Kristi Yamaguchi Quotes
Winning in women's singles felt surreal. I felt that everything I had done - the hard work, the tough times - was all worth it.
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In Holy Cross, I came to like school, to like studying in a way I had never done before.
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It's a lot of work and I also feel like I've done it. I miss comedy. And I also think that, from purely a logistical standpoint, that the day-to-day schedule on a comedy allows you to have a life, much more of a life, than on a drama.
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If you're passionate about your work, it makes the people around you want to be involved too.
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Glory is attained from hard work, step by step.
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Thankfully I'm not endlessly ambitious, but I have done some crazy ambitious things like buying an island off the west coast of Scotland in the late Sixties.
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There are so many young women coming up through the ranks. Adele is an amazing singer. Beyonce has great stage presence. She's just a beautiful woman. I love how everyone has just taken charge of their lives and careers.
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These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in a thousand of these slaves has done any thing to forfeit his own liberty.
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The reason why I'm a conservative is because conservative policies work and they improve opportunities. They are the avenue for climbing the economic dream.
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I'm quite adept at writing two or sometimes even three stories at once. So if I get stuck on one story, I switch the next and let my subconscious work on unraveling any plot problems from another story.
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My mother raised us to think that if we worked hard, and if we put our end of the bargain in, it would work out OK for us.
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I owe my career to Latina women. I was surrounded by the amazing group: my mother, my aunts, my extended family. They didn't necessarily have access to high fashion, but they had great style and looked stunning naturally at every age.
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I'm one of the lucky few who never had to face the whole 'Oh, you've had a baby, and now work will have to suffer' bit. It just wasn't a big deal when I got married and had a baby.
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The President has a wonderful sense of humor, which is one of the reasons it is so much fun to work for him.
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I am proud of having done what I've done. Very proud.
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The great thing I think when you do independents is that people are really there for the same reason. They're not there because they got a lot of money and they want to just go home and get it over with. They're there because they believe in the script or the director or the cast or whatever it is, and they want to make it work.
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It takes a lot of energy to work, in general, especially if you're the lead in something.
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When you wait to the last minute, you rush to get things done, and the closer you get to the deadline, the less options you have.
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As long as the cheques carry on coming in, and I'm enjoying my work, I shall continue acting.
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If you want your kid in the business, ask them if that's what they want. Don't be weird about it. There's a lot of pressure out there. Your child may fail. A lot of it has to do with chance, and it may not work out the way you or your child expects. You have to understand that ahead of time.
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I have decided to leave Facebook and Oculus to work on curing diseases using some new imaging technologies I've been incubating for awhile.
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I think the whole of people's psychology and where they are in life interests me, and the decisions you make that take you on particular journeys to different places.
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I've personally demanded that tyrants let their people go. I've tried to feed the hungry, clothe the poor, protect the elderly and infirm, and defend the needy from the aggressively greedy. I've led a blessed life. What a kick for a kid from the projects.
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That's the thing about life. A lot of the time, it isn't easy at all. We just have to try to make the best of it.
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Winning in women's singles felt surreal. I felt that everything I had done - the hard work, the tough times - was all worth it.
