Lesley Nicol Quotes
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Winning is great, but being able to finish my last Olympic Games on American soil was very important. Even though I was injured, I didn't let my psyche get the best of me and cause me to doubt myself, so I was willing to pull every muscle in my body in '96 in order to get the job done and I came away with the bronze medal.
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Basically, my socialization as a child didn't come from any schooling; it came from being in theater and meeting people online.
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I changed the city of New York. I gave people back their morale.
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The blessings wrestling has given me have allowed me to find some new passions, but it's really hard when you've got that first love, and nothing really replaces it.
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Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you.
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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
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All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else.
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Disasters are usually a good time to re-examine what we've done so far, what mistakes we've made, and what improvements should come next.
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India is my kid sister.
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My mom is in the navy and my dad works for the army, but I never called them 'sir' or 'ma'am' or anything like that, and we never really moved around a lot because both my parents were stationed in D.C.
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In the '80s and '90s, China went through a giant change. It needed all resources. At the time, I was in the recycled paper business, and I realized the China market was a blank slate.
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I'm Jewish, but not overly religious, and have certainly never formally observed the Fourth Commandment, other than via the tradition of wearing white on Friday nights at summer camp, which never seemed to dovetail with the fact that Fridays were also the night for grape juice.
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You just want to keep playing consistently now and keep working hard and I'm sure the goals will come.
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As a person of color from the South, San Francisco was the first city that really made me feel like an other.
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I can hire one-half of the working class to kill the other half.
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Fans are awesome.
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Even the holy men who lived before the coming of Christ understood that God had in mind plans of peace for the human race.
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I'm much more interested in living specific experiences in films.
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People don't appreciate their intestines until something goes wrong. But I always hope that people gain a little appreciation for their guts.
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I'm quick to be upset. My feelings are close to the surface. There is not much gap between a thought and a feeling with me. It makes it difficult for some people. I feel too much.
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What matters to me more than anything is that when all of this is over, football is the winner.
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It's okay to lose. Losing teaches you something. Having to try and going through the trials and tribulations to actually overcome, to get there to win, to triumph, that's what makes life interesting.
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I have a twin brother, so I was around guys like a sister. It was comfortable to me.
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I'm an ambassador for Medical Detection dogs.
