Allyson Felix Quotes
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I entered Harvard Medical School knowing nothing of research.
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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When you're in your early 20s your love life seems to explode every 20 minutes or so. By the time you've reached your thirties, it is every five or ten years.
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What is sure is that the satellite view of our world and its evolution is now a common reality.
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I'm trying to equalise the world to say there is no high and low.
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I don't get nothing but love. In every ghetto all over the world. Nothing but love. They respect that I came outta there and I'm doing it the right way. You can't do nothing but respect that.
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Actors, after all, dream.
Nastassja Kinski -
We lived in a classless society. We'd spend a summer at Gore Vidal's house in Italy, but we were on and off welfare.
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I grew up in a very devoutly Christian home.
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My men's-underwear print ads are very popular!
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I've always been involved in the visual arts and music.
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It is a struggle. But I don't mind. I will just keep fighting on.
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I worked at my high school newspaper at Andover, which came out weekly, unusual for a high school paper. Then my first day at Penn I went right to the 'Daily Pennsylvanian' and pretty much spent most of my college career working both as the sports editor and then editor of the editorial page.
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Some people who meet me might think I starve myself, because there's such an assumption that being thin involves putting yourself through torture and punishing your body, but I'm just naturally skinny – you should watch me demolish a ploughman's lunch.
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Change cannot come from one politician, it has to come from each one of us and not just for today...it's a gradual process. Let's be responsible & work towards it.
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Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous.
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The tar sands has changed Canada in the same way the fur trade has changed Canada.
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I work out with our trainer, Jocelynne Boschen of Alpha Sport L.A., hike a lot, and eat healthy. I love cooking so prepare a lot of my own food and avoid processed foods. No fast food. No soda.
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In January 1962, when I was the author of one and a half unperformed plays, I attended a student production of 'The Birthday Party' at the Victoria Rooms in Bristol. Just before it began, I realised that Harold Pinter was sitting in front of me.
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You have to make a decision, what you want to do in life, ... Your deal can be, you can leave tomorrow. Soon as you leave, you will be forgotten.
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It's pretty gratifying to spend so long to make your first film and then feel like it got a lot of love - that was an incredible feeling. But there's something very distorting about that much attention. It felt like such a double-edged sword.
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In black and white there are more colors than color photography, because you are not blocked by any colors so you can use your experiences, your knowledge, and your fantasy, to put colors into black and white.
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I don't have a sprinter's body.
