Allyson Felix Quotes
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri - where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.
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To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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Fashion anticipates.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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When I go to where I was getting excellent parts in movies I may have taken a few too soon, too anxious to go back to work and to anxious to make another film and to succeed more.
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We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.
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A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.
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If you could stay at this stage - you're 17, and you're always going to be in love with your first love - that's probably attractive.
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My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.
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I have been fortunate to be able to have a career playing comedy and drama. And it's awfully hard - it's like apples and pears to compare the two.
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Habit is a great deadener.
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To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.
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It's not healthy to be jealous.
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I've worked with David Lynch since I was 17, and working with him is home and family; being around Alexander Payne is home and family, Jonathan Demme. There are directors... Robert Altman, Paul Thomas Anderson... They are directors where I create homes.
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You may not quite understand the cinematic tricks that go behind the making of a film, but as long as you feel it, I think that's the important thing.
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The fun is getting to wear multiple disguises and getting to explore multiple personalities and bring them to life. So a movie career definitely affords me that.
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I have a wonderful husband, and we have had a great life.
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I don't think that I could ever be a strict dad. I never grew up with anybody strict in my life... I'm not saying I'm a role model by any means or anything. I think the fact that I wasn't told what not to do all the time - my spirit kind of told me things that I shouldn't - I got to develop on my own. It's part of your common sense.
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There are all sorts of despicable people who journalists have done interviews with, and it's been useful. Isn't more information better than less information?
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Philippians 1:21 is very special to me because it helps to keep my life centered.