Dominique Moceanu Quotes
Since my mother is an extremely devoted Christian Orthodox woman, she prayed a great deal and taught me how to pray.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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The Western day is indeed nearing when the inner science of self-control will be found as necessary as the outer conquest of nature. This new Atomic Age will see men's minds sobered and broadened by the now scientifically indisputable truth that matter is in reality a concentrate of energy.
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Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.
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You don't get to the highest levels of the sport without having the basics in order.
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My dad's family were pretty working class, actually.
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I'm a bit of a perfectionist. I'll watch myself back on 'Xtra Factor' and want to do it again because of a few hiccups.
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I have an irregular heartbeat, so that means a fair amount of medication - and I have blood pressure pills, too, but no vitamins or supplements.
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I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.
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It was only after university that I said to myself that I had to take the risk and have a serious go at acting. It's such a bizarre profession, because you have to be totally tough to deal with all those times when you're being turned down, and then really soft in order to access your character's emotions.
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My father's death from prostate cancer in 1993 was tragic. He never complained about pain. He was a fighter. By the time he was ready to die he wasn't able to die in the way that he wanted to, which seemed an outrage to me.
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I grew up in Arizona, but I moved to L.A. when I was 18 to model. I was doing work for American Apparel and then got cast in the Yeezus tour. Vanessa Beecroft did the creative direction, and they hired three American Apparel models and nine dancers - it wasn't a lot of dancing; we were mostly just walking.
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I think of myself as a very ordinary person. I like writing about the juxtaposition between people: the beauty of them at times and then the banal, everyday context in which we find ourselves.
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You have to be resilient.
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I first met Jimbo Wales, the face of Wikipedia, when he came to speak at Stanford.
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It's very difficult to decide. And I'm very open to proposals.
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Patiently and with industry did I apply myself to study, for although I felt the impossibility of giving life to my productions, I did not abandon the idea of representing nature.
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Marguerite, joyfully: 'We are ourselves, my dear, we are ourselves. We'll never be anyone else.'
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Finney is about the best writer of time travel stories ever, and I adore time travel stories - have to make a time travel game someday!
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Since my mother is an extremely devoted Christian Orthodox woman, she prayed a great deal and taught me how to pray.
