Laura Dekker Quotes
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Dad said that he was prouder of me than he'd ever been when I came out.
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I'm not Cinderella.
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Yes, there is plenty of hard work for them in addition to that which they do when they appear, smiling and happy, when the curtain goes up. Giving a performance is the least of their worries.
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There will be many types of assets codified into the blockchain, and they are all not just going to be on the bitcoin blockchain - it's going to be a number of different assets here. And the best way to invest in that is a diversified portfolio.
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Jessi is a great person. She really is. She's been a friend to me all through all my bad times, and she's understood what I was doing. She came up with that one saying, which was great.
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I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.
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Examine the history of China for 2,000 years back, and then compare it with the Western history of fifty years! Does the government of these foreign countries present such a record of generosity, benevolence, loyalty, and honesty as ours?
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As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.
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I'm tired of the speculation about my personal life.
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National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.
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Anytime I listen to my gut and I don't do something, or I do, it always tends to work out in my favor.
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I take four planes a week, honestly. You know, I am for intelligence screening.
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I've tried coconut water straight up before, and to me, it's a little funky.
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All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
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In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.
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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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I had a really dark time after the Olympic Games... But then I said to myself, 'This is a sport that's blessed me with a home, with an education, with some money. I can't hate this sport. This sport took me out of Louisiana. This sport gave me a chance when so many people don't get a chance. And I love this sport.'
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The whole Fannibal thing is predominantly something that happens in a world I don't know about, which is the Internet.
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When you're dealing with new and emerging diseases, you have no idea and you can't predict in advance what would happen.
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We have so much sex in our media that's disassociated from emotions. We have so much separation between feeling, and the emotional and the physical side of sex. They really do belong together.
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Writing the first draft of a new story is incredibly difficult for me. I will happily do revisions, because once I can see the words on the page, I can go about ripping them up and moving scenes around. A blank page, though? Terrifying. I'm always angsty when I'm working my way through a first draft.
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It was really weird dealing with the media. I had no idea how to handle it.
