Paula Radcliffe Quotes
I've been to three Olympics and I don't feel I've ever quite achieved my best at any of them.
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I think why I was attracted to making something with Vice is that level of intimacy that you get as the viewer, getting to see some of that production element where we don't exactly know what we're doing, where we're going, or even if it's a good idea.
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I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more - that I control my life.
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Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.
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I went to this little performing arts school in downtown Phoenix. You had to dance or act, and everyone sang in choir. I started out playing the saxophone, but I always wanted to be in an orchestra. That was a dream as a kid, and there aren't a lot of saxophones in an orchestra.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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I never try to follow a trend or fashion.
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Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.
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I rolled up my sleeves and said, 'I want to make a mark on this world.'
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I like to get suggestions on what to read. I'll look at Twitter, people I like, people I admire... I'll go and research the book, download it on my phone and read it while I'm on the road.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
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When you see the audiences and the smiling faces at the shows it really makes up for the work that you put in. I have a job I really love so whatever hecticness comes up - I'll just deal with it.
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I just went to an acting agency one day and just said, 'I would like to act. Would you take me?' And they took me.
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I'm an emotional person.
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I like to do my own make-up.
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I like seeing advanced acrobatics, but I also like to see more than tumbling. It's important to combine the artistry of gymnastics with the tough skills. It's called artistic gymnastics. We should stand by the name.
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We are a total of our sum parts, right? I came from a family of very strong women - black women. And if I go back as far as my great grandmothers, there was always that love and the ability to be nurturing. Then I grew up in a household where my father was the one who was more affectionate with me.
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99.5 percent of the people that walk around and say they are a social media expert or guru are clowns. We are going to live through a devastating social media bubble.
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There's nothing I'd rather do than sort of, you know, sit at my computer and rhyme.
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Few people know that I love local dhaba food. It is the best!
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I was always the weirdo at school.
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This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
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I've been to three Olympics and I don't feel I've ever quite achieved my best at any of them.
