Aimee Mullins Quotes
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I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.
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All my friends were non-Muslims. I actually knew very little about Islam - like, very little.
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I've always been a feminist, and what I love in my work is being able to explore a full-sided woman and not patronize her.
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I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.
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Personally, I don't like the term 'success.' It's too arbitrary and too relative a thing. It's usually someone else's definition, not yours.
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I think I do myself a disservice by comparing myself to Steve Jobs and Walt Disney and human beings that we've seen before. It should be more like Willy Wonka... and welcome to my chocolate factory.
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It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it's always the war widows who lead the Memorial Day parades.
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If you're a citizen of the State of New York, your kid has as much a right as another kid to an education, and the best education. The money should be distributed equally to all.
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What I try to do is to appreciate every job I have while I'm working on it.
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When I sit down to begin penciling a page, most of the hard work for me is done. I can concentrate solely on my art from that point on, which is the fun part!
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Money takes wings. The only thing that endures is character.
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If someone tied me down and made me answer the question, singer, actress, clothing designer, I most likely - it could change on any given day, but mostly likely I would lean towards singing. It's where I feel most like myself - on stage singing.
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The hardest part about this business is accepting the back end with the same love that you accepted the front end.
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Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.
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For some critics we might be uncool on account of our popularity.
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I guess there was a little bit of a slight rebellion, maybe a little bit of a renegade desire that made me realize at some point in my adolescence that I really liked pictures that told stories of things - genre paintings, historical paintings - the sort of derivatives we get in contemporary society.
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Don't get me wrong: I love a massive show with dancers and the works, and I love Zumba! But I just want there to be more people who just sing.
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cupido dominandi cunctis adfectibus flagrantior est
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If you're in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect.
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From the moment I was six I felt sexy. And let me tell you it was hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it.
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Women often focus more on staying friends, which is as important as climbing the mountain.
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We were both chumps. But you know what? It's not so bad when you're chumps together.
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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It's not 'if;' it's 'how.'
