Dominique Moceanu Quotes

I have a secret sibling that I never knew existed and who was given up for adoption at birth by my parents, and she was born without legs.

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• Back in high school, I didn't ever see a Muslim homecoming king or queen - there was never even anyone nominated. It just seemed for a lot of those events, Muslim kids were not being included, and it was probably our fault too - no one was going for it, but no one was trying to push us to do it, you know?

  

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• I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.

  

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• Greetings and death to our enemies.

  

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• Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.

  

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• There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

  

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• So, I think I'd be grateful for the next job. I always am. And I always consider everything I do to be the last thing I do.

  

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• It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.

  

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• My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters, and I arrived in L.A. during the big boom of 'Dawson's Creek.' I was getting cast as the boy next door, or the friend of the jock. I thought, 'Did I really have to do all that studying?'

  

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• We have heard time and time again in the course of our work how talking can help heal the hidden challenges we can't deal with alone.

  

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• I'd love to make a thriller.

  

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• I've always been more of a camera hog than anything, and it's just another way to get it all out!

  

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• So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.

  

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• I have been working since I was 11 on everything including period dramas.

  

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• Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.

  

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• Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.

  

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• We - we spend a lot of time, scholarly time, thinking about love and sex, but very little about the - the kind of joy that can take over a crowd of people or a group of people, in festivity, in ecstatic ritual of some kind, in celebration.

  

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• My relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year, a group used to be taken from Auckland Grammar down to the Tangariro National Park for a skiing holiday.

  

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• Ambiguity lurks in generality and may thus become an instrument of severity.

  

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• I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little.

  

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• Yeah, she's heard the war stories ... I tell it all to her. I think one has to, because one wants to know somebody, and one wants to feel that somebody knows one. I mean, the embarrassment quotient has been going down for a long time, and the fond amusement has been rising.

  

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• I have a secret sibling that I never knew existed and who was given up for adoption at birth by my parents, and she was born without legs.

  

  Dominique Moceanu
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