite, in the life of each of them there comes a moment when the center ceases to hold. What keeps them at such times from disintegration is not legions but language.

Joseph Brodsky

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To seek the timeless way we must first know the quality without a name. There is a central quality which is the root criterion of life and spirit in a man, a town, a building, or a wilderness. This quality is objective and precise, but it cannot be named.

Christopher Alexander

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Every day is a new sense of tearing my heart out of my body again when I see other children who have been killed, and I know what their families are going through.

Cindy Sheehan

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I was very priggish as a child. I saved up for a book on medieval English nunneries, for which I was despised by my friends.

Claire Tomalin

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