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"I am not really sure how I got interested in medicine."
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"I'd rather not look for a job... to let a fine one find me. And that definitely wouldn't define me as a snob!"

"When at work, be diligent because there are many people who wish they had your job, but they couldn't since you are the one who got."

"Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese."

"Don't be too enthusiastic when choosing a profession " think of earningfor life too."

"A writer can live by his writing. If not so luxuriously as by other trades, then less luxuriously. The nature of the work he does all day will more affect his happiness than the quality of his dinner at night. Whatever be your calling, and however much it brings you in the year, you could still, you know, get more by cheating. We all suffer ourselves to be too much concerned about a little poverty; but such considerations should not move us in the choice of that which is to be the business and justification of so great a portion of our lives; and like the missionary, the patriot, or the philosopher, we should all choose that poor and brave career in which we can do the most and best for mankind."

"Every job will demand some sacrifice. The key is to avoid unnecessary sacrifice."
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"Probably the '86 nationals. That was my first real national title and first real statement I ever made in figure skating, and my life changed after I returned."


"My skating is a very emotional thing that comes from the heart, never doing it for the medal."


"I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true."


"What was most important to me at the Olympics was going out there and performing my best. When I messed up the first jump combination, which was my big move, it hit me that I messed up the program of my life."
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