Kirsty Coventry Quotes
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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The other actresses, who are called my contemporaries, they started with a megastar. They were superstars overnight and are the same even today.
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting projects.
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To understand the hidden secret of the modern industrial world in which I find myself, I have to return to another world. That world is at once wartime Nice and the plantation - the sugar isles on which Europe's prosperity was built.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
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It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
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I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
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I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.
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There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
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No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.
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You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.
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'Mrs. Doubtfire' is still a fun movie, and it's still fun to watch, but it is hard to watch myself sometimes. I get very critical. And people will say, 'Mara, you were five.' And I'm like, 'Yeah, but I still should have known better!' I'm a lifelong perfectionist, what can I say?
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I'm aware that given what I've done in the past - and having a well-known parent - that people will be very quick to judge my path more than others, but I have to just not care.
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I never want to have to ask my husband for money. Never! That's incomprehensible to me. Would he have preferred that I change my name? Probably. But that's OK!
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I've never been against women. That anti-feminist rap is bogus. I think men should be nice to women, buy them diamonds.
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My very first job was a cashier at Burger King in Tucson, Arizona. And I occasionally worked the drive-thru. I'd go wherever I was needed! My second job was at Dairy Queen. I stayed in the fast food royalty.
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Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.
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When I'm onstage they know I'm honest, and I try to be as humble as I can.
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When wrong people leave your life, wrong things stop happening
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Today, nearly 40 percent of a senior's healthcare spending is on pharmaceutical medications.
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Sometimes it may seem as if progress is stalled but what history of post-war Germany shows is that strength and determination and focus and adherence to the values that we care about will result in a better future for our children and our grandchildren.
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People have to remain positive and believe in those dreams. It's really important.