Nadia Comaneci Quotes
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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When you promise something, you must fulfill it.
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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.
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There is one system of justice, demanding that all be held accountable when laws are broken.
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I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.
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Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
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I had a moment where I was like, 'I'm so tired of waiting for other people to accept me.'
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Football is losing its heart and sense of humour.
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One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.
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You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.
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If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.
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If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.
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We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.
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Now, I was on drugs, and that didn't help a whole lot. He hated that. That was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for that.
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Steve Jobs changed my life. He also changed the life of every designer.
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With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
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We never said we were hard-core or that we didn't want our music crossing over or being popular.
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Temptation exercises our faith and teaches us to pray.
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It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
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If we would regain our freedom, we must shake off the burden of sensation, no longer react to the world by our senses, break our bonds. For all sensation is a bond, pleasure as much as pain, joy as much as misery. The only free mind is the one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity.
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I wanted to have a free life.
