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"I think if anyone tells you the odds are slim, just keep walking. Just do whatever the hell you want to do, because they don't know what they're talking about. When you love something, and you work really really hard at it, you can do it."
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Source: Melissa McCarthy Goes Over the Top by Dave Itzkoff, www.nytimes.com. June 13, 2013.
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