Mia Hamm Quotes
The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.
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When I was sixteen years old, I was sentenced to two years in prison; the Swedish government changed it, so I could go to a boarding school as part of a social programme. I was in this boarding school with some of the richest kids in Sweden.
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But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.
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I hope to get out before they start football next year.
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I went to quite an academic school, and all my friends were going to university, but even before my acting jobs, I didn't want to do that. I didn't want to spend another three years being institutionalised, and I feel that getting out of that system benefited me in quite a few ways.
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I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
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Winston Cup and the Busch Series are two totally different leagues. You get put in different situations.
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Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.
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The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
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There are some musicians who are talented and see themselves as some kind of natural geniuses or something because of a certain amount of natural ability. But that is often rarely the case over the long term.
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The media is too concentrated, too few people own too much. There's really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear. It's not healthy.
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I wasn't a rebel.
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If we just made one movie, 'The Hobbit,' the fact is that all the fans, the eight-, nine- and 10-year-old boys, they would watch it 1,000 times. Now, they've got three films they can watch 1,000 times.
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You can't break Russian people, you know? 'Cos we're made in cold snow. We're very resistant.
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Because of the feminist perspective, we have gotten a view of the world that is distorted.
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People could live very happily without the Turner Prize, but they could not live without real communication and emotion.
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Puerto Rican culture is very different from Mexican culture. Part of the Mexican psychology is the idea of being an immigrant or being illegal or being confused with that. That doesn't happen with Puerto Ricans, because you're a commonwealth.
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For a while, I became a model scout and agent, thinking naively I could change the industry from the inside, and even kicked off the famous 'size zero debate' with an article I wrote to the 'Evening Standard' about my concerns from behind the curtain of the business, back in 2005.
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The debut film came much easier to me than it would have if I was an outsider.
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In our generation, the role models were Gandhi and Nehru. We revered them. They were venerated personalities. I read almost every speech of Nehru.
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No one wants perfection. I want a confident, smart guy, obviously, but what's hot is a guy who doesn't have all the answers. We gals like a guy we can help because, ultimately, we like being needed.
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I got my own back.
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My husband has no desire to work with me; don't get it twisted. He gets paid a lot of money to write giant movies. He's not into humoring me with my projects. But, that being said, I did have the story credit on 'Blades of Glory,' and writing is something that I've always been interested in pursuing more.
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The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.
