Insider odcinek 1
Strongest Social Player :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKu2W33VL74
Elyse feels that she is the best social player, which will help her win the game
"I'm Elyse, I'm 27 years old, I live in fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada, and I work as a dance performer, managing a group of dancers performing in nightclubs."
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"Managing a group of dancers is a very interesting job. It's unique for sure. I liken it to my experience cheerleading in college. You deal with a lot of very egocentric people who are always on their own schedules and always have their own emergency. I tell them all the time that their urgency is not my emergency. They can be a little flaky, a little flighty, but they're so much fun, they're certainly beautiful, and they're very talented."
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"Go-go dancing in Vegas doesn't exactly serve as a great prerequisite (laughs) to being on Survivor as far as the survival aspect is concerned. I don't have a great flashy background in outdoorsman activities, or even being particularly outdoorsy. In fact, the only thing I'm hedging my bet on working my advantage is I grew up on an Indian reservation - I'm Native American - so I'm hoping somehow, along the way, by osmosis (laughs), my knowledge of the land and Mother Earth will somehow kick in, because I don't have that knowledge right now."
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"I have a very unique background. I'm 4 equal parts Japanese, German, Native American, Hispanic. Each of my grandparents is from a different culture and each battled racism and adversity in their own way when they were young people as well. I identify most strongly with my Native American heritage, having grown up on a reservation, being a big part of cultural activities as a child. My ethnic background has become a very big way for me to I guess identify myself just generally. A lot of their people think of their family and say, 'Oh I'm Italian,' or, 'Oh, my family's Russian,' and it doesn't mean a whole lot to them. My background is a huge part of who I am because it gave my parents and my grandparents all the skills and aptitudes they had to be driven, and successful people which in turn made me into a driven, focused person."
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"I think it's fair to say that I come across definitely as a girly girl. I'm not the kind of person who is going to wow you on the first day on the beach and show you I'm actually this amazing Olympic swimmer athlete female. Definitely not who I am. At the same time, yeah, I love all the luxuries of life. I miss my condo on Las Vegas Boulevard, on the 37th floor, looking down on the rest of the world. But I'm not afraid to get dirty, I'm not afraid of a challenge. In fact, my family's reaction to me pursuing this endeavor was completely, '<sputter> You think you're going to go out and survive? You who can't go an hour without her cell phone or a half an hour without a diet coke or skinny vanilla latte?' I'm the kind of person who, when I want something, I want it. Tell me I can't, and then I really want it. So it just strengthened my resolve."
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"I don't feel at all like I'm in over my head. At first the idea kind of startled me. Do I really want to take myself out of my regular life, do I really want to see if I can take the makeup off, and wear my dirty clothes, and not have my own three-bedroom, three-bathroom condo (laughs), with all the luxuries of life. And I decided I absolutely want to find out who I am, underneath all of that, if for no other reason than to tell all those people, the naysayers in my life who went, '<sputter> You?" 'Yeah. Me. Don't ask for money when I win a million dollars.' That's what I wanna say."
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"I know that I can win this. I think that has to do with my confidence in myself as a player in the challenges, because I'm athletic and always have been. I may not be the strongest player or the strongest woman on the team, physically, but I'm very agile and very quick and very good at a lot of the things the challenges require you to be good at. Delegating, being a part of a team, the logic and the puzzle aspect of it. On the other side, I'm confident I'm the strongest person here in social game. I'm not here to manipulate, I'm not here to backstab, I'm not here to induce drama or make people hate each other or turn against each other, but at the end of the day, because of my life experience and background, I'm so comfortable with myself, and so comfortable in getting to know other people, that I have a lot of faith in my ability to trust the right people. I know that's gonna be what gets me to the end, not backstabbing and not undercutting other people, but knowing the right ones to trust, because at some point I'll have to trust somebody."
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"I've thought about my strategy and what it will be from the getgo. Ultimately it's to be my own person, all the time. I'm in the game, all the time, to be true to myself and who I am, all the time. Quirky, clumsy, silly and laughing. That's kind of me all the time. That's who I'm going to be, from the minute we get started, to the very end of the game."