Genzebe Dibaba Quotes
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd.
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Everyone fears the cut of the blade. It doesn't matter after that. I know the spirit survives as there is so much evidence of the survival of the personality in the afterlife.
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I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat.
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It was very difficult when I was trying to figure out how to have a marriage and babies and do this at the same time. There was no handbook. You were making it up as you went along.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's funny when people say, 'Did so-and-so teach you how to walk?' And I always say, 'You must be talking about my mother, because it was my mother who taught me how to walk.'
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I used to sail a lot in all kinds of weather, competing on small sailboats in the ocean. And I travel a lot in Iceland on horses every summer, through the wild areas where there's no inhabitants and there are volcanoes.
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If I buy a game on Steam and I'm running it on Windows, I can go to one of the Steam machines and already have the game. So you benefit as a developer; you benefit as a consumer in having the PC experience extended in the living room.
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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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I feel the audience are friends that have come to see us. That was always how we look on it in the Carter Family. I've never suffered stage fright.
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I dedicated my 20s, my passion and energy to the name 'Rain.' I always did my best, and I thought if I did, it would eventually show, and even if it didn't turn out well, I wouldn't have any regrets.
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I don't think you'll ever be happy about anything unless you've done it.
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Hi, I'm Nadine Velazquez, and my green tip is: recycle.
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What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.
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For everyone I know who is a writer, there was some awkward time in their lives when they had to learn to call themselves one.
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Because were were both probationary constables, an experienced PC had been left to supervise us - a responsibility he diligently pursued from an all-night cafe on St. Martin's Close.
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So many poems you go into and come up empty.
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The four rules of writing... 1. Write to discover. 2. There is no greater discovery than love. 3. All love comes from the Creator. 4. Write what you will.
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I'm the first from Ethiopia getting 1500-meter world record; that is amazing.
