Allyson Felix Quotes
It was not until the end of my freshman year in high school that I thought I could really have a future in track and field. I definitely did not think I could make it to the Olympics back then, though; I was just focused on making it to the state finals!
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Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.
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I've always enjoyed the teen angst thing. I had a lot of teen angst as I was growing up, so I think I have a lot to say about it through characters before I have to move on.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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Why would I want a place of my own? Then I would have to things worry about, like doing laundry and having food in the fridge.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain or joy, ecstasy.
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I am proud to be a member of the Congress of the United States.
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I've kind of blocked it out, but a good friend affectionately reminded me that yes, I was a dork. I was not a cool kid in high school.
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And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.
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If I got hit by a truck, I would want to go to hospital, but if something is bothering me I will see my naturopath.
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Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'
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I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
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How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert?
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Cats are the runes of beauty, invincibility, wonder, pride, freedom, coldness, self-sufficiency, and dainty individuality - the qualities of sensitive, enlightened, mentally developed, pagan, cynical, poetic, philosophic, dispassionate, reserved, independent, Nietzschean, unbroken, civilised, master-class men.
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To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.
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I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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I feel that 'The Great Failure' is really a book written out of great love and a willingness to face all of who a human being is.
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I think and that is all that I am.
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In many a piece of music, it's the pause or the rest that gives the piece its beauty and its shape. And I know I, as a writer, will often try to include a lot of empty space on the page so that the reader can complete my thoughts and sentences and so that her imagination has room to breathe.
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I love my 'Walking Dead' family. This is the best job I ever had.
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I do notice that when I've been away and I come back to London. People look at you. People are ready to pick arguments.
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I find Denver's hipster scene to be fully unique.
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It was not until the end of my freshman year in high school that I thought I could really have a future in track and field. I definitely did not think I could make it to the Olympics back then, though; I was just focused on making it to the state finals!
