Sebastian Coe Quotes
Quite simply the Games are the biggest opportunity sport in this country has ever had. It is one that we must not squander.
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But, I don't know, the violence, I can't even talk about. We don't do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking a pencil was a violent act.
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My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very young, but only for a brief while. I don't think she had a great teacher. In any case, neither of them were really into music at a young age.
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All training is negotiation, whether you're training dogs or spouses.
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I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.
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I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.
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I'm not sure if I want to continue to work when I have kids.
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I'll admit, sometimes I've paid the bills with acting. You know the phrase, 'It's one for the money, two for the showreel.' I don't want that as a director. I don't want to compromise myself. There's a big old wide world out there. I want to explore it.
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I never want to have to ask my husband for money. Never! That's incomprehensible to me. Would he have preferred that I change my name? Probably. But that's OK!
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There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.
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To me, being in your prime means playing your best and feeling your best, too.
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Myself, I really like the iPad mounted as a frame, with a happy slideshow cycling through.
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You can tell when someone is putting on a role. If someone really believes in what they're saying, it's quite hard to find cracks.
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While I did not get any formal training in acting, every summer vacation, from the age of five, my father would take me to Ooty with him, and I would do films as a child star. I did over 10 films like that, and it was understood that post finishing my education, I would become an actor.
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I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it's a better way of telling the stories.
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If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
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The restaurant chefs in Spain are breaking ground, but in terms of the everyday cooking in Spain I still hear people coming back and saying they were disappointed. I think it's because they're expecting the chef stuff.
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I'm pretty good at sticking to what I know. You don't see me social commentating on health-care or presidential debates. I talk about what I know because I'm petrified of being wrong.
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I'm very open about the fact that it's nice when someone says you're pretty. Especially for someone like me.
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I was living out a parallel situation in my own life, ... feeding frenzy.
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I'm so grateful that I was raised by a mother who really instilled in me that my moral compass and achievements all had to come from a real place that had nothing to do with my beauty or how I looked. That was very big for her.
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We have to give people dreams; we have to give people hope. In terms of government, in terms of society, that's our goal. You can't have a group of people that don't dream, that see themselves as dead or in jail.
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Though I was not a belligerent kid, I do not think I ever passed up a good opportunity to fight.
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'The melancholy of all things done' is the way Buzz once described his complete mental breakdown after returning from the moon. Booze. A couple of divorces. A psych ward. Broke. At one point he was selling cars.
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Quite simply the Games are the biggest opportunity sport in this country has ever had. It is one that we must not squander.
