Olga Korbut Quotes
And we lost a lot because of that, and I think this is future gymnastics to separate ages. Because kids can do it more than adult. A woman and adult woman can show more than the small kids.
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I know that there are going to be people that don't like my music, but I think in the industry itself it is always that, 'Oh. you're from the 'X Factor.' There have been certain radio stations that will not play your song because you are from the 'X Factor,' yet they'll play another song from an artist from another TV show.
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The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.
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I'm not a psychiatrist.
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Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mom or my dad. I would never tell them that these songs are about them or which specific lyric is about somebody. Often, when I sit down to write a lyric, it is in the heat of the moment, and something has just happened.
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Writing is challenging work because it's so easy to get consumed with how it's going, what's going to happen to it, who's going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.
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Dementia resembles delirium in the same way an ultra-marathon resembles a dash across the street. Same basic components, vastly different scale. If you've run delirium's course once or twice in your life, try to imagine a version that never ends.
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Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family.
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Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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When I went into the Montreal Games, nobody expected much out of me.
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I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.
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Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me.
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I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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I don't want to be someone else.
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
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I've always been motivated to stop people from doing dysfunctional things.
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Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.
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The U.S. government has known since the early 1990s about Soviet-era smallpox weapons, and collected circumstantial evidence of programs elsewhere.
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The fashion world feels more normal to me when I'm with them.
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Theater was definitely part of my roots. My father would take me to plays, and then my mother was always on the lookout for other talent and taking me to see plays. I saw Frank Langella in 'Dracula'... Great, great performances. I was a theater rat, hanging out backstage.
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I did organize something in high school like a school walkout. These kids were locked up in their school, they weren't allowed out, but 3,000 school kids from Sydney walked out and protested. And I organized it from my mom's office at work. And I was 12.
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And we lost a lot because of that, and I think this is future gymnastics to separate ages. Because kids can do it more than adult. A woman and adult woman can show more than the small kids.
