Gail Devers Quotes
I never read my press when I was competing. I never got caught up in what I was doing at that moment.Gail Devers
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When I was maybe 22, 23 years old or so, I was sort of floating in between New Japan, Ring of Honor, TNA - not really committed to one place.
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I worked on the line, I've been an executive chef, I've worked for the Mets, I've worked for various steakhouses, vegetarian restaurants, a lot of Middle Eastern stuff. I've worked my fair share of a lot of different things. I've worked at festivals and street fairs, you know? I've been through it all.
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I love clothes but I have spent so much of my professional life creating an image of one kind or another that it is nice not to care about it in life and let your skin breathe.
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The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.
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If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
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Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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I don't want to be a director, or to have responsibility for hundreds of people.
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Of course you want to be good and you want to do the best you can, but I am inspired by great writing. If there's something about the script, that's what I go for, although I know that that doesn't always translate because sometimes it's about the vision of the director.
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Prohibition didn't work in the Garden of Eden. Adam ate the apple.
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Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.
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If Adele's seen as boring, then I'm happy to be boring as well.
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Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.
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How friendly all men would be one with another, if no regard were paid to honour and money! I believe it would be a remedy for everything.
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The BAFTAs give the British point of view, and the Oscars give the American point of view, but the truth is we're all working in an international industry.
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I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.
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I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.
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Societies need rules that make no sense for individuals. For example, it makes no difference whether a single car drives on the left or on the right. But it makes all the difference when there are many cars!
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My mother had been a Latin teacher, and she was always very fascinated with words. She and I shared books and responded to them.
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Most of us are not really approaching the subject in order to find out what Christianity says; we are approaching it in the hope of finding support from Christianity for the views of our own party.
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I feel the first award any artist can have is his audience.
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I look at light as a material. It is physical. It is photons. Yes, it exhibits wave behavior, but it is a thing.
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I never read my press when I was competing. I never got caught up in what I was doing at that moment.
Gail Devers
