Alicia Vikander Quotes
I push myself hard. I don't like pain, exactly, but as a ballerina, I lived in constant pain. At ballet school in Stockholm, I remember we had a locker where if someone had been to the doctor and gotten painkillers, we divided them among us. In a sense, we were all addicted.
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It's the people who almost decide to live in glass houses who throw the first stones.
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Do not Forget PAIN, You Endure in it's presence!!
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Some of the most important stories don't lend themselves to television treatment.
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I push myself hard. I don't like pain, exactly, but as a ballerina, I lived in constant pain. At ballet school in Stockholm, I remember we had a locker where if someone had been to the doctor and gotten painkillers, we divided them among us. In a sense, we were all addicted.
