In sports, I refused to do any interviews that were just going to become human-interest stories. Don’t turn me into a tragic heroine.
AIMEE MULLINSTrue beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
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Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:
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True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
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I had a paper round and every night I would put the dinner on before Mum came home from work. I was capable because I had to be.
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I don’t know what it’s like to be an arm amputee, or have even one flesh-and-bone leg, or to have cerebral palsy.
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At some point in every person’s life, you will need an assisted medical device – whether it’s your glasses, your contacts, or as you age and you have a hip replacement or a knee replacement or a pacemaker. The prosthetic generation is all around us.
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When I watch Mad Men and I see the patronising attitudes to women that are so shocking for all of us to watch now,
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And certainly, we have come far enough in our technology that our language can evolve, because it has an impact.
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It’s about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It’s about being balanced.
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You feel impacted by not having it. It’s an important part of your daily function and what you can do in a day.
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If we want to discover the full potential in our humanity, we need to celebrate those heartbreaking strengths and those glorious disabilities that we all have.
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Success means doing as excellent a job as you can on that particular day. The people I admire most aren’t necessarily the most wonderful athletes.
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I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness… their ‘disability.’
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If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
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The idea of prosthetics is a tool. Most people’s cell phones are prosthetics. If you leave your cell phone at home.
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For me, I never ever felt the ownership or any identity with any community of disabilities. I didn’t grow up being told that I was a disabled child.
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