"I’d try to channel my nervous energy in a positive way into strength and endurance. It didn’t always work."
― Kristi Yamaguchi
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Funny
More From Kristi Yamaguchi
- "I burnt myself out of skating. I was ready to focus on being a mom."
- "Now, I am thrilled to be a wife and mother, and I hope to be as good of a mother as my own mother, Carole."
- "At 6 years old, the ice became a place for me to express myself. Because I was so shy off the ice, it became my safe haven, with music and freedom and self-expression. That was my emotional outlet."
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- "The older I grow the more I see the influence of my family on my life. I didn’t always see it. It was up to our parents to see that we had our education in a town that hadn’t yet realized what racial prejudice was but actually knew and practiced it on occasion."― Katherine Dunham
- "Oh all the time when Victoria Wood and I did our series. There were people asking ‘Can women be funny?’ People still ask that. It’s like asking: ‘Can women breathe in and out?’"― Julie Walters