Zooey Deschanel Quotes

I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me.

Zooey Deschanel

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I've always said that you're obviously doing something right if you have got pressure on you.

Jessica Ennis-Hill

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When I started my last business, I didn't receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can't handle that pressure.

Robert Kiyosaki

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When I was a playwright earlier in my career - my senior project in high school was my first produced play - I used to put on the title page: 'A tragedy with laughs.'

Jeff Lindsay

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After I lost my legs, I got invited to my old high school, and I shared my stories with all the classes. I remember I was so nervous and didn't know where to start, but I knew I had information they could take away.

Amy Purdy

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My Ph.D. is in operations research. I was interested in making things work better and using mathematics to help do that. So operations research is what I studied as an undergraduate and graduate student.

Alvin E. Roth

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We need more male black teachers, tempting them with extra cash if necessary.

Trevor Phillips

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We have people say, 'There's not enough women writers.' I have a writers room that is almost nothing but women over at 'Grey's Anatomy.'

Shonda Rhimes

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I don't even like football.

Tom Hooper

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I never was the story. The story was the story. Period.

Mike Wallace

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Bernard Herrmann was a genius, a great, great composer.

Michel Hazanavicius

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I was 30 when 9/11 happened and I had lived exactly 15 years of life in America, so I was half American. I was a full-fledged New Yorker.

Mohsin Hamid

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I wanted to be Anthony Hopkins and ended up being neither a film star nor having a career on the stage.

Dirk Benedict

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