Edmund Hillary Quotes
I was scared many times on Everest, but this is all part of the challenge. When I fell down a crevasse, it was pretty scary.
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If you love attention and have a pretty decent voice, that's a pretty good combination.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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But Eraserhead was the first real intense kind of thing I had ever done before the cameras and Lynch had to really bring me down a lot and he still does.
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We must strictly enforce the Environmental Law, closing down the polluters that fail to meet the standards.
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My dream as an actor growing up was always to challenge myself to different genres, different roles, and it's actually rare that an actor's given that opportunity to do that.
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My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable.
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When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
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I created my own charity called My Peak Challenge. We've been able to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds. It's helping change people's lives, and I've had lots of wonderful letters about it.
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I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.
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I'm comfortable only when there's a mutual attraction. That's what anyone wants. If I find out she's not attracted to me, it brings down my level of attraction to her. If I'm interested and find out she's not, I tend to cool off.
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You have to ask yourself if you want to be the kind of actress who's interesting, or the kind of actress who's meant to play the pretty-but-uninteresting wife of a chubby guy on a network sitcom.
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I don't think there's ever a right time to have kids. I'm actually pretty glad it's happened quite young.
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I have a huge Lego collection - I have a really big Lego collection. We're talking pretty darn large. I also have a huge collection of original stainless steel Thomas the Tank Engine train toys. Beautiful little trains; they're my favorite thing in the world.
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I believe the Obama administration, from the president on down, has taken a very weak position regarding granting Palestine statehood at the United Nations.
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I don't know what I'm qualified to do, film-wise... So it's really down to a director or a casting director to find something that they think I could do.
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There's so many other things I want to do. I don't want to do them to be different or just for a challenge, but because my heart and soul tell me to.
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Honestly, with me, as long as I have a park to play basketball in, I'm pretty cool.
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The modern museum has multiple purposes - to curate and preserve, to research, and to reach out to the public. They challenge us and ask us to question our assumptions about the past or the world around us.
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New Yorkers aren't that friendly, but they're still pretty friendly, and they're hardworking, passionate people.
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In early history phobias might have provided the extra margin needed to insure survival...
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Our bodies are made to nurture and cuddle and all of those amazing things that come along with being a mom.
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That each sorrow has its purpose, By the sorrowing oft unguessed, But as sure as the sun brings morning, Whatever is-is best.
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Why, thou deboshed fish thou...Wilt thou tell a monstrous lie, being but half a fish and half a monster?
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I was scared many times on Everest, but this is all part of the challenge. When I fell down a crevasse, it was pretty scary.
