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During a Chess competition a Chessmaster should be a combination of a beast of prey and a monk
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I've never had formal drama-school training; I've just picked things up as I've gone along.
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And I think that still is true of this business - which is basically research and development - that you probably spend more time in planning and training and designing for things to go wrong, and how you cope with them, than you do for things to go right.
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Early in my career I was accused of being overconfident and even cocky, but I really was confident that I had done the training and didn't see any other reason to say otherwise.
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I didn't give myself enough breaks during the training year to recover. I didn't understand the power of periodization.
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You have to trust your body to take care of you.
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I'm a short woman with a pretty good body and large breasts — that's not what I think of as sexy.
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One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves, what it is like to be someone or something else, what it is like to live in another skin, what it is like to live in another body, and in that sense to surpass ourselves, to go out beyond ourselves.
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When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It's nourishing; it's rejuvenating.
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A lot of my life is about will - having the will to prove what my body can do.
