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I just got addicted to getting better. My coach gave me a goal to get a tip dunk in a game - you know, a putback dunk off a rebound. I had never done that. He told me that he'd get me a pair of new shoes if I did it. I just kept trying. I couldn't get it, couldn't get it, couldn't get it. It took me a year or so. Finally, one game, I got it. Steven Adams

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You don't really get to witness what athletes go through. Like, the sacrifices and stuff like that. It's by far the most amazing, beautiful thing. Steven Adams

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My head is weirdly shaped, so I can't wear a headband. Steven Adams

Wear Shaped Head Weirdly

I was upset about getting $40 haircuts, like, every month. That's a lot of money, and so, man, that's a lot of food. That's a waste. No more. So I'm, like, letting it go so I have more food. My budget's good for food now. Steven Adams

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I got a lot of restaurants I like to eat at, smash out some food. Steven Adams

Food Out Restaurants Eat Some Smash Like Got Lot

My brothers bullied me, so I cried a lot as a kid. It was the only defense I had. Telling them to stop wouldn't work. The crying would bring my dad. Dad was my cavalry. Steven Adams

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Al Jefferson. One-on-one on the post, man, can't guard him. Steven Adams

Man Post Guard One-On-One Him Jefferson Al

All in all, we'll just do well as a team. We've got a great group of guys, and they're just willing to work. That's what I like being around, just dudes who want to enjoy it and just work really hard. Steven Adams

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What's being considered now is solidifying my place in the NBA. Keep focusing on the grass roots, because I want the next guys to be good. Right now, all I'm doing for camps and academies and stuff, I'm just finding the next NBA player. Steven Adams

You kind of did fight for food, so I filled up my plate. My dad would make us finish it, and I'd sit there crying because I'd have to finish all that food. I think that forced my stomach to stretch. Steven Adams

I don't pay attention to Australia, mate. Steven Adams

Pay Pay Attention Attention Mate Australia

Of course cake is not bread. Is this why Americans are fat? You confuse cake with bread? Steven Adams

You Cake Confuse Course American Bread Why Fat

New Zealand has better food - sorry, America. Steven Adams

Food Better Sorry New America New Zealand Zealand

The truth is that I am enslaved... in one vast love affair with 70 children. Sylvia Ashton-Warner

Love Truth Truth Is Enslaved Vast Am Affair Love Affair Children

I am my own Universe, I my own Professor. Sylvia Ashton-Warner

Own Universe My Own Am Professor

I've got to relearn what I was supposed to have learned. Sylvia Ashton-Warner

Supposed Learned Got

Love has the quality of informing almost everything - even one's work. Sylvia Ashton-Warner

Work Love Quality Everything Almost Almost Everything Informing Even

My favourite kind of comedy comes from the awkwardness of living, the stuff that makes you cringe but borders on tragic - that is more interesting to me. It resonates; it comes from emotional truth. Taika Waititi

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I like flawed characters, and I like seeing people who are supposed to be not villains but antagonists. There are elements to them, which are really annoying, but you kind of see where they came from. You see the things that caused those inadequacies. Taika Waititi

Maori get pigeonholed into the idea they're spiritual and telling stories like 'Whale Rider' and 'Once Were Warriors,' quite serious stuff, but we're pretty funny people, and we never really have had an opportunity to show that side of ourselves, the clumsy, nerdy side of ourselves, which is something I am. Taika Waititi

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I've always found the script to be more of a skeleton, the template. Taika Waititi

More Always Script Skeleton Found

I love heroes that really go through ordeals, and they come out the other end completely changed. Taika Waititi

Love Heroes Changed Other Out Through Come Go End Really

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