A Quote by Jessica Lynch
The nurses at the hospital tried to soothe me, and they even tried unsuccessfully at one point to return me to Americans.
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I don't think I've ever tried to be something that I'm not. People do that for you. People try to pigeonhole you. People tried typecasting me, before they even saw me in anything else. I've never understood that. I was like, "Why don't you wait until my next project, before you start telling my what my career is going to look like, for the next 10 years?" I've never let it set me back because I always knew the world would try to do that for me, anyway.
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