Ilya Ilyin Quotes
A weightlifter should be able to do everything and borrow things from other sports to beat competitors.

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It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.
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I am supposed to set an example to young players.
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My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off.
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Stars arrive on their own timetable.
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There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.
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For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
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I remember my very first audition for a film. I was in Seattle. They were taping the session, and I just went crazy. The director finally said, 'Zoe, what are you doing? The camera's right here. Just talk to me.' And it took that director saying that to me to change everything.
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I haven't listened to much music lately; I've been out of it.
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An estimated 7 million illegal immigrants were residing in the United States in January 2000. This is double the size of the illegal immigrant population in January 1990 and constitutes 2.5 percent of the total U.S. population of just over 281 million.
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We, too, must change as circumstances evolve.
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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I have always looked up to Adele and Christina Aguilera as singers ever since I was very young, and now my favorite male singer is Hozier.
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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I remember the general anxiety of teenager, and I remember establishing some sort of appearance based on what my peers would think. And cliques, oh my God, the worst. The worst!
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I'm certainly relishing the idea of living a century. Can you imagine that? What an achievement.
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I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds.
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I've also become much more the musician I've always wanted to be.
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I definitely did not like my body when I first started sports. I didn't like my body just in general as a teenager. Being a girl and a teenager with two prosthetic legs and two hands that were misshapen that had so much reconstructive surgery on them, I thought my world was over - put a zit on top of that, and then my life is completely over.
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These days the temptation to use steroids in sports has become too great for many young athletes.
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I went seven years between 2002 and 2009 without winning. Then I did win in '09.
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I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now.
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A weightlifter should be able to do everything and borrow things from other sports to beat competitors.