Misty May-Treanor Quotes
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I was always pretty ambitious, although it probably helps that I can't do anything else - apart from cleaning lavatories. But I remember my mum once said, 'I suppose you'll give it a year and see if you can make it as an actress?' And I said, 'No Mum, I think I'll give it 10.'
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I think a British icon is someone who conducts themself with real dignity: someone who is truly talented and modest. These are things that I would aspire to in my career.
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I think I tried to separate indoors and out. And so when he beat me indoors, I did not see that as letting anybody down, I saw it as a good head to head competition, and so it was. It was fine.
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No, I don't think my generation got into this dinosaur thing.
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I think that I have self esteem issues, really. If you really analyse it... People who really like me I have no interest in. The unattainable is always that I want to attain.
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If I see someone doing a new sport, I usually like to throw myself into it, and I never look at it and think, 'That's something I can't do.'
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Most things I get hired on, I get hired because I improvise something funny, or they just think I look weird.
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I think the thing that I get most excited about is the fact that I know I'm gonna have a great match. That's when I get the butterflies. When it's just a regular match or something like that, I may not get that.
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I still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest.
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I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.
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I'd like to think, if I was ever in a fight, I'd win, although I'd probably run in the opposite direction.
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I always have plans to return to the stage. I leave myself very open. I think what would be more likely is if I did a limited run of something, whether it be a play or a musical.
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Look, I've always said from the word go many years ago that I felt the whole bonus culture, they need to think very carefully about being detached from the rest of the British public.
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My grandmother was always upbeat, a naturally happy person. I think I got that from her.
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I think everyone in Hollywood works on multiple things because you never know what's going to happen with your projects.
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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 think Yahoo is a great company, with great assets.
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Oh, you know, I think it was definitely a little pressure, to remake something like 'Fame'.
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A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle.
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These women were taking over these former manufacturing warehouses in SoHo and figuring out a way to be fashionable and viable without money. It's hard to imagine a life like that in Manhattan now - there's something romantic about it.
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You have to be on the pitch to play football.
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I come from Nigeria, and we live by the idea that it takes a village. So my entire team. I live by my team: my friends, my neighbors, my teachers - they're the people who taught me how to be a free actor.
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When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.
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I didn't think I'd be going for another Olympics.
