Jade Jones Quotes
Because I am Olympic champion, everyone assumes I am this perfect athlete who should never lose. Every time I step in the ring, I am expected to win.
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I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.
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Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.
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I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.
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Best player I ever played against? I mean, I played against many, many good players, so I don't know who to keep. I would say Ronaldo the Fenomeno.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
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I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.
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Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.
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I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive.
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I've witnessed so many meetings and conferences where people are trying to figure out what young people think, and my feeling has consistently been that you should just ask them.
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I had an audition where Josh Brolin was pelting me with his personality. I didn't get the part.
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My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Women's Singles tennis champion in college.
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That's been the most exciting part of the show - incorporating the magic and the acrobats and the singing and dancing to make our 'Pippin.'
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I cannot sing Vampirella artist Patrick Berkenkotter's praises loudly or often enough.
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So, I have my own horse and two ponies. I grew up around horses, and that really is my passion.
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Every 20 minutes you've got to have a bump, you've got to have a change in course, you've got to unsettle the audience. It can't be too predictable so something has to happen. I think that was something that Hitchcock did very well too. You couldn't let an audience feel too settled in.
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I feel that whoever isn't feeling settled in their career won't think about their marriage.
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I think when I was younger, I strived for perfection. And now I strive for my imperfections because I think they're more interesting.
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For me, open source is a moral thing.
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I still cherish the memory of walking into the Parliament for the first time.
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A genuine sense of humor is having a light touch: not beating reality into the ground but appreciating reality with a light touch. The basis of Shambhala vision is rediscovering that perfect and real sense of humor, that light touch of appreciation.
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In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.
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Because I am Olympic champion, everyone assumes I am this perfect athlete who should never lose. Every time I step in the ring, I am expected to win.
