- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Able Quotes
On capability, readiness and what makes action possible.
These quotes touch on being able to act: governments expected to give straight answers, leaders imagined thinking more imaginatively, and allies working to restore the unity needed to act together. For more, see our Being quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I wasn't going to be able to dance professionally, I wasn't going to dance. That's my all-or nothing personality coming out.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always been more of a joyous person than a sad person. But I was fortunate to have a mom and dad where my mom could look at my face and know what was going on and was able to get me to talk and draw it out. As a result, I didn't have to hide an emotion. I didn't have to worry about her telling me, 'That's silly.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I once prayed when struggling financially and worried how I was going to be able to assist my parents in their latter years living thousands of miles away, to help me win the lottery or something. And I did win the lottery, just in a different and better way.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Luxury is research in quality. It's quality with no compromise. What does that mean? That you don't think about how much something will cost to be able to achieve the very, very best.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think if you've got people on your side, if you've got people really laughing, you are able to make them cry.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I love about being an actress is being able to really look into myself and understand another human being.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Success for me means being able to work. I don't look at so much at what I've done as much as I look to what I will do.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
The power of a close-up can be extraordinary, but you have to have actors who are able to reveal themselves.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's something about doing Shakespeare with a single gender, whether it is all-male or all-female, that opens up certain possibilities. You are able to throw the behavior of the men into a particular relief and be playful within a slightly larger-than-life way with it.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most Australians live in the cities on the east coast, where contact between black and white occurred as much as 200 years earlier than on the west coast - and where 95 percent of Australians are able to live 95 percent of their lives without ever seeing an Aboriginal face.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.
- Chanting
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's wonderful being out on that pitch, being able to play there, with the fans supporting us. It's hard to describe, to be honest, when the team is playing well, when the supporters are chanting and singing their songs, when they are really behind the team.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I come onto the pitch, that's when I'm able to get into that zone and forget about everything else other than just doing my job. But even then, it's not a job. It's playing football, and that's something I love.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
My focus in the training sessions is always about movement to create openings and opportunities. When you don't have the ball, you still need the discipline to know where you should be, who you should be marking, but when we have the ball, it is important to be able to move around.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
The student develops an analytical as well as finely blended character. He is able to choose from a wide variety of job fields from which to embrace a career, without having to be a specialist in one particular discipline.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020