Nikki Haley (Nimrata "Nikki" Haley) Quotes
As I said, my parents loved that when they came to America, if you worked hard, the only things that could stop you were the limits you placed on yourself.
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I love New York. It's hard to explain, but it's the energy of the city. It's not like L.A. where everything is spread out.
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My mum was no pushy parent. She would drop me off for auditions when I was in my teens at the Lyric Theatre, then give me my bus fare and say she would see me later at home. She wasn't hanging around in the wings geeing me on. I had to do it on my own; it was up to me.
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When I said I was going to audition for a film, I got a hearty laugh from all my family.
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I have a tweet that said, 'I want to be a Calvin Klein model,' and that was in 2011. And then I modeled for Calvin Klein. And then I had a tweet like, 'I wonder what it's like to be in front of thousands of fans,' and I've been in front of thousands of fans.
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The spark for 'In Praise of Slowness' came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their bedtime stories read at a gentle, meandering pace. But I used to be too fast to slow down with the Brothers Grimm. I would zoom through the classic fairy tales, skipping lines, paragraphs, whole pages.
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I would have been a much more popular Wolrd Champion if I had always said what people wanted to hear. I might have been dead, but definitely more popular.
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The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.
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If you are lucky enough to have a parent or two alive on this planet, call them. Don't text; don't e-mail. Call them on the phone.
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So struggling for work here has been very good for me, but it's also been very hard to handle rejection.
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The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.
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The ad in the paper said 'Big Sale. Last Week.' Why advertise? I already missed it. They're just rubbing it in.
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She said it had been hijacked shortly after takeoff. By this time, the plane had been in the air - again, I'm presuming that it took off on time - for over an hour.
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When I got to match point in the final I was afraid I'd be a little nervous, but I just said, You have to stay focused, just think about what you have to do.
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My mom was a single parent.
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I've always said I'm the worst representative of Muslim-Americans that's ever existed, because I've been inside more bars than mosques.
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Wrestling is a hard sport, but it's only a sport.
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It's a very difficult thing losing a parent, but I think there's an added complication for me, because he was so well-loved and he had this very open charm that made people feel they had a personal relationship with him.
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I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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Reciting lines is hard; making stuff up is much, much easier.
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I've always said that if I could do anything in the world, I would be a professional golfer.
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Every pizza is a personal pizza if you try hard and believe in yourself.
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After a hard frost a man might wake in the morning and find he was breaking a covenant.
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I'm so positive.
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As I said, my parents loved that when they came to America, if you worked hard, the only things that could stop you were the limits you placed on yourself.
