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Now you can see me in the flesh, and I don't really look as I'm made to look on television.
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I had 45 amateur fights, and I was able to win two national titles in those three years as an amateur.
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I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.
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I grew up poor in India, and there were days when we struggled to find food and other basic necessities. Our mother worked odds and ends jobs to keep the family together and educate us.
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Dormer by name, Dormer by nature: I love to sleep.
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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Growing up in the suburbs, I used to listen to punk rock, Brand New, Taking Back Sunday. And no one from my high school listened to it.
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Being enlightened is just being aware. It's just being aware of something that you weren't aware before.
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There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.
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I enjoyed listening to it, but I didn't think I could do it.
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Grand Slam losses are hard. I treat myself after losses though, I usually go to McDonald's and I have a hamburger and you know, something. Because you know, you just need to be nice to yourself sometimes after the loss.
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I love painting so much that nothing else matters.
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A lot of people I make music with are really talented and it doesn't stop at one instrument.
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I like being a mother. For some people, it's so much work that it can be a burden. But it's not for me, maybe because I had my daughter, Valentina, later on in life, at 41.
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As a girl who was raised on the idea that we should give back to our community as much as possible, I believe that we have more power than we think when it comes to making change.
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Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
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One thing I love to do when I'm working out is take my watch off, take my heart strap off, and just run - not for time, not for exertion, but just to get the blood flowing.
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We've got a very difficult situation created by this embrace of the so-called Arab Spring. And that's not getting better. It's getting worse. The carnage for the people of Syria is horrific, and it's quite frankly too little, too late to reverse a lot of that.
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When I turned 59, I looked at that as the first day of my 60th year, so I've been 60 for the last 365 days, in my opinion. So I've been thinking all this year, I'm 60 - this is the time when I need to get some stuff done.
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You don't have love without sacrifice; you can't have sacrifice without love.
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Coming into a game in the eighth or ninth inning is like parachuting behind enemy lines. And sometimes the chute doesn't open. You have to live with that. It's an occupational hazard.
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The only moment football really stops is with a penalty kick - and that is a moment that is really dramatic. A penalty kick becomes a Western duel. It's two guys facing each other. Destiny and potential death, whether metaphorical or literal. That's why in the penalty kick at the end of the film, I shot it like an homage to the Sergio Leone Westerns I saw when I was a kid, especially The Good, The Bad And The Ugly.
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In order for a man to feel whole, he needs someone to look up to and someone to look up to him.
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If you look at any normal organization, the CEO is the person with the highest E.Q. The person with the highest IQ is often in the back room running the financials or the operations. That's topsy turvy.
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Now you can see me in the flesh, and I don't really look as I'm made to look on television.
