Nastia Liukin Quotes
I take it a little bit hard on myself because I'm comparing myself a lot, and that's the kind of person I am because I'm so competitive, but it's also good, because I am competitive, so it kind of kicks you in the butt.
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.
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My parents took me to see plays, starting from when I was very little. Oftentimes, I was too young to understand. I don't know what my parents were thinking - 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' when I was eight years old, that kind of thing. So lots of times, I didn't understand what was going on, but I just loved the sound of dialogue.
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Although it's the hub of the nervous system and the ultimate terminus of every nerve, the brain itself lacks enervation and therefore cannot feel pain.
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Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
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Let us have peace.
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I'm not a quitter. I believe in following things through.
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I'm not going to lie; the most fun of writing these books is just saying, 'Where am I going to write about? Let me go there!'
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When I fell for Johnny Galecki, we both knew immediately that we had this connection, and that was it.
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The biggest thrill in the world is entertaining the public, there is no bigger thrill than that.
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I believe in aging gracefully.
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The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.
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Explosions are not comfortable.
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Linda Thorson was a great actress with a great body, but she arrived just as 'The Avengers' was losing its appeal.
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I do yoga, I do Bikram and I run, and I eat really healthy.
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Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.
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'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.
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Richard III is not likeable. Macbeth is not likeable. Hamlet is not likeable. And yet you can't take your eyes off them. I'm far more interested in that than I am in any sort of likeability.
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Being Jewish is a big part of my artistic sensibility and my humor... I think it gives me a certain take on the world on a literary level.
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Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can't be without.
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Signing up to be an organ donor should be at least as easy as downloading a song to your iPhone.
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I take it a little bit hard on myself because I'm comparing myself a lot, and that's the kind of person I am because I'm so competitive, but it's also good, because I am competitive, so it kind of kicks you in the butt.
