One Thing Quotes - Page 25

• If there is one thing I am, it's always right.

  Ted Nugent

  Ifs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For me, the moment the mic is on and it's rolling, it's impossible to vocally relax for some reason. But one day, I'm going to be able to sing the way I sang when I was a little kid, completely open and free. That's, I think, the one thing that's changed: Growing older, I'm not ashamed to hear my voice.

  Cat Power

  Kids, Thinking, Voice

  "Cat Power: 'I'm Not Ashamed To Hear My Voice'". Interview with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. August 31, 2012.

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• I guess people recognize me, but I'm not a household name. Two out of every five people who come up to me know my name. The one thing I don't want is to be followed by paparazzi.

  Michael Pena

  Names, Two, People

  "Michael Pena's adjusting to the view from up there". Interview with Luis Gomez, www.chicagotribune.com. September 21, 2012.

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• Publishers have realized that, unlike the previous time period, American teenagers are both smarter and require more topical material than they had been giving them before that. For one thing, they'll read thicker books. Besides, has anybody looked at the news or read the newspapers recently?

  Tamora Pierce

  Teenager, Book, Giving

  "Interview | YA authors Ally Condie and Tamora Pierce". Interview with Amy L. Hayden, www.timeout.com. November 7, 2011.

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• One thing that I do find really sexy is a girl who's good at crossword puzzles.

  Chris Pine

  Girl, Sexy, Crosswords

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• We all have so many different elements inside of us and we're not all one thing.

  Jeremy Piven

  Different, Elements

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• That's the way it is with entrepreneurial people. You try one thing, it doesn't work, you try another.

  Pete du Pont

  People, Trying, Way

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• One thing any backpacker will tell you is that it's tedious and monotonous. You're bored sometimes, so you really have to make the fun in your head.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Fun, Bored, Sometimes

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• I don't have a lot of skills, but one thing I can do is, I can compartmentalize. I can make that a little world that I can go back to, so I can be a waitress, or I can be a teacher, and then go and work on my book.

  Dana Spiotta

  Teacher, Book, Skills

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• It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.

  Dan Simmons

  Writing, Relax, Exhausted

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• There is such a suspicion in today's world of people who do more than one thing, who aren't specialized.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  People, World, Today

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• It's sort of the mixed blessing of being on television for so long in one thing; sometimes that backfires, in that you're not able to continue on.

  Katey Sagal

  Blessing, Long, Television

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. September 15, 2010.

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• Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time.

  Julian Barnes

  Writing, Literature, Realizing

  Julian Barnes (1984). “Flaubert's parrot”, Vintage

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• My family never told me like you have to be one thing. What do you want to be when you grow up? They think it's the most ridiculous question. You can be many, many things.

  Hannah Simone

  Growing Up, Thinking, Want

  "Esquire Presents Me in My Place with Hannah Simone". www.esquire.com. April 23, 2012.

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• One thing that served me well with clients was that you back your winners and you back your losers.

  Rick Santelli

  Clients, Loser, Winner

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• It used to be that you kind of got pigeonholed into one thing - you're either a stage actor or a TV actor or a movie actor. Today, there's a lot of crossover with film actors doing television, which never happened before, so those lines are a little bit more blurred than they used to be.

  Aaron Tveit

  Stage Actors, Television, Lines

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• Typecasting is an interesting thing because, in a way, if you're good at something, you're going to work at that thing. In other ways, you constantly have to change people's opinion of you as one thing, especially if you want to play different roles. You have to shatter that image sometimes.

  Aaron Tveit

  Play, People, Interesting

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• In an age where everything and everyone is linked through networks of glass and air, no one - no business, organization, government agency, country - is an island. We need to do right by all our stakeholders, and that's how you create value for shareholders. And one thing is for sure - no organization can succeed in a world that is failing.

  Don Tapscott

  Country, Organization, Islands

  "The Seven Imperatives for Highly Successful Business Revolutionaries" by Don Tapscott, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2012.

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• One thing the futurists never get right, though, is that the extreme desire for polyester only lasted a brief period in the '70s!

  Lea Thompson

  Desire, Periods, Extremes

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• I got to draw monsters, robots and write funny stories. I loved doing that stuff and working with the actors. But it got to be less and less that stuff and more about trying to be everywhere and not being able to do one thing very enjoyably.

  Jhonen Vasquez

  Writing, Trying, Monsters

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• I have made so many mistakes as a mother. But the one thing that I know I do is I make sure my children know how much I love them and they are absolutely secure in that.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Mother, Children, Mistake

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• For me, one thing I love is having an arc for a character. I love being able to see a character go through something and to learn.

  Mae Whitman

  Character, Love Is, Things I Love

  "Mae Whitman,'The Perks Of Being A Wallflower' Star, On Being Cast In 'Arrested Development'" by Christopher Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 21, 2012.

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• Music's the one thing I try not to analyze. I don't want to destroy the magic that has always been there for me.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Magic, Trying, Want

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• You know a Senate race is obviously a much smaller deal than a presidential race. What I think makes a very hard job considerably easier when you're going to debate is if you have reminded yourself - or somebody has reminded you during the course of your campaign - that consistency is enormously important. That people don't want to hear you say one thing in one part of the state and another thing in another part of the state.

  Michael Bennet

  Jobs, Thinking, Race

  "Transcript: Face to Face with Sen. Bennet". Interview with John Dickerson, www.cbsnews.com. October 3, 2012.

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• If there is one thing I long for above all else, it's that the years to come may see Christianity in this country able again to capture the imagination of our culture.

  Rowan Williams

  Country, Art, Years

  "I don't come to it with a fixed agenda" by Rowan Williams, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2002.

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