Aimee Mullins Quotes
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This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
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I endeavour to read more, be more informed on gay rights. Whatever floats your boat is my outlook. It's hard enough to be happy without having legislation against you, too.
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Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
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My grandfather arrived in Houston in 1942 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He had lost everything - his profession, his language, his money - but the city welcomed him, as it has hundreds of thousands of immigrants over the years.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.
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You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.
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We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
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There's no regrets for me.
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I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
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You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?
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I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.
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Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.
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I love working with the right actor, and if the right actor happens to be unknown, that should be allowed, too, I think.
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I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.
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I think one of my first jokes - in the black community, there's people who have jokes about skin tone. People like, 'You so black, you purple.' 'You so black, you gotta smile so we can see you at night.'
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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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A laugh is a terrible weapon.
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I've liked women but I've never felt I wanted to give up my life completely. I've never wanted to go to bed with anybody.
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You define your own life. Don't let other people write your script.
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That experience of touching down in a totally foreign place is like having a blank canvas: You begin with nothing, but stroke by stroke you build a life. This process requires everything great art requires-risk-tasking, hope, a great deal of imagination, all the qualities that are the building blocks of art. You must be able to dream something nearly impossible and toil to bring it into existence.
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I don't hide out. If you build a wall around yourself, it draws people to invade it. Fear is the enemy.
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Fear has a very concrete power of keeping us from doing and saying the things that are our purpose.
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Life is about making your own happiness - and living by your own rules.
