Lynn Davies Quotes
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
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When I was in college, I studied business because I thought I wanted to be a director and producer.
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I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.
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I've matured since joining United, on and off the field.
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It's great to play someone who's so unafraid of being who she is.
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I feel like unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment, it blocks the flows of God's blessings in life.
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If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
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I would love to continue working on animated films. Yeah, those are my ambitions. No doubt.
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Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.
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Paris ain't much of a town.
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When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.
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There is a unique freshness when eating buckwheat noodles cold with plenty of herbs and citrus acidity. I can't think of any better use of chopsticks on a hot and sweaty evening.
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I've spent my life visiting a handful of people who are very close to me when they've been committed to one hospital or another in New York.
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I've been in real estate for my whole life, I've been trying to sharpshoot the market with my investments, I'm never right. All you need to do is get near the bottom. That's good enough.
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People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really well and all that guff before they've achieved anything. It doesn't work like that. You have to spend five or six years being relatively rubbish and put up with it. For that you don't deserve to be getting lottery money.
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They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.
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My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right.
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No man fails who does his best.
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I've always been interested in making movies.
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It's very difficult to learn not to take nasty heckles personally.
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All you need to do is to get clients in the hotel door; then they hand you their wallets for five days.
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I wanted to know if the 'Iliad' in the original was as relevant and contemporary as it was in translation. I then started Latin. I had finally found something I enjoyed and was good at: dead languages!
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I remember from my father's funeral that the minister kept using a metaphor about life of a prism. And I took that away like a cherished image.
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Athletes peak for the Olympic Games and can take months to get back up to that level.
