Florence Griffith Joyner Quotes
I have been running since I was 7. I was trying to restructure the way my body was made instead of trying to master the way I ran. I would get so frustrated with my starts in practices that I would just cry. When I ran, I wouldn't even try to get out of the blocks, I would just run.
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It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.
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It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
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I always get scared. I can't read scripts. I'm scared, scary movies and stuff.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech.
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While make-up helps to enhance one's features, too much of it tends to hide a person's features.
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Never in a million years would I imagine Calvin Klein flying me out to my first men's fashion show.
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I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.
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A lot of the younger kids now can rap, but they're scared of the crowd. Mastery of that stage is an MC. I don't know if you've seen any great MCs on stage but when you do it's like wow, this is more than the words to rhymes.
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I went through a phase where I loved tattoos, and I loved the feeling of getting tattooed.
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I've never been able to relate to apathy. I've always been doing stuff, been in action, making music or working just to get by.
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More and more political analysts and weak-kneed politicians are advising the historically pro-life Republican Party to abandon its pro-life stance for political gain. My first response is that if you cannot trust a party on the value of defending human life, how can you trust it on issues like marginal tax rates?
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Writing this record let me recapture who I am. It is summed up in the title Be Not Nobody. You need to feel comfortable in your skin and do whatever you need to do for yourself, to heal or to grow.
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Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.
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And I had a lot to play, which is what you want as an actor.
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I think it no accident that most of those emigrating to America in the 19th century identified with the Democratic Party. We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.
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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
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For years I've wanted to write about the Australian countryside, but, like most Australians, I've only got a tourist's knowledge of it. I thought that if I disobeyed that basic rule of writing - write about what you know - I'd write a thin and inauthentic book.
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We have a choice - we can both think and feel, using our heads and our hearts.
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Investors have been too willing to buy stocks with strong reported earnings, even if they do not understand how the earnings are produced.
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It's not just that everyone has a story. It's that everyone has a thousand stories. Everyone is infinite.
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You see some of these actors, they have a permanent smile on their face. How can they do that? It really fascinates me.
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I think, at the end of the day, age is just a number. It's like, in real life, I've got friends who are dating someone their age or dating someone who's twice their age, and they're equally in love.
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I have been running since I was 7. I was trying to restructure the way my body was made instead of trying to master the way I ran. I would get so frustrated with my starts in practices that I would just cry. When I ran, I wouldn't even try to get out of the blocks, I would just run.
