Nadia Comaneci Quotes
One of the most difficult times in my life was when I escaped from Romania in November of 1989.
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I sort of wrongfully judged 'Mamma Mia!' for so long. I thought of it as a jukebox musical that I wasn't interested in. I was so wrong.
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Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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It's always difficult with the superhero stuff because you're working with characters who have been written by 100 to 200 people over the past 20 years, at least, so they never sound the same or act the same. The best approach is to try to draw the best fitting line through all of the interpretations.
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When you watch it, you're like, Wow. I look like that. But it doesn't feel like that at all. It was about communicating with Gale Harold and getting across what I wanted to say about the character.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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I don't work out but generally I am fit, which is why I don't work out.
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It's incredible what happens when you explain to kids what good food is - they get so excited! They go home and tell their parents... and they're excited to cook the recipes themselves in class.
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Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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I think in general, lines are a bad idea. Especially if they sound like lines. Everyone's immediate reaction is to just kind of cringe a little bit.
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I need this wild life, this freedom.
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me – ever.
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At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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I think every major character I've played was originally for an older woman. I have no idea what that says. I guess I'm mature for my age.
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I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.
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It doesn't matter if you're a Victoria's Secret model or you're someone's 90-year-old grandma or you're a little kid who's getting bullied or you're that kid's bully - everybody feels like there's something going on that's more correct than what is. We all have to reach out to one another in that fear, and we'd be surprised to hear, 'Me, too.'
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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It was a huge shock. I've never had hair that short in my life! I think the rest of the cast and crew were mourning my haircut more than I was! But after a while, I felt liberated, I learned to embrace it.
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The government's position was that we have frigates that have got a useful life until 2006. There is no necessity for us to make final decisions until 2002.
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One of the most difficult times in my life was when I escaped from Romania in November of 1989.
