Yvonne Strahovski Quotes

I loved school, I loved putting on my uniform and doing homework every day. I was one of those good students that the teachers liked. I guess that's got to be a pretty nerdy, geeky part of me.

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• I've received many good pieces of advice throughout my life.

  

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• At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published. You had to be great. Now you can be good. Mediocre. And that's good.

  

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• A good school teaches you resilience - that ability to bounce back.

  

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• What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.

  

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• I would say I'm pretty much the exact same as the stereotypical American kid. I mean I'm really lazy, I play a lot of video games, I like girls. I like, you know, the violence and action type thing.

  

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• I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.

  

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• As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrophe from start to finish.

  

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• The C.E.O. of Google doesn't look like a Dick Cheney World Domination sort whom we should worry about as Google ogles our houses, our oceans, our foibles, our movements and our tastes.

  

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• I loved school, I loved putting on my uniform and doing homework every day. I was one of those good students that the teachers liked. I guess that's got to be a pretty nerdy, geeky part of me.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
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