Jonathan Brownlee Quotes
I was good at swimming until everyone started to grow. The best swimmers are really tall with great big shoulders, and that just isn't us. But then a big, powerful swimmer isn't going to be so good on the bike and the run.
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I try very hard to handle things equally: ideas, materials, and images.
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So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life.
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The years go so fast. I mean, I just realized that at the end of the year I will be twenty-two, and I just turned twenty-one.
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'Free State of Jones' went beyond that. It got into how the South wasn't as homogenous as we thought it was - or even the North for that matter, where we like to assume everyone wanted to free the slaves and they were all abolitionists. It actually shows how complex these ideologies were on both sides.
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What I like about Oxford is how small it is; it's really more of a big town than a city.
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I have no regrets at all. I have done quite well for myself. I didn't have a conventional face, but I have done well, and I am proud of it.
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People are really paying attention to the comic-book genre, and there's a lot of time and attention being invested in these projects with a wonderful sense of quality control.
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Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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I have been the victim of heartless malice.
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I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pretentious minor noblemen they were reading about.
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After working so hard on the court, I find that snacks help me avoid late-afternoon energy lows.
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If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.
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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.
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I grew up really poor and have always been the type of person who will work earlier or work harder or more than the other person to even the playing field.
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You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
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You don't choose your public; your public chooses you.
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The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.
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People wouldn't know this about me, but I adore ball gowns. I love their cut, their architecture and the thought of the hands of so many seamstresses working on them.
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Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.
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It's hard sometimes because people don't take a model seriously in any sense. Unless she's taking a photo, that's as good as she is.
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[T]he small is great, the great is small; all is in equilibrium in necessity.
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The most important point to remember in developing self-confidence is to take responsibility for who we are. This empowers us. We can change anything, do anything, and be anything when we assume full responsibility for ourselves.
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I was good at swimming until everyone started to grow. The best swimmers are really tall with great big shoulders, and that just isn't us. But then a big, powerful swimmer isn't going to be so good on the bike and the run.
