Marion Jones Quotes
I was only 24 then, but 18 of those 24 years had been dedicated to wanting to get to that moment.
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The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
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I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.
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Television is more of a business. You can't take as many risks, because there's so many channels now, and the advertising's dropping.
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I think lots of ideas are sometimes in our heads without us quite, you know, knowing it.
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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
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I'm not an expert on the arms race.
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The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media.
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There's no question that the gay movement would not be as far along as it is without AIDS. But how can there be any other issue in the face of death, possible extinction?
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The Teenage Cancer Trust does incredible work supporting and caring for teenagers and young adults with cancer, and it's a cause that is really close to me and my family.
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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.
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In space, you need to exercise your heart since it's not pumping blood around at the same rate.
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It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer.
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I always wanted to be an actress. It's been very high up on my list of passions, and I did a couple of short courses, and I've studied at school.
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In terms of number of movies, I've been in an extraordinary amount. If you count only the minutes I'm onscreen, it's not so long.
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Stand-up comedians say that anyone in the audience can be funny, but people paid to see us because we're just a little bit funnier. In the same way, I think anybody can play music - in fact, I think everyone has music in them, but some of us can do it a little better.
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There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America - there's the United States of America.
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While I know that Twitter is doing just fine with or without my 140-character contributions, I also know that people are fickle, and when using something becomes too annoying, they stop.
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All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
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Patience is emotional diligence.
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If you see a bandwagon, it's too late.
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I love horror comedies, and I love horror movies. In particular, I love horror movies from the '80s that have practical monsters in them. They're not just slasher movies with people going to kill people in people's houses. Although I do like 'The Last House on the Left,' and things like that, I do like these ridiculous monster movies.
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I write easily, let's put it that way. And in a novel particularly, the characters take over. And they tell me what to say and they tell me what they're doing. And I'm a third of the way into a novel and then I just let the characters finish it for me.
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I was only 24 then, but 18 of those 24 years had been dedicated to wanting to get to that moment.
