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"I loved tests because it was another form of competing, a healthy competition."
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"I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that."

"We all fight for money, some for power, but most of all for love. But me, I fight to become a champion."

"No, there's not much competition between puppeteers in general because everybody's working their own style."

"I love the Olympics, because they enable people from all over the world to come together and--regardless of their political or cultural differences--accuse each other of cheating."

"Our role is to maintain and monitor a framework in which fair competition can flourish."

"The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell."

"As a Republican, I am all for competition."

"Because up to sixteen years old you feel gymnastics more. You can show your emotion, grace, like woman gymnastics, not kid's gymnastics. I feel I have good shape, and I can do it elements everything, but, it's not competition for me."

"Good will is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy."

"I think I tried to separate indoors and out. And so when he beat me indoors, I did not see that as letting anybody down, I saw it as a good head to head competition, and so it was. It was fine."
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"I didn't care too much for ballet, because you had to be more disciplined, and you sort of looked like everyone else. It required a certain kind of conformity that I didn't feel like I wanted to do."


"When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world."


"I think especially in a world where you have so little say about what goes on in your life, or in the politics of the world around you, it is wonderful to go into that studio, and tell yourself what to do."


"Once I started dancing, I was not the spoiled brat or the rebellious child that I was as a child."


"I had two sisters, and we would love to get dressed up and pretend that we were chic, sophisticated ladies. And I think that was a great sort of preparation, in a way."


"I used to love to play dress-up, where you get your mother's or your grandmother's dresses and high heels."
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