Haile Gebrselassie Quotes
In the marathon a crazy athlete can just keep pushing from the beginning, at a championship you don't need a time just to win the race.
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What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past.
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When all are wrong, everyone is right.
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People just don't sit down and watch shows live anymore. They DVR it. They stream it; they watch it on Netflix or iTunes.
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As most actors/actresses, I don't like to watch my own movies, either, and I never look at the dailys while filming.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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I love high heels from the age of 10! Short skirts and then high heels. My classmates used to make fun of me. Like, 'Ooh, she's so skinny and she's wearing high heels.' But I just wore what I like, and I didn't care about people's opinions, the same as I don't care now.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.
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Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.
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With a popular show, you know that there's expectations there, so that's a little nerve-wracking when you're new and you're just trying to find your legs on something, but it's exciting, too, because that's what we work so hard for.
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I would never write a sentence that didn't have a nice rhythm, or at least I wouldn't leave it to be published like that. It seems to me that prose mustn't be prosaic.
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Working with kids can be tricky because they can be pretty unpredictable.
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A lot of my work concerns a crisis of agency - what can we do?
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Mel Gibson is losing it. I don't know how people still supporting this dude's movies like it's all good. That dude is nuts. All you gotta do is shut him down and don't support any of his movies.
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And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.
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Nothing fruitful ever comes when plants are forced to flower in the wrong season.
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God creates everything out of nothing. And everything which God is to use, he first reduces to nothing.
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I'm a lot less precious than I used to be about putting things out, for better or for worse. The result of a public that has a very high consumption rate and turnover rate is people listen to more music but spend less time with individual bits of music.
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It may be that the seemingly intrinsic attraction that past time has for me is merely a desire for escapism, as I look out at the nation and world with little optimism.
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In the marathon a crazy athlete can just keep pushing from the beginning, at a championship you don't need a time just to win the race.
