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Oh, the Places You'll Go!,' by Dr. Seuss, is still one of my favorite books ever.

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Hilary Swank
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: July 30
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There's so much more to life than looking a certain way.
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I believe that the definition of luck is when preparation meets with opportunity.
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I haven't tucked a sock in my pants for three years.
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Few people know this about me, but I love baking pies.
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I believe in talent, and you believe in who you cast and help them go the distance.
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My job is about playing people. And I think once you lose touch with people, what do you play?
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I wake up so full of life and feeling so alive and so full of joy when I get to go to a set and tell a story. I just - I couldn't imagine not having that, and what a gift it's been in my life.
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I had to fight my whole life to break out of my circumstances. That's just part of my makeup.
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As a performer, I don't like to play the same thing over and over. I like to play it and let it go and move on. That's also why television hasn't really been something that I've done.
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The past is gone. I know it sounds cliché, but you're here. Like be in it. And boxing was a really good analogy for me to try and carry that in my everyday life all the time.
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I'm just a girl from a trailer park who had a dream. I never thought this would ever happen.
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I really enjoy playing with someone else and whether it's chess or tennis or games, I love card games. I love that, but I think there's something so important to gain from winning and losing and learning how to lose and how you can be better from that.
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When I was a swimmer and I would lose a heat in something I was doing whether it backstroke or breaststroke, were two of my most strongest strokes, I would look at how whoever it was that won and beat me and think, What did they do? What were... What were the qualities that they had that I can incorporate into my swimming to make me better?
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I bring my dogs on set with me, and my little dog Karoo is smart as a whip. She knows where the craft-services food tables are, so anytime I can't find her, I know she has found her way to that area. She's a funny dog.
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I am a competitive person with myself. I always find new goals to achieve, new challenges to breakthrough, and I try and do something new every day. And I'm highly competitive with myself.
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Making a movie is you're really only as good as your weakest link, so when everyone's working at their best and it actually comes together, it's an extraordinary thing because it doesn't always.
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New Yorkers have this special spot in Central Park, where they do this 5K run, the minute the clock strikes twelve. I ran once, and I'll never do that again, either. But, it's awesome to watch those people run. It's such a great environment and place to be.
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There's so much I want to do as an actor. I feel like there's so much more that I want to achieve and that I can achieve.
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It's hard to find really original, compelling works of fiction, for women especially. I find that these true life stories about these women that I'm so blessed to play are some of the most compelling stories, and the truth is stranger than fiction.
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To me, working out is literally like eating a meal or drinking water or breathing.
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