Nadia Comaneci Quotes
In Montreal, I kept thinking, 'Pay attention: this is the Olympics! It only happens once every four years!'
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God's not thinking about your mistakes, failures or shortcomings. No, His thoughts toward you are good.
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I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and lived in Baltimore for 12 years.
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When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.
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Teenage girls these days are more and more getting lured into thinking they should dumb themselves down, and that's going to attract the wrong kind of guy, and it's serious. It's serious business.
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I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.
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I was thinking as a little girl growing up that I would be there. When I look at whether we can go to Mars, it's definitely something we can do.
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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
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A fighter lives in his training camp, and I'm not always paying attention to what is happening on the outside. But I do know the Mexican people and the Mexican-American people in this country are very hard-working people. That's my only comment about Donald Trump.
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I do not need any cheerleaders at my moot court. And I cannot imagine walking into that Court without the preparation of a few vicious moot courts; it is critical to the development of my thinking.
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I always paid attention to Lil Wayne - close attention. He's my idol. He's still my idol.
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But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nation's history.
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I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
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Oftentimes, in fact I think this is to my fault, I look at usually scripts as a whole. I should probably pay more attention to the character that I'm going to play and what they do.
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We are so indebted to our ancestors, musically speaking, that they have left us 400 years of music.
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The years teach much which the days never know.
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When you're first reading the script and thinking about playing the part, it's slightly daunting. It's easy to question, 'Is an audience going to like me? And is that my job?'
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I was eight years old when I knew I wanted to be an actress. I slowly started by getting into commercials, and then I was an extra on a TV show. And then the movies happened.
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We want you to pay attention.
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My only way of getting my uncles' attention or aunts' attention or whoever's attention was by dancing and singing around the house.
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The weapons that were once outside sharpening themselves on war are now indoors there, in the fortress, fragile in glass cases; Why is it (I’m thinking of the careful moulding round the stonework archways) that in this time, such elaborate defences keep things that are no longer (much) worth defending?
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I want to work with directors who can tell intimate stories in a way that feels universal and with a big enough scope and depth to travel outside of Iceland.
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Society or culture or whatever you might want to call it, has created us all solely and wholly for the purpose of maintaining its continuity and status quo.
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In Montreal, I kept thinking, 'Pay attention: this is the Olympics! It only happens once every four years!'
