Cathy Freeman Quotes
I think the greatest amount of pressure is the pressure I place on myself. So in a way I chose to be alone.
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Most superhero characters we see these days are from foreign countries. I would like to play a superhero that shows off Korean power.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.
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I grew up listening to a lot of different types of music, and R&B in particular was something that I loved - Aaliyah, Usher, Alicia Keys, TLC.
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I was born and raised in Louisiana - a small town called Ferriday, north of Baton Rouge.
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I had been in a motorcycle accident and I'd been hurt, but I recovered. Truth was that I wanted to get out of the rat race. Having children changed my life and segregated me from just about everybody and everything that was going on. Outside of my family, nothing held any real interest for me and I was seeing everything through different glasses.
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'A pessimist is simply an optimist in full possession of the facts.'
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Apart from life, a strong constitution, and an abiding connection to the Thembu royal house, the only thing my father bestowed upon me at birth was a name, Rolihlahla.
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Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
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I think that people have a very strict perception of what a pop artist is.
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Learning how to be a good parent was easy in the end because I'd basically had the What Not To Do manual.
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I was in front of the goal so much at Stanford. I still amassed a lot of goals, but there were so many opportunities that I wasn't scoring.
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I was a Christian. I didn't want to have sex before marriage, I was a bit uptight and not very self-confident. I was a virgin until I was 26.
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I find significance in all kinds of small details when I run; I'm hyper aware of my surroundings, the sensations in my body, and the thoughts running through my mind. Everything is clearer, heightened.
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Usually, I think, every film I've made has been a book, and I've always read it.
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The inherited tradition is that we don't tell stories about slavery from the perspective of the slave. It's told through the president or the lawyer.
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I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting.
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We know what we are supposed to do and we don't want to do it, so we do the exact opposite anyway. And, it never goes well for us when we do that.
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My Irish Catholic mother loved romantic movies, provided they ended with a kiss before the screen went dark. If things went any further than that, she'd complain, Why can't they leave something to the imagination? I sort of subscribe to her philosophy when it comes to writing sex.
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In thinking back to when we had our big glitch, I remember seeing it get light outside the window. We were in the clouds; I'm pretty sure we got hit by lightning.
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If there has not been such a thing as gymnastics, I would have had to invent it because I feel at one with the sport.
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I think the greatest amount of pressure is the pressure I place on myself. So in a way I chose to be alone.
