Valentino Rossi Quotes
I would have probably stolen cars – it would have given me the same adrenaline rush as racing.
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I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.
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My coach is pushing me harder than ever to make sure I stay at a good level.
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I'm not sure specifically but there's definitely parts of me in Rikku.
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My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.
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Being in water makes me relax instantly.
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Sometimes it's less about the character and more about the story for me. I'll play a rock in the background if I think the story is fantastic and I can be a part of it somehow. That's what I look for.
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My mom helped me get started when I was younger. I started with singing. An agent saw me singing on stage at the Palm Springs Festival, and recommended I get into acting, so I was like, 'Oh, okay.' I just started from there, singing and acting.
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My first trip to Mexico was with my dad because of his Spanish records. That was back in 1958. I found a picture of me when I was eight dressed as a little senorita.
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My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please help me.' And the people say: 'Hey, you look like...' And I'm dying while they're wondering whether I'm Barbra Streisand.
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Epic were adamant that I should carry on being me. They liked the way I look, my clothes, hats... nothing's changed really.
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What I didn't want to do is get into a ratings race with television because really, for them, it matters. For me, it doesn't.
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Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business.
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It's so important to me to do the washing, do the Hoovering. I don't ever want to lose contact with that.
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To me, it's weird when people review improv at all.
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I can be more cold than people would like me to be.
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I have some security that could protect me against provocations but of course there are more terrible actions that could not be stopped by any security.
Garry Kasparov -
I think it's really good to get the adrenaline pumping.
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I grew up on the rough side of the tracks. If you looked like you were soft, you would be fodder for the wolves. I came up in my neighbourhood like, 'I'm just gonna be me,' and all the thugs just said, 'It's OK, he's special.' They knew I had the talent with the rhymes, so they kept me around.
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I am in love with cars; I love anything that moves.
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I like racing but food and pictures are more thrilling. I can't give them up. In racing you can be certain, to the last thousandth of a second, that someone is the best, but with a film or a recipe, there is no way of knowing how all the ingredients will work out in the end. The best can turn out to be awful and the worst can be fantastic. Cooking is like performing and performing like cooking.
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I hope so. We've got a measure in front of us that we have to step up to and try to regain some kind of composure and some kind of home-court advantage.
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The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall.
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I would have probably stolen cars – it would have given me the same adrenaline rush as racing.
