#shifted

Having a child makes you strong and gives you chutzpah. It relaxed my attitude to the job; my center of focus shifted, which I think is very helpful, because even if you're not a very indulgent actor you spend a lot of time thinking about yourself. I don't think that is particularly healthy. ↗

— Imelda Staunton

#actor #attitude #because #center #child

If the blame (if there is any) can be shifted from him to me, I shall help him and our cause by taking it. I desire, therefore, that all the responsibility that can be put upon me shall go there and shall remain there. ↗

— James Longstreet

#blame #cause #desire #go #help

Becoming a mother was the single defining event of my life. It felt like the whole world shifted. ↗

— Debra Messing

#defining #event #felt #life #like

I never understand why people have children and then insist on living as though nothing has shifted. ↗

— Christy Turlington

#i #insist #living #never #nothing

With the rise of America, the global balance of power shifted away from the old European powers. ↗

— Armstrong Williams

#away #balance #balance of power #european #european powers

With the emergence of civilization, the rate of change shifted from hundreds of thousands of years to millennia. With the emergence of science as a way of knowing the universe, the rate of change shifted to centuries. ↗

— William Irwin Thompson

#change #civilization #emergence #hundreds #knowing

The main American naval forces were shifted to the Pacific region and an American admiral made a strong declaration to the effect that if war were to break out between Japan and the United States, the Japanese navy could be sunk in a matter of weeks. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#american #between #break #could #declaration

It shifted attention away from that and I've never been someone who liked the attention from the media anyway. ↗

— Steffi Graf

#attention #away #been #i #liked

The plate tectonics of media have shifted where NBC had to become a new media company from an old media company. ↗

— Carson Daly

#company #had #media #nbc #new

Celebrity is hawking make-up, cars, everything; it's shifted. ↗

— Janice Dickinson

#celebrity #everything #hawking #make-up #shifted