Not to be too grandiose about it, but in a way I see myself like Sir Edmund Hillary. The water was my Everest.
Most physicists like myself won't believe the result until every possible caveat has been investigated and/or the result is confirmed elsewhere.
I rank myself no higher in the scheme of things than a policeman - whose utility would disappear if there were no criminals.
I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.
The most bizarre thing I've ever read about myself is that I was dead. That was kind of weird to read that I'm dead - mostly because I was reading it.
I used to see Estee Lauder's ads everywhere in the subways of Beijing, and I thought how wonderful it would be if the model on them was myself!
What I want is that I can match my performances during training so I can be satisfied with myself.
I describe myself as someone who was always putting on a show, even when I was a little girl. I wanted to be an actress but I liked organizing everybody and putting on plays. I was a producer.
Quite honestly, I treat myself with cars I really want to drive, and I have some flexibility to do that.
A lot of the drive to make narratives came from having to play by myself as a 5- or 6-year-old in the woods.
I hated myself for so many reasons, and I thought so many things were my fault that happened to me growing up.
I come from a modest background. I put myself through college and law school and a postdoctorate program in tax law.
Every comedian comes to a fork in the road where they have to decide if they're going to make jokes about other people or make jokes about themselves. I chose myself.
I pulled myself back before wind could knock me down. I survived the wind and my own person.
As an artist myself, I know what it's like to put your heart and soul into something. You can feel the presence of another person.
Now you watch reality TV, you watch them in all those pools or Jacuzzis and I say to myself was I that stupid? But that was me then.
Basketball made me happy to be tall. And more secure about myself than I ever would have been without it.
I could produce spurts of speed and after taking up athletics I found myself running quite quickly over 400m.
I do take care of myself; I get my nails done, and I have a skin doctor, but that's it. I'm clean and groomed.
I consider myself more of an international artist than I do a one-territory artist, which I think is a blessing.
I have a bronze statue of myself, naked. I have these really big curls and water comes out of every curl. It's hot.
