Lindsey Vonn Quotes
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
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Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.
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When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.
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I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.
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All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around.
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I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.
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It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.
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When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously.
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The actors that I admire are able to step into so many different roles.
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Tennis is definitely a star for women in sports.
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I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they're actresses or singers or things like that.
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Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to demand it.
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It's like, you can't have any fun, and if you do have fun, if you do your own thing, you're considered crazy and should be in a mental institution. Now, that's what I find creepy. I'm eccentric. I am not messed up.
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It is not possible, given any degree of optimism and generosity in regard to people in general, to set a time limit on creative reflection or a limitation on the number of people involved in the creation.
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My granny was very concerned that we weren't baptised - Mum had been desperate to escape her own Catholic upbringing. But Granny thought we were blighted. Whenever we turned up at her house, she would flick holy water - from the font she kept by the door - over us, in the hope that it would save us from damnation.
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I use to live on this street when I was a kid where there was an old person retirement home, and all of the old people would listen to that band Herman's Hermits, and they would wear white nursing shoes. And they would throw away stacks of VHS tapes, and I would go through the trash and take them.
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Follow up and follow through until the task is completed, the prize won.
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I hope to represent the people of the United States, not the president.
