Nadia Comaneci Quotes
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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The cadence of life is slower in North Korea.
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I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.
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I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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I'm not going to lie; the most fun of writing these books is just saying, 'Where am I going to write about? Let me go there!'
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I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.
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If we get a few solid festival shows then I will have no problem booking the lads for as many quality club shows around them to make a nice tour come together.
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But, I couldn't live without creation gymnastics.
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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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In fact, because of their connection to the land, farmers do more to protect and preserve our environment than almost anyone else. They are some of the best environmentalists around.
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My first love was acting. I went to Sidney Poitier films as a kid. I sat in the theater and dreamed of being an actor.
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But I don't have a very good track record with royalty. My dress fell off in front of Prince Charles at the Prince's Trust, so I'm just living up to my reputation.
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If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.
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I got a psychology degree from USC, but music is just my whole life.
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
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Jokes that are gratuitously offensive are synonymous with bad writing to me. I'm offended as a writer first and as a person second.
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When you lock everything down tight so that the pain can't get out, you also keep good stuff from getting in.
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The fact that nobody asks you to sing is not an indication that you should sing louder. This sounds obvious until it's applied to matters like mass transportation. There are virtually no private mass transit companies. This does not represent the failure of the market to provide a needed service, it represents the failure of an unneeded service to go away!
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I find I can write for two lines, and then I have nothing else to say. For me, the only way to find something comes through the sentence level and sticking with the sentences that give a subtle feeling that there's something more to say.
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It's a lot easier to act when the writing is good. Nothing is more frustrating than trying to figure out 'Well, why did I say this next?'
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I'm very good friends with my former coaches. We speak on the phone a lot.
