Kathrine Switzer Quotes
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First of all, I try to be a positive role model.
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I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss.
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I do think people are definitely sick of the Kardashians.
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I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
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I wasn't a social butterfly at all.
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I've never played a Dane in a movie. I've had offers to be in Danish movies, including for some good directors, but I either had a job at the time or, when I was available, the movie just didn't happen. Hopefully someday I'll do one.
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There's usually one piece in 'Vanity Fair' every month that grabs me, but when it presents hatchet jobs without substantiation to impress its liberal friends, I laugh first, then toss.
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During the holiday season, it's easy to forget that sometimes the best gift of all is simply the gift of time. I can't think of anything a writer would appreciate more than being given time and space to work.
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The ability to do this so quickly was largely due to the enthusiastic and efficient services of Mr. C.E. Taylor, who did all the machine work in our shop for the first as well as the succeeding experimental machines.
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I used to work at a punk venue in Pennsylvania because I wanted to be near music.
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I have no family to take care of.
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The only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.
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If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer.
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Honesty is a complex and tricky thing, and we don't want to be honest all the time.
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My husband may have been in the military, but no one tells me which leader to follow.
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It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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The need to encourage entrepreneurship and ensure that young people have the opportunity to start new businesses is acute.
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Pelorat sighed. 'I will never understand people.' 'There’s nothing to it. All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else. We’re in no way different ourselves... You show me someone who can’t understand people and I’ll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself.'
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I thought I saw him for what he was-or what I thought he was. And he was talented, no doubt about that. But, he thought his talent was based on misery and that if he became happy it would just go. He believed that.
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He understands what he needs to do. He's quite confident that once he's released, he will be able to return to sobriety.
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Even when nothing happens, everything seems too much for me. What can be said, then, in the presence of an event, any event?
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If you look up at the sky after falling down the blue sky is also today stretching limitlessly and smiles at me... I'm alive.
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I've changed Sydney. It's my city, my people. I'm theirs. We belong to each other.
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Talent is everywhere, it only needs the opportunity.
