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Tammy Duckworth Quotes

I said three things when I woke up in Walter Reed. 'I love you.' 'Put me to work,' and 'You stink! Go shower!'

Tammy Duckworth

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Work Love I Love You Me You Three

I like to take credit for the work that I have done.

Work Credit Done Take Like

Like any other actor, my agent called me with an opportunity. It just so happens that the opportunity was the lead in 'Star Wars.'

Opportunity Me Actor Lead Star Just

It's hard to brief in the Oval. You know, you can't - no visual aids, hard to roll out something in front of somebody.

You Know Hard Out Something Roll

One of the things that I've been trying to do with my characters, one of the things that does lead to me turning things down, is I don't really want to repeat myself.

Myself Me Trying Down Want Lead

'Supafunkrock' is a musical gumbo. We throw all those musical influences into the pot and put it out there.

Trombone Shorty

Out Influences Throw Pot Those Put

I was watching the Nina Simone documentary alone in my room, and I said out loud to myself, 'Why do we not know that this woman is beauty? She is beauty! Why did no one tell me this growing up? Why was her name not next to 'beauty' in the dictionary?'

Tracee Ellis Ross

Beauty Alone Myself Woman Growing Up

I think that even at my most anxious, if I have a job to do or a role to fill, I know on some level I can step up and complete it. I mean, I'm probably not going to go bungee jumping anytime soon... but pushing myself to weather some discomfort now and then feels healthy.

Myself Job Step Weather Think I Can

But when I went on the stage to do a show, I would put on makeup because I felt that it enhanced my act; it drew attention to what I was doing.

Makeup Doing Attention Stage Act

It would be great if politics were fact-based, but it is not, and it is surely not nuance-based. What works in a classroom or a think tank does not work on Capitol Hill or in the White House. Obama sometimes seems to be running the Brookings Institution, not the country.

Work Great Politics Think House

I don't mind doing two or three Eagles songs and playing the drums. I'm not one of those artists who's going to sit here and deny the past.

Past Mind Doing Three Two Eagles

Fashion can be this mysterious thing that you can't explain.

Diane von Furstenberg

Fashion You Mysterious Explain Thing

Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher?

Music Long Write She Two Poem

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