Laura Trott Quotes
I am very superstitious. I trod on a wet towel before winning the Junior World Championships, and now I have to do that every time.
Quotes to Explore
-
The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.
-
Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: You have to learn the rhythms of respiration - acquire the pace. Otherwise you stop right away.
-
I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.
-
We're living at a time where if you do a Google search for a 'show, review and network,' you'll get 'The New York Times' and Pete Billingsley from a town you've never heard of on the same results page. It's kind of democratizing the process so that everyone has access to a distribution system to express themselves.
-
Just because a rapper is white, I don't feel the need to attack them.
-
I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
-
A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
-
Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
-
I play on the left hand side, and I try to do the best I can.
-
I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.
-
I wanted to be a rock star when I grew up, or at least a singer/songwriter.
-
'Dhruva' will have them glued to their seats throughout, and I'm sure of that.
-
I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
-
I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'
-
I'm the youngest of five – three girls and two boys. There was one record player for the seven of us. It was good for me, because I got to hear everyone else's music.
-
Now, they hold the World Cup every year, so it's like any Super Series. It's boring. To me, it's very boring. I think the players will always attend the World Cup. But for the fans, and also for most players, the Olympics and Asian Games will become more important. Nobody will look forward to the World Cup with anticipation.
-
The general belief is that communists in the United Nations come only from the Iron Curtain countries, but this isn't so. We must remember that many of the representatives of free countries are members of the local Communist parties. If you add them all up, you will see they have an amazing degree of control.
-
I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father.
-
I want you to hear a new version of Dueling Banjos. Anyone else is welcome.
-
I have high expectations of my audience, and in general, I would say they've met that.
-
I have three stepfamilies as well as my family of origin. I've had to adjust to them and also go back and forth among them. I became an observer of human nature because when you are in those situations you have to be.
-
The paper burns, but the words fly away.
-
Steve was among the greatest of American innovators - brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it...The world has lost a visionary. And there may be no greater tribute to Steve's success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented.
-
I am very superstitious. I trod on a wet towel before winning the Junior World Championships, and now I have to do that every time.
