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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• My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.

  

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• I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.

  

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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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• We don't know, ultimately, if we'll end up in San Francisco, but we're talking about keeping the house. It would be nice to always have a place here.

  

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• In my marriages, I'd lost parts of who I was because I was trying to mold myself into what I thought a man wanted me to be.

  

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• I think the fact that I grew up in show business had a real effect on my personality. If you were born in New York during the golden age of television, and you grew up on Broadway, that marks you.

  

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• A lot of the celebrities' kids are Jake Paulers, and so they'll run up and say, 'My dad is this person,' 'My dad is that person.' I'm, like, 'Yo, what's up bro? How are you?'

  

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• The outside world told black kids when I was growing up that we weren't worth anything. But our parents said it wasn't so, and our churches and our schoolteachers said it wasn't so. They believed in us, and we, therefore, believed in ourselves.

  

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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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