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 didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.
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I knew a ton of actors and was friends with them, but I never dated actresses. I tried to date 'normal' people because the Hollywood dating rule is 'one star per couple' because it's quite a challenge to match the egos of two actors.
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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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I probably have an earlier curfew than anyone. My mom wants to keep me really safe and my dad's not overly protective, but he's a dad no matter what.
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I think there are influences that you open the door to, and influences that come under the door.
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It's not easy to walk out on a marriage and two young kids, and it's the most difficult thing I've ever had to do.
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I believe for the first time in history, entrepreneurship is now a viable career.
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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.