Burgess Owens Quotes

You learn after losing quite a bit, year after year, that you have to continue to work hard, stay tough, and endure to the end before it's going to work out.

Burgess Owens

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WorkLosingWork HardToughEndYou

I always just wanted to be a writer, not necessarily a particular kind of writer.

Jill Lepore

KindAlwaysJustWriterWanted

I worked with several writers at the University of Michigan: Nicholas Delbanco, Peter Ho Davies, Eileen Pollack, Laura Kasischke, and Thomas Lynch, who told me the same thing over and over again: Persist. Read, write, and improve: tell your stories.

Jesmyn Ward

MeWriteOverUniversityImprove

I think, now that I am a mother, I look at other mums like Jo Pavey and just mums that go back to work and work incredibly hard, and I have so much admiration and appreciation for how hard it is.

Jessica Ennis-Hill

WorkMotherI AmAppreciationThink

I happen to go for the simplest, most ordinary things. The extraordinary doesn't interest me. I'm not interested in psychotics. I'm interested in the person you don't expect to have a story. I like Everyman.

John Hughes

MeStoryYouPersonGoHappen

I got into hip-hop, but I still had appreciation for all types of music, so I was trained to have an open mind and to always go with the flow.

Robert Glasper

MusicAppreciationMindGoHip-Hop

If you look at my body of work, my characters drastically vary, and so I typically don't play the same role. It makes me feel reborn with each role.

Toni Trucks

WorkMeFeelYouBodyLook

Incredibly, whenever I have proposed the theory that half of government workers could be cut, current and former federal employees I know have all agreed.

Ronald Kessler

GovernmentEmployeesKnowWorkers

Rock 'n' roll was two pegs below being a prisoner of war back then.

Ronnie Hawkins

WarBackRockTwoBeingRoll

We have a lot to gain through furthering stem cell research, but medical breakthroughs should be fundamentally about saving, not destroying, human life. Therefore, I support stem cell research that does not destroy the embryo.

Michael Steele

LifeMedicalSupportResearchHuman

Everything I've done has had purpose and has been passionate and has been executed in the best way that I knew how. Maybe that's not the perfect way. Maybe that's not the easiest way. But it's the best way I knew how to do it.

Julia Roberts

BestPurposePerfectDoneWayBeen

This is the most joyful day that ever I saw in my pilgrimage on earth.

Donald Cargill

DayEarthJoyfulPilgrimageSaw

I'm the kind of person that needs to think things through. But when I know what I want to do, I really know.

Chris Hughes

ThinkPersonKnowWantKindThrough

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