Sebastian Coe Quotes

Blink and you miss a sprint. The 10,000 meters is lap after lap of waiting. Theatrically, the mile is just the right length: beginning, middle, end, a story unfolding.

Sebastian Coe

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• My first car was an '84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, so that wasn't good at all. Dried leaves on the ground while I was trying to change the fuel pump. Don't do that. Do it on concrete.

  

  T-Pain
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Change

• I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Time
  • May
  • Training

• For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Free
  • Imagination
  • Someone

• But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • Character
  • Problem
  • Gambling

• Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Chance
  • Year
  • Birthday

• I am going to put money into education at the expense of other programs.

  

  Dalton McGuinty
  • Money
  • Education
  • Programs

• My dream was always to win in the Olympic Games, but I never set that next goal, and I have realised now I need to set another goal.

  

  Cameron van der Burgh
  • Dream
  • Goal
  • Win

• Family and God - that is what's important. Money, cars, those are things that come and go.

  

  Fabrice Muamba
  • God
  • Important
  • Family

• All students should have the opportunity to receive their high school diplomas and be fully prepared for college or the workplace.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • School
  • High
  • Opportunity

• What I know is the characters in a Southern town. I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long. And I know the neighborhoods, and I hopefully know the people, and I feel a connection to them. And I also feel like I'm honoring them when I talk about them.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Long
  • Language

• I would like to get a good education, get married, and have kids.

  

  Yana Kudryavtseva
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Education

• In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination.

  

  Irving Layton
  • Political
  • Leader
  • Canada

• I had a holiday job in a kitchen, but I think we'll draw a polite veil over that. There was nothing joyous or creative about it. And none of this helped my studies.

  

  Fergus Henderson
  • Job
  • Creative
  • Kitchen

• It's an interesting but useless bit of information that every single character in 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' wears a wig, and many of them wears a prosthetic - false ears, feet, hands. In my case, nose.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Single

• The actual producing, mixing, and mastering is hard work, harder than what I do.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Work
  • Hard
  • Hard Work

• I don't know how to play evil.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Know
  • Play
  • Evil

• As an actor, it is okay to fall and get up. Then you can give your best. Sometimes audiences don't receive it well, but you have to take it in the right sense. It is part and parcel of being in the industry.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Up
  • Fall
  • Best

• Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Good
  • Work

• I was the youngest of three kids, and from the age of four, singing was my way of getting attention.

  

  Pauline Matthews
  • Kids
  • Age
  • Attention

• My style is a little masculine, and what I loved about Pyer Moss was how well he can make a blazer, the looseness of those pants, or color palette that he chooses from season to season.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Style
  • Color
  • Masculine

• The entire time I was up shooting 'Suits,' I was running back to my trailer to help get 'Nine Circles' produced. It's a no-brainer for me to keep that part of life alive.

  

  Patrick J. Adams
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• That's the way this business works: if your movies do well at the box office, you will be offered more movies. It doesn't matter if you're a nice guy or you're a prick. If your movies do well, there's a job waiting for you in Hollywood. It's not any more complicated than that.

  

  Matt Damon
  • Business
  • Job
  • Guy

• I've always wanted to write comic books, my earliest memories are of waiting for Dad to come home from work, and, secreted in his lawyer's leather briefcase, would be comics from the store.

  

  Arvind Ethan David
  • Writing
  • Home
  • Book

• Blink and you miss a sprint. The 10,000 meters is lap after lap of waiting. Theatrically, the mile is just the right length: beginning, middle, end, a story unfolding.

  

  Sebastian Coe
  • Running
  • Waiting
  • Missing