Wyomia Tyus Quotes
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If the British Isles had an official vegetable, it would have to be the potato.
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I never saw myself as being ambitious, I saw myself as being in love with the profession. I'm a people person. I love to get to know different kinds of people.
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I always like to have a buffer between me and journalism in general. Not just a reporter, but journalism.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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The attitude that poetry should not be analyzed is prevalent among many who consider themselves experts on children's literature. But I suspected that kids like to look closely at things and figure out what makes them go.
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I knew that I wanted to write about a very young woman because I wanted to see the eyes of the art world in a fresh or even slightly naive way. Because there's something very honest about entering a room and not having a read on everyone there.
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New Hampshire understands the need to pursue modern and long-term energy strategies that will help lower costs, protect our natural resources, and create good jobs.
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I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
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We should have an inclusive growth model in India. Agro-interest is also as important as industrial interest.
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I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell in love with them, and have never regretted it.
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I may as well say it, I have been married three times.
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I was a huge Mike Tyson fan growing up; his fights were always on in my house.
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I'm interested in all forms of performance, yet I think it's difficult to be as equally talented in all of them as they call for such different skills. At the moment, I still feel I'm learning and want as much experience and variety as possible.
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Even if you are a best-seller you feel insecure because it is all so unpredictable.
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I had a terrible job letting me do anything that wasn't comedy.
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It's always hard, after you've been in command, to take a lesser role.
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I feel curious about every situation I'm in.
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I went to Washington to ask for a little residual payment for the people who had written films in the early, early days, people who never got any residuals on tapes or anything at all.
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Nothing in all nature is so lovely and so vigorous, so perfectly at home in its environment, as a fish in the sea. Its surroundings give to it a beauty, quality, and power which are not its own. We take it out, and at once a poor, limp dull thing, fit for nothing, is gasping away its life. So the soul, sunk in God, living the life of prayer, is supported, filled, transformed in beauty, by a vitality and a power which are not its own.
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I have always had a love for American geography, and especially for the landscapes of the South. One of my pleasures has been to drive across it, with no one in the world knowing where I am, languidly absorbing the thoughts and memories of old moments, of people vanished now from my life.
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My father's political heroes were Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman.
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I enjoyed my time in the WRAF. There were plenty of people at the airfields where I worked, and they were all very good company.
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Observe that anyone who dies for his country is a fortunate man, but death takes what it wants, indiscriminately, in peace-time as well as in war. It is better to die with freedom than without it.
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My father used to tell us, 'You will have to work twice as hard to get what you want.
