Summer Sanders Quotes
I'm not the athlete I was when I was training for the Olympics in '92 or when I was working out every single day. I have to live in moderation: I work out three or four days a week, and I smile while I'm working out - I really do enjoy it. I work out with my girlfriends and make it a social competition.
Quotes to Explore
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The biggest challenge we all face is to learn about ourselves and to understand our strengths and weaknesses. We need to utilize our strengths, but not so much that we don't work on our weaknesses.
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I resent that there is an image of perfection that is getting thinner and thinner. I've got a lovely husband and children, and I didn't lose weight to find those things.
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My way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill.
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People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
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The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'
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A community having the breadth and scope of a people still cannot claim to be an ethnic community unless and until there emerges from its mentality a distinctive culture particularized by the community's special character.
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I love listening to pop radio.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.
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When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.
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My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.
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You can't do every movie - although I do a lot of them - and the thing I'm longing to do is... it's not that I think I'm funny... but I long to do a situation comedy.
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I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off.
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I don't get hung up on weight.
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During my twenties and thirties, my interest in the political poem increased as my apparent access to it declined. I sensed resistances around me. I was married; I lived in a suburb; I had small children.
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Successful people are not interesting. I feel for the losers. That's where my heart lies.
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It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.
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Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.
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It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
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My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too rigidly.
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Be able to meet any deadline, even if your work is done less well than it would be if you had all the time you would have preferred.
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A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.
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I'm not the athlete I was when I was training for the Olympics in '92 or when I was working out every single day. I have to live in moderation: I work out three or four days a week, and I smile while I'm working out - I really do enjoy it. I work out with my girlfriends and make it a social competition.
