Aimee Mullins Quotes
With L'Oreal, I get to be Aimee Mullins, model. No qualifier. And that means everything to me.
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The world is always in movement.
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I get horrified when I have to do table reads with the whole cast, because there's a lot of stuttering coming from me, so I have to do a lot of prep.
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What an extraordinary thing it can be, love, how it will not defined by gender, by sexuality, by race, by religion, by anything. It's something else. It's something other.
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Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
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All my books are optimistic!
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I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
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I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.
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You do not need a therapist if you own a motorcycle, any kind of motorcycle!
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I'm a big 'American Idol' watcher, and sometimes I like to watch 'America's Got Talent.' Those are big, corny admissions, but sometimes it's so fun to see those kids really sing their hearts out.
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When the 'New York Times' revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.
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I've covered the White House and been yelled at by presidents.
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I think to do a proper independent movie, in my experience, it takes 22 or 23 days to shoot. That was 'Party Girl' or 'House of Yes.' But now with the digital camera, the budgets have gotten smaller, and the days have gotten shorter.
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There's no more important bonding thing than a mother doing the daughter's hair. We sit at our mother's knee and learn who we are.
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I used to be so scared about, 'Oh, I don't want to show my body.' Now that I've shown it, it doesn't bug me about my moles, or 'This isn't big enough' and 'That's not smooth enough.'
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You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
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Touring helped me understand where I needed to be better in my music.
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I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can.
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It was one of those cold, clammy, accusing sort of eyes-the kind that makes you reach up to see if your tie is straight: and he looked at me as I were some sort of unnecessary product which Cuthbert the Cat had brought in after a ramble among the local ash-cans.
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Life is not fair. And you have to choose your battles, because there are some that you cannot win. If you're passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it.
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I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.
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I still speak Czech with my parents because I was born there.
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I think Muslims have become the new Negroes in America. They are being mistreated at airports, by the Immigration - everywhere. Islam is a religion of peace. They are wrong.
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With L'Oreal, I get to be Aimee Mullins, model. No qualifier. And that means everything to me.
