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I love the smell of freshly cut grass. It takes me back to summers in Maine.

Topics: Summer, Cutting, Smell, Take Me Back

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What woman doesn't want to go out there and kick some butt? I did it with a sword in 'Conan,' I did it with a crossbow in 'G.I. Joe,' and I've got my multi-tool and my super-suit in 'Continuum.' It's really a release, and it's quite cool.

source: - "Rachel Nichols Talks CONTINUUM, Humanity of 2077 vs. Humanity of 2012, and Where the Story Is Headed" by Christina Radish, collider.com. February 18, 2013.

Topics: Want, Suits, Tools, Conan, Crossbows

I love food. I mean, I really love food. I take pictures of my finest, funniest and most fascinating dishes, post them on Twitter, and send them to friends. I treat menus like classic literature, refusing to skip even one word. I read the description of every item, regardless of whether or not I'm interested in eating it.

Topics: Mean, Literature, Classic, I Love Food, Menus

I love dessert. All kinds. But there's something about ice cream that makes me happy. I am drawn to its simplicity. I am perplexed by the endless supply of constantly growing flavor options. And I am always in the mood for sprinkles and a sugar cone.

Topics: Ice Cream, Simplicity, Flavor, Cones, Perplexed

I know my football. And I adore football players. The crashing noise of a tackle, the huddle grunting, and the roar of the crowd are music to my ears.

Topics: Football, Player, Ears

I have smelled some very famous and undoubtedly sexy boys. And sometimes, as cute as they are, I'd rather have them as a friend - just because of the way they smell!

Topics: Cute, Sexy, Boys

I have an insatiable palate. I'll try anything once, with an open mind. However, there is a special place in my heart for Kraft Macaroni & Cheese. Don't get me wrong, I've sampled specialty Mac & Cheese all over the world, but nothing competes with the stuff I grew up on.

Topics: Heart, Mind, Trying, Palate, Macaroni

How come I love having an episode of deja vu? It's akin to an out-of-body experience, I would think. It sits with me, happily, begging me to delve into my memory to find its match point.

Topics: Memories, Thinking, Body, Deja Vu, Match Point

How come foreign accents are so sexy? If I say, 'I'm going to the store,' it sounds boring, benign and rudimentary. But if it's said with an accent, it sounds fundamentally cool.

Topics: Sexy, Sound, Boring

History is fickle. We know that. The good and bad come around and go around, and go around again. There are recessions and depressions and economic boom and bust.

source: - Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Topics: Fickle, Economic, Good And Bad

Everything you've heard about Canadians apologizing profusely for things they shouldn't be sorry about is absolutely true. It is both sweet, endearing and worrisome at the same time. Having someone apologize for no reason actually makes me feel as though I should apologize for their need to apologize.

Topics: Sweet, Sorry, Needs

Don't get me wrong, I love watching episodes of my favorite shows on Hulu and reading the daily trash on PageSix, but I also embrace the opportunity to settle down with a good book and let my mind travel to another place and time.

Topics: Book, Reading, Opportunity, Place And Time

Apparently, despite my awareness of its pejorative connotation, procrastinating is something I fall victim to quite frequently. I'm not proud of it; I'm just being honest.

Topics: Fall, Proud, Just Being

'Alias' was very action-packed. 'G.I. Joe' and 'Conan' were very action-packed. It's been established that I can do action, which is great, but now I may just want to make out with a really hot guy.

Topics: Guy, May, Want, Make Out, Conan

I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?

Topics: Wine, Meals, Ends

I love stretching in the morning. It's the first thing I do when I wake up because getting a good back-crack is so extremely satiating. I feel taller when I finally stand.

Topics: Morning, Wake Up, Firsts

There's nothing I hate more than gritty, linty, mysterious pocket schmutz in the cap of my lip moisturizer - or, even worse, on the applicator itself. I shudder at the thought.

Topics: Hate, Lips, Pockets

So far, Vancouver is my favorite relocation city. It feels like home. Parts of it remind me of the east coast. It's very clean. The food is great. And the people are lovely. Not that I didn't love working in other glamorous locations like Downey, Detroit, Cleveland or Bulgaria... but, damn, it is fun to be Canadian.

Topics: Fun, Home, Cities, East Coast, Bulgaria

Sci-fi fans are awesome. They're very smart, they like to be involved, they like to ask questions. I've been asked questions I don't even know the answer to. I've never had any aggressive interactions. I've had lovely interactions.

Topics: Smart, Lovely, Answers

One of the great things about the sci-fi genre is that you can kind of get away with a bit more when talking politics, making social references or dealing with very hot-button topics because it is sci-fi.

Topics: Talking, Hot, Topics, Talking Politics

My house is filled with books, most of which I have read, some of which I intend to eventually get to. I'm always reading at least one work of fiction and one work of non-fiction simultaneously. Whatever mood I'm in, there's always a book nearby to suit it.

Topics: Book, Reading, House, Non Fiction

My first modeling job in Paris, the photographer said, 'Tue es belle,' which means, 'you are pretty,' and I thought he said, 'Tu es poubelle,' which means, 'you are the trash can.' I burst into tears. He was not happy about that.

Topics: Jobs, Mean, Paris, Belle, Trash Cans

Lets talk about the holidays, more specifically, consumption during the holidays. If it's true that 'We are what we eat,' most of us would be unrecognizable during the period that ranges from the night before Thanksgiving through that day in early January when everyone decides to return to the gym.

Topics: Holiday, Night, Return

I will openly admit that I've never really followed hockey. Given my New England upbringing, I have always adhered to the Celtics, Patriots, Red Sox, Bruins mantra of professional sports fandom, but hockey was definitely the lowest sport on the totem pole - even when the Bruins won the Stanley Cup.

Topics: Sports, Hockey, Fandoms, Stanley Cup, Professional Sports

I think that being read to every night is the reason why I was plowing through volume after volume of 'Nancy Drew' books all by myself by the time I reached the first grade. I loved stories. I loved the escape. I had a vivid imagination.

Topics: Book, Night, Thinking, Plowing, Vivid Imagination

I simply do not think that yelling, swearing, threatening or belittling will get you to the place you want to be faster than kindness, understanding, patience and a little willingness to compromise.

Topics: Kindness, Thinking, Yelling

I remember thinking that people were crazy for reading the same book more than once, but I now have a new-found appreciation for the re-discovery of literature. The lessons we learned from books in the school curriculum are reinvented and updated when we read as adults.

Topics: Appreciation, Crazy, Book, School Curriculum

I love the physicality side of roles, I really do, And when I get to do my own stunts, it's that much cooler. I'll do anything the production safety people will let me.

source: - Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Topics: People, Safety, Roles

Yes, I was the child who would sneak into her closet and read 'Nancy Drew' for hours after the designated 'lights out' time of night.

Topics: Children, Night, Light, Nancy Drew

Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?

Topics: Shopping, Luck, Wheels, Squeaky Wheel, Carts

I never pile a plate to the point where it overflows. I'd rather have a small plate with small portions and then get up for more if I'm still hungry.

Topics: Hungry, Plates, Portions

I love to personalize things. I love to make things my own. I like to name everything - from cars to iPhones to the socks I just lost.

Topics: Names, Iphone, Car

I love Bridget Fonda.

I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.

Topics: Growing Up, Thinking, Laughing, Braces

I have been known to go to the grocery store and just buy pepperoni. There's just something fantastic about salty, fatty meats.

Topics: Meat, Fantastic, Groceries, Fatty, Salty

I have a lot of Twitter rules. I never swear on Twitter, and if anybody's inappropriate, I block them. I have young followers.

Topics: Block, Followers, Inappropriate

I happen to be quite fond of staying out late and sleeping the day away.

Topics: Sleep

I don't know how to cook, but I do know how to bake.

Topics: Cooks

I can never find a movie I want to watch, even though I've got hundreds to choose from.

Topics: Watches, Want

I am much more productive late at night because I have no one to look to for entertainment aside from myself.

Topics: Night, Entertainment, Looks

I always knew I'd go back to school. Modeling was a means to an end, making money for graduate school.

Topics: School, Mean, Graduates

I adore anything Michael Alexis writes.

Topics: Writing, Adore, Alexis

I normally work out six days a week. I'll do Pilates on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, and I'll do cardio on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.

Topics: Friday, Monday, Work Out, Cardiovascular Exercise

I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.

Topics: Car, Extravagance, Expenses

Um... Bulgaria is an interesting country. The people are lovely. There are potholes the size of small planets.

source: - "Comic-Con 2011 Exclusive: Rachel Nichols Talks CONAN THE BARBARIAN, Comic-Con, Girl Fights, and the other Rachel Nichols". Interview with Bill Graham, collider.com. July 23, 2011.

Topics: Country, Interesting, People, Potholes, Bulgaria

The list of problems that we all experience may be endless, but I honestly cannot abide by the rule that, 'He who yells louder is heard.'

Topics: May, Lists, Problem

People ask me about fighting in real life and, honestly, it wouldn't look as graceful as it does in film and TV.

Topics: Real, Fighting, People

I've always enjoyed doing dishes. Maybe it was the fashionable yellow gloves that I loved so much. It's weird, I know, but I find cleaning cathartic.

Topics: Yellow, Gloves, Cleaning

I'm obsessed with making lists.

Topics: Lists, Obsessed

I'd like to think, if I was ever in a fight, I'd win, although I'd probably run in the opposite direction.

source: - "Rachel Nichols Talks ALEX CROSS, How She Got Involved, Playing Strong Women, Fight Training with Her Co-Stars and Matthew Fox’s Transformation". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 19, 2012.

Topics: Running, Fighting, Thinking

I'd like to do a little bit more adventurous TV. Maybe Showtime or HBO or just a little bit edgier. But I would go back to NBC, CBS, whatever.

Topics: Hbo, Nbc, Littles, Showtime

I'd like to do a comedy, actually. I think it would be great to do a sitcom or something like that. I'm pretty much open to anything.

Topics: Thinking, Would Be, Comedy

I used to hate working out - until I learned how to do it properly.

Topics: Hate, Work Out, Used

I thought that I'd have a briefcase-and-power-suit career.

Topics: Careers, Suits, Briefcases

I strongly believe that good books are the best home accessory.

Topics: Book, Believe, Home

I started dealing with weapons on the first show I ever did, 'The Inside,' but I didn't really do any physical stuff until 'Alias.'