For as long as I can really remember, I wanted to be a doctor.

Right now I am doing my residency in orthopedic research.

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

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.

For as long as I can really remember, I wanted to be a doctor.

I begged my mom to let me start skating.

I am not really sure how I got interested in medicine.

I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice.

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

I was always very strong in math, physics and calculus.

I watch a lot of professional skating, and I am really looking forward to going to nationals.

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.

So I went for engineering, specifically product design, which I enjoyed.

The Olympics: not one of my better memories.

I would make my mom buy me the toy doctor kit.

Being an Olympian, I always have this strong belief in excellence.

But I like it when my patients are impressed not knowing that I was an Olympian.

I got a bronze medal and I can't complain about that, the only African-American to get a medal in the Winter Olympics.

I want people to know when I'm taking care of them I'll give it all that I've got.

I wanted to be a doctor since I was five.

I've got this thing with skating and school - to see how much I can accomplish.

Just because you didn't start out perfect doesn't mean you can't have an excellent result in the end.

My mother introduced me to many different things, and figure skating was one of them. I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice.

What makes you really come together under pressure is determination and focus and toughness.

If you trust your nerve as well as your skill, you're capable of a lot more than you can imagine.

The indictment, in a lot of ways, that was the turning point.

What's great about an office Christmas party is that it uncovers and reveals parts of your personality that you didn't see coming.

I am ready to debate how we fight terrorism without giving up our liberty.

I'm a planner, and most networks don't plan. Bravo doesn't plan. Bravo is lucky in a lot of ways - they've got a lot of great talent, but at the same time, they don't nurture it. They lost 'Project Runway.'

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Tone can be as important as text.

After 9/11, the businesses in my district and throughout the New York metropolitan area saw firsthand the result of a lack of availability of terrorism insurance.

What's great in theater is that you can sustain the arc of a character for a full three hours, whereas in film or TV, you have to create that arc in little pieces, and usually out of sequence.

Bright light is injurious to those who see nothing.

Undertaker certainly is a cornerstone of WWE, and just as I say to myself that I really would have liked to been able to get to know and certainly get in the ring with Andre the Giant, just because of all the respect and folklore that went around with Andre, I think The Undertaker has that same sort of respect and folklore around him.

No one ever actually said they were resistant because 'Pitch Perfect' was female-centric. When a project is sitting there for a while, you start to speculate about what could be the thing that might be a little tricky about it.

Working with Madonna, she always told me the meaning behind the steps and why I was doing these steps - she treated us like actors. So I feel like I've always been an actor, truly.

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What is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally moulds chaos itself into a race of gods.

The countryside in Belfast is beautiful. No technical wizardry is needed to show quite how glorious it is in its natural state.

Every obstacle is a hidden step on the path to promotion.

Resist the need to be 'right' all the time or to always have the last word.

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The crushing, pitiful, and frequently just plain risible pathos of an unsuccessful actor/performer's life is well charted.

A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.

No matter what, I still was gonna make music, even if it was on a small scale. Even if it was just for me.

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