Jessica Ennis Hill Quotes
To be confident going out and performing, I need to be with my son for as long as possible; then I know I'm happy, and he's happy, and I can go out and put all my energy into performing.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.
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I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter, a proofreader, a mental-health-care provider, a substitute teacher, and a book reviewer. In and around the edges of all those jobs I have written poems, stories, and books, books, books.
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I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!
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No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
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I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.
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I did a movie called 'Quicksand No Escape' with Donald Sutherland and Tim Matheson. I think I was maybe 5. I was really little. Yeah, it was fun. And actually, Felicity Huffman played my mom.
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People appreciate and follow the person who can persuade them properly. Make that person you.
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I am an avid runner, mainly on weekends.
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Skating taught me to set a goal and to block out other things and just focus on this one thing.
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Everything I do is a reflection of the duality within me. Musically, I really love things that are very synthetic and unnatural. And I also like the organic and human... the intrinsic, I guess.
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The shining star in the world is Shanghai. That's what CEOs from big companies say - 'if I want mathematical analytical work done, it's done in China.'
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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
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I'm starting to realize that people are beginning to want to know about me. It's a jolly strange idea.
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To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason.
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Goals give us purpose, which, in turn, motivates us to make ourselves the best version in all aspects of your life.
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The world needs champions. Too many people still find the path to opportunity closed to them. Too many still find unnecessary obstacles to education, to housing, to the full and free exercise of the right to vote.
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I feel open to anything.
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I didn't just get to 75 years by tiptoeing. I had to work hard sometimes.
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My father was an engineer and my mother was a social worker, and they met as young socialists. That probably tells you everything you need to know about my attitude to money - I've never really been bothered about it.
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It's pretty challenging for large funds to spend the time and energy necessary to get a meaningful return when most of the wins coming out are perhaps below $100 million exits and the ones above are very few and far between.
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To be confident going out and performing, I need to be with my son for as long as possible; then I know I'm happy, and he's happy, and I can go out and put all my energy into performing.
