Hilary Swank
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"Hilary Ann Swank" is an American actress and producer. She has won two Academy Awards for Academy Award for Best Actress/Best Actress and has received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2007.

Swank made her film debut in a minor role for Buffy the Vampire Slayer (film)/Buffy the Vampire Slayer, before she made her breakthrough role/breakout lead role in the fourth installment of the The Karate Kid franchise, The Next Karate Kid in 1994. On television, she was cast as part of the main cast in the Beverly Hills, 90210 (season 8)/eighth season of the drama series Beverly Hills 90210 as single mother Carly Reynolds from 1997 to 1998. Swank garnered critical acclaim for her portrayal of Brandon Teena in the 1999 biographical independent film/independent film Boys Don't Cry (film)/Boys Don't Cry, which earned her the Academy Award for Best Actress and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama. She starred in Clint Eastwood's 2004 sports drama film Million Dollar Baby as struggling-waitress-turned-boxer Maggie Fitzgerald, which won her a second Oscar and Golden Globe for Best Actress.

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In terms of property damage, ... the estimate is at least $26 billion in insured losses and perhaps twice that in uninsured losses over a 90,000-square-mile area - approximately the size of Kansas.

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I had to fight my whole life to break out.

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I used the subway all the time. It's my form of transportation, ... because it's quick. It's inexpensive.

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I could do half a pull-up when I first started training, ... I literally, I tried to pull myself up, and I was shaking. And I couldn't do it. And I couldn't believe it. I thought, you know, and as a kid, you had, doing pull-ups and stuff. And then when I was done, I could do 11.

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[She didn't tell Eastwood what had happened.] I didn't tell Clint, because in the end, that's what happens to boxers, ... They get blisters, they get infected. They have injuries and they keep pushing through it.

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I don't know what I did in this life to deserve all of this [on winning an Oscar 2005].

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Being a teenager was a horrid time.

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I don't know what I did in this life to deserve all of this. I'm just a girl from a trailer park who had a dream.

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