Ian Thorpe Quotes
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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Star Wars was magnificent, but you could tell Darth Vader's ships were glued together.
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I need to eat a lot; otherwise, I feel faint. I get in the worst moods if I don't eat.
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.
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Dear London, British fashion is a serious business. The British fashion industry is worth £21bn to the U.K. economy and employs 819,000 people across the country. With your help, we would like to see these numbers rise for the good of our industry, our talented designers, and our reputation worldwide.
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I guess I found it useful to realise that everything is true at once, you know? You can pull back and say, 'Everything will be fine,' but you can also be in a situation and say, 'Not everything is going to be fine.'
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Walking by water frees your creativity. I don't know how it works - there's something about it that's liberating.
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I'm past my wooing days now. See, I am an honest person. If I like a girl, I will go and tell her.
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I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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Most police officers are good cops and good people.
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Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.
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The worst is when I know I'm going to have to cry in a scene.
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I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present.
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And our dreams are who we are.
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I don't think any actor can be satisfied. I am still in the learning phase and hope I am always in the learning frame of mind in acting or in anything else that I do. That's what makes life interesting and worth living.
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I have a thing about underwear. I have to wear thongs. Since I was a showgirl in Las Vegas, and I was wearing G-strings all the time, I got this thing where I cannot stand to have on regular underwear. It drives me out of my mind.
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My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.
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Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.
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I'd started acting as a child. But I wanted to see if it was something my true personality was interested in. I stepped away from offers when I took five years off to go to college. I've only really just decided to whole-heartedly embrace acting.
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If you go through any culture that has had wars, go to the bomb shelters, and you'll hear some amazing stories. Yes, it's a necessary thing that we actually both distract ourselves and it's a way to bond.
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I thought I could, and thought I would, swim a lot quicker - much quicker.
