Jesse Owens Quotes
I let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible. From the air, fast down, and from the ground, fast up.
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I studied Morse code.
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As a mom, you do what you have to do without even thinking about it.
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You can't be around Oprah and not have her influence you, and I don't mean that because she's doling out the free advice. I mean it because she is someone that leads with truth and follows her heart. She's a force.
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Owing to the fact that leaders in the women's groups made a point of serving on the jury here whenever they were called, we have always had an unusually high type of women represented on the jury.
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Fall into your sentences; enjoy writing them. Love the world you are creating.
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When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.
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Something that's very painful for me is when people wear pants that are too short.
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My lifestyle had made me a walking time bomb.
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There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.
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I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket.
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If you never give up, you'll be successful.
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I once had a friend who did the hair for sci-fi movies, and after a particularly bad break-up I stupidly went to her salon and told her she could do anything she liked. She dyed the bottom cherry red and the top peroxide blonde.
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While I love musical theater, it wasn't the right fit for me. It's so competitive, and I was at such a disadvantage, having started performing when I was 17.
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I love 'First Wives Club' and 'Death Becomes Her' and movies about women like that.
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I've never seen a movement spread as fast as the fossil fuel divestment movement.
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I consider creativity to be a more non-rational, subconscious thing. You have a relationship to your creativity - you can feed it with content, with some rational prodding and sleep and things like that, but the mechanisms by which your creativity work are largely unknown.
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You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them.
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I want a baby from an Italian - possibly Sicilian - donor.
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I look back on my life and have to face the fact that I have been narcissistic and selfish.
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The longest way round is the shortest way home. (Quoting Alexander MacLaren, The Wearied Christ and Other Sermons)
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I always loved performing and being on stage.
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Everything is for the good in the end.
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For 'Hidalgo,' I just spent as much time around horses as I could, which made sense.
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I let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible. From the air, fast down, and from the ground, fast up.
