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“By using novels, I show ordinary kids confronting and overcoming great odds.”

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Author:Lurlene McDaniel

“In Blue Crush , we meet three Hawaiian surfers who work as hotel maids, live in a grotty rental, and are raising the kid sister of one of them. Despite this near-poverty, they look great; there is nothing like a tan and a bikini to overcome class distinctions.”

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Book:Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2005

Source: Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2005

“I can get motivated seeing a kid at my sons school overcome a learning disability.”

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Author:Jason Alexander

“I want to be a role model and I want to show kids that you can be strong and overcome adversity.”

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Author:Paula Creamer

“Swimming is great because there are levels of goals. First, when I was four, it was making it to the other end and overcoming the fear of standing up in front of everybody at a swim meet because I was such a shy kid.”

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Author:Summer Sanders

“To believe that your husband, wife, parents, kids, boss, job, bank account, or body is even partly responsible for your emotions, to think that there are bullets 'out there' that you have to contend with, that there are stressful life events to overcome, is to miss something vital.”

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Author:Andrew Bernstein

“I think it's just different to get married for a woman than it is for a man. The amount of work to overcome certain gender roles in the partnership - just the expectation of housework, kid-work, whatever it is.”

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Author:Alison Pill

“I think everybody has tragedy in their life. Everybody has hurdles in their life. Everybody has tough things to overcome. My kids say to me, 'This isn't fair.' I said, 'Life isn't fair.' Everybody has their issues. It's how you handle your issues that distinguishes you.”

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Author:Maria Shriver

“I am inspired by positive people who have overcome difficult obstacles, motivational/spiritual books, nature, and my kids.”

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Author:Andrea Navedo

“The hardest obstacle I've ever had to overcome is probably my first steps into adulthood: paying rent, groceries, cooking, taxes. I was so anxious to grow up, and now I'm wishing I was still a kid.”

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Author:Dillon Lane

“A lot of military people just take orders, and there is a place for that. But SEALs think for themselves from day one. That way, when something happens - a kid runs out of a room, a woman is held as a human shield - they can make those decisions on the fly. We always say: "Improvise, adapt and overcome."”

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Author:Howard E. Wasdin

“Unless we improve our ability to provide a quality education for underprivileged kids, we're not going to really overcome in a massive way our past.”

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Author:Condoleezza Rice

“The underdog is a person that's at-risk, a person that has a lot of big trials you have to overcome. I mean that was my life. Me - coming from a single parent home. I didn't have offers coming out of high school. So I had to really have faith and lean on Jesus for everything because nothing was given to me. I had to really work for everything. I'm definitely an underdog. I think Jesus made me be in that situation to be able to relate to more people. That's why give back to the at-risk kids.”

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Author:Chris Harris, Jr.

“A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexuality, and that breaks my heart, because they're going to have to - high school's hard enough to overcome. Middle school is hard enough to overcome when we get out of it. They say life is what you spend your time getting over because of high school, you know what I mean?”

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Author:Kristin Chenoweth