Lizzie Armitstead Quotes
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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
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Studies by several different researchers have shown that the number of lies we're told each day is anywhere from 20 - 200. To many, that will seem shockingly high. Yet it isn't, in light of humans being ill-suited to detect lies. The average human can detect a lie only 54% of the time.
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I think I take what you might call a B-movie story, deal with B-movie subjects, and I treat it as if it's an A-movie in terms of my approach, my crew, my actors, my ethics and so on. I guess that's my trademark or one of them, anyway!
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Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attitudes of that time. I represent everything that's supposed to be wrong, everything that's forbidden.
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I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.
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I really believe musical form will go on. There's got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.
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I curate my T.V.-watching quite carefully.
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Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
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It was very difficult to control the descent. At a height of seven kilometres, I catapulted out of my capsule and parachuted down to Earth. I was very familiar with parachutes because I was a sky diver before.
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Everything that I have is natural – braid, nails – I practically never use cosmetics. They often ask me in the provinces about my braid.
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My extreme characters are in a state of rebellion or who are being ostracized or being misunderstood, or misfits or trying to fit in and fighting for their rights to love, live, and co-exist. They sort of mirror my own demons.
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Jack Nicklaus is the greatest winner I've ever seen.
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The show has become my therapy.
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I spent my entire childhood in an environment in which the mighty of the earth had no place outside story books and dreams.
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Doing Broadway was always a dream of mine since I was a little girl.
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You can't have a U.S. Open anymore without an extra course to store all the hospitality tents. I used to be able to drive up to the clubhouse and park like the players. Now, there are seven corporate hospitality guys who have my spot, and I'm on a bus.
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Undeniably, we were on God's side in World War II and the Cold War. But were we ourselves without sin in those just struggles?
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What is Mona Lisa thinking? Nothing, of course. Her blankness is her menace and our fear. ... Walter Pater is to call her a 'vampire,' coasting through history on her secret tasks.
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I'm a storyteller... I haves a God-given gift that I can share with you and perhaps entertain you and bring you along for the ride... So when anybody tries to take that away from me, or impede that, I get defensive.
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Attempting to be a people pleaser is a fruitless task so, fuck it.
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For the first time in a long while, her true feelings came out, showing bigotry and hatred for millions of Americans. How can she be President of our country when she has such contempt and disdain for so many great Americans?
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I used to think that in order to be lean, I had to under-eat.
