Lizzie Armitstead Quotes
It's really important for cycling and for women to be on a sporting stage which is in the mainstream and across the board, not just my own sport.
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Our focus is on helping people develop the skills to find and keep a job. Instead of focusing on a war against poverty, we will focus on fighting for the poor among us by offering them hope and opportunity.
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I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.
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People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.
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Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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Your barber always knows everything that goes on in the town, doesn't he?
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It's hard to find a play that's right for me to do. Rather than waiting around for the right script to come along, I decided to write one myself.
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I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
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Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.' Luck is great, but most of life is hard work. We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.
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To me the definition of true masculinity – and femininity, too – is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.
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I don't let anything kill my spirit.
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I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
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Talking about stepping down in five years is frankly not a topic of particular actuality now.
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I introduced the Food Security Improvement Act in Congress to remedy the fact that most SNAP beneficiaries find themselves skipping meals or running out of benefits every month.
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I've forgotten what it's like to remember. I've lost the mindless confidence that a moment, an idea, a thought will be there for me later, the bravado of breezing through experience in the certainty that it will become part of my self, part of my story.
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I didn't really grow up playing video games. I had an original Nintendo after the original Nintendo was cool.
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How you looked was not important. It was what you did and how you did it. Decide to do it and then do it the best way you can.
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Look at someone like Steve Jobs. His look wasn't very special - black turtleneck and jeans - but he had style. He looked the same, and you knew it was him when you saw him. Plus, he was a very smart person, which is also very attractive. His style was simple, not distracting, and very strong.
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My first film, 'Like Minds,' was with Toni Colette, who was extraordinary. I mean it was basically a mini-masterclass for acting on film at a time when all you could probably see were my eyebrows bouncing up and down on screen.
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Women today are dealing with both their independence and also the fact that their lives are built around finding and satisfying the romantic models we grew up with.
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Hmm, can I be obvious and say there is probably a double standard for male vs. female directors? Sadly, I think that's actually the case. And it probably stems from the fact that there are proportionately so many fewer women directors than men ones that each project is perhaps more closely scrutinized for its content.
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There are countless times where you're trying to channel somebody who's not there, but that's what you have to do. But Audrey Geisel, who has executive produced this film and Horton, and who works remarkably close with me, is a great source of information. (The Simpsons creator) Matt Groening once told me that one of the most important roles that he fulfills on The Simpsons is being the keeper of the integrity of the original vision.
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I've failed once or twice real big, independent.
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It's really important for cycling and for women to be on a sporting stage which is in the mainstream and across the board, not just my own sport.
