Simone Manuel Quotes

I want to be an inspiration, but I would like there to be a day when it is not 'Simone the black swimmer.'

Simone Manuel

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• If I can help and influence girls who are going through body-image issues then I think that's amazing.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Help
  • Amazing
  • Influence

• I'm an actress, not a pinup.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Actress

• Cornwall bears a certain resemblance to Italy: each is like a leg or boot, but Italy stands a-tiptoe to the south, whereas Cornwall is thrust out to the west. But, whereas Italy is kicking Sicily as a football, Cornwall has but the shattered group of the Scilly Isles at its toe.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Football
  • Group
  • Leg

• In high school and college, I did not have any Christian friends except my best friend Sarah, who I actually 'brought to Jesus.'

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • School
  • Friends
  • High

• A cat is never vulgar.

  

  Carl Van Vechten
  • Never
  • Cat
  • Vulgar

• My uncle was the first brown person to have a market stall on Petticoat Lane in the 1960s. He worked his way up from the street. He was homeless, but eventually he got a car so he could sell from the boot. And by the 1980s, he was a millionaire wholesaling to companies like Topshop. So in a way, fashion put me in England.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Up
  • Fashion
  • Car

• I play on the left hand side, and I try to do the best I can.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Play
  • Hand
  • Best

• What we want to do is put a price on greenhouse gases. Because if they're more expensive, businesses will find a way to be more efficient or switch to solar or hydro or wind power. So that will reduce emissions.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Power
  • Wind
  • Price

• I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Artist

• I've learned so many things from directors in my acting career. There are even some things I've learned that I didn't want to do. There are those directors who've really made me shine and others who've made me opaque.

  

  Valeria Golino
  • Career
  • Me
  • Acting

• If we have the intent to use the military only when needed, then that also becomes, then, therefore, a credible deterrent.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Military
  • Intent
  • Credible

• When it comes down to music, I have no balance. I am 100 percent. It is like full throttle. Five hundred miles an hour.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Balance

• I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Why
  • Hate
  • Look

• In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Own
  • Talk
  • Theater

• Most pieces take between two and three weeks and involve more than 40 people from the fabric cutters to the embroiders to the sewers. It's an elaborate undertaking.

  

  Naeem Khan
  • People
  • Two
  • Three

• I felt the pressure of imagination against the doors of my mind was so great that they were going to burst.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Imagination

• I eat a lot. I probably eat more than anybody that I know. I'll go on set and get a plate of bacon, a bagel, an omelet, boiled eggs, fresh fruit, oatmeal, fresh juice, potatoes, basically anything that's there. I don't mean that I alternate between these things. I'll eat all of this for breakfast.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Know
  • Breakfast
  • Fruit

• Part of the excitement of doing independent film is the complete unknown of what lies in store for the film's future.

  

  Rachel Miner
  • Future
  • Lies
  • Independent

• I think my life is often more interesting in the tabloids than it is in real life - or less; it depends. But I'm curious. I just try and see what they're going to make up next, and I try to just have fun with it and not take it all too seriously, because otherwise you can't function.

  

  Rachel Miner
  • Life
  • Up
  • Real

• Why should it be my loneliness, Why should it be my song, Why should it be my dream deferred overlong?

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Why
  • Dream
  • Song

• Contented, unambitious people are all very well in their way. They form a neat, useful background for great portraits to be painted against, and they make a respectable, if not particularly intelligent, audience for the active spirits of the age to play before. I have not a word to say against contented people so long as they keep quiet.

  

  Jerome K. Jerome
  • People
  • Great
  • Long

• I think women bring a different perspective and that we tend to be more collaborative in our approach. I served in the Iowa Senate back in the '90s, when there weren't a lot of us. At the time, I think there were five or six women, and two or three of them were Republicans and two or three were Democrats.

  

  Patty Judge
  • Time
  • Different
  • Women

• I want to be an inspiration, but I would like there to be a day when it is not 'Simone the black swimmer.'

  

  Simone Manuel
  • Want
  • Black
  • Inspiration