Kirsty Coventry Quotes
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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The other actresses, who are called my contemporaries, they started with a megastar. They were superstars overnight and are the same even today.
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting projects.
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To understand the hidden secret of the modern industrial world in which I find myself, I have to return to another world. That world is at once wartime Nice and the plantation - the sugar isles on which Europe's prosperity was built.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
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It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
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I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
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There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
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No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.
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You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.
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'Mrs. Doubtfire' is still a fun movie, and it's still fun to watch, but it is hard to watch myself sometimes. I get very critical. And people will say, 'Mara, you were five.' And I'm like, 'Yeah, but I still should have known better!' I'm a lifelong perfectionist, what can I say?
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I've never been against women. That anti-feminist rap is bogus. I think men should be nice to women, buy them diamonds.
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My very first job was a cashier at Burger King in Tucson, Arizona. And I occasionally worked the drive-thru. I'd go wherever I was needed! My second job was at Dairy Queen. I stayed in the fast food royalty.
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Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.
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You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough.
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The NSA's business is 'information dominance,' the use of other people's secrets to shape events.
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Success can allow you to try for greatness, can give you an opportunity to take a chance on something. I'm very blessed to have the success that I've had, and that's given me so many opportunities to work on being great.
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My father works for Xerox and fixes those gigantic copy machines that are about 10 feet wide.
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People have said I belong in a rubber room because I look for wrecks, and when I find them, I just do a survey. I don't look for treasure or artifacts.
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I gravitate toward contemporary art. I love great paintings, sculpture, photography, some video art.
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In order to survive, we cling to all we know and understand. And label it reality. But knowledge and understanding are ambiguous. That reality could be an illusion. All humans live with the wrong assumptions. Isn't that another way of looking at it? That sharingan how much can you really se?
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People have to remain positive and believe in those dreams. It's really important.
