Simone Manuel Quotes
I want to be an inspiration, but I would like there to be a day when it is not 'Simone the black swimmer.'
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If I can help and influence girls who are going through body-image issues then I think that's amazing.
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I'm an actress, not a pinup.
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Cornwall bears a certain resemblance to Italy: each is like a leg or boot, but Italy stands a-tiptoe to the south, whereas Cornwall is thrust out to the west. But, whereas Italy is kicking Sicily as a football, Cornwall has but the shattered group of the Scilly Isles at its toe.
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In high school and college, I did not have any Christian friends except my best friend Sarah, who I actually 'brought to Jesus.'
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A cat is never vulgar.
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My uncle was the first brown person to have a market stall on Petticoat Lane in the 1960s. He worked his way up from the street. He was homeless, but eventually he got a car so he could sell from the boot. And by the 1980s, he was a millionaire wholesaling to companies like Topshop. So in a way, fashion put me in England.
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The voters of Colorado deserve honest, straight-talking elected officials.
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I play on the left hand side, and I try to do the best I can.
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What we want to do is put a price on greenhouse gases. Because if they're more expensive, businesses will find a way to be more efficient or switch to solar or hydro or wind power. So that will reduce emissions.
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I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'
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I've learned so many things from directors in my acting career. There are even some things I've learned that I didn't want to do. There are those directors who've really made me shine and others who've made me opaque.
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If we have the intent to use the military only when needed, then that also becomes, then, therefore, a credible deterrent.
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When it comes down to music, I have no balance. I am 100 percent. It is like full throttle. Five hundred miles an hour.
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I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it.
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In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices.
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All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?
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Most pieces take between two and three weeks and involve more than 40 people from the fabric cutters to the embroiders to the sewers. It's an elaborate undertaking.
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I felt the pressure of imagination against the doors of my mind was so great that they were going to burst.
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My dad is Caucasian, and my mom is African American. I'm half black and half white. Being biracial paints a blurred line that is equal parts staggering and illuminating.
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People go into science out of curiosity, not to win awards. But scientists are human and have ambitions.
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People always want to put a label on you; they always want to compare you to something.
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There are 1.3 billion people in China, and they all want a Buick.
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I want to be an inspiration, but I would like there to be a day when it is not 'Simone the black swimmer.'
