Gail Devers Quotes
We go old-school during the summer, like swimming or setting up lemonade stands. I try to teach my kids to make their own fun.Gail Devers
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You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.
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I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.
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Well, I was a big fan of the book and therein a huge fan of the girl Precious. And so I felt like I knew this girl. I felt like I'd grown up alongside her. I felt like she was in my family. She was my friend and she was like people I didn't want to be friends with.
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Coco Chanel once said that what makes a woman look old is trying desperately to look young. Why should one be ashamed to be 84? Why do you have to say that you're 52? Nobody's going to believe you anyway, so why be such a fool? It's nice that you got to be so old. It's a blessing.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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Self-doubt kills talent.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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It's great to play someone who's so unafraid of being who she is.
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Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.
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My knee has always given me problems. But it got to the point where I actually had to start giving up things. And I hate that.
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Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
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I have five horses. My first was a professional jumper named Santos. I got him when I was 18.
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Music continues to remind me that its boundaries are limitless.
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I like films to be pure cinema, but I also like them to provide a snapshot of a family, a society or a character - something that can nourish you as a human being as well as an actor.
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I just want to try writing for other people 'cause it's quite exciting.
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It comes down to something really simple: Can I visualize myself playing those scenes? If that happens, then I know that I will probably end up doing it.
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He was not so anxious to prove himself right, as to be so.
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Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne made very good money from both 'Insidious' movies. Word travels fast, so as soon as you have a success and do what you say you're going to do in a contract and pay out that money, we had a lot more established actors come to us and say they want to work with us.
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The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.
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We go old-school during the summer, like swimming or setting up lemonade stands. I try to teach my kids to make their own fun.
Gail Devers
