Lizzie Armitstead Quotes
It's not always about gold medals, I think. It has to be about development, and we are missing that in U.K. at the moment.
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I tweeted once, and I still stick to this, that I would love to marry a Croatian girl. I want my children to speak Croatian first, and for them to do that, we need someone who speaks very good Croatian.
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As most actors/actresses, I don't like to watch my own movies, either, and I never look at the dailys while filming.
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My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
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The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
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Now, I am completely independent - I earn my living by speaking and writing.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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My father is very dry and very quick-witted, and my mother is very silly. It was the perfect combination because I got an education in physical and verbal comedy.
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I have a constant sort of melancholy approach to acting that fuels me. I want to do everything.
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When all is said and done the only thing you'll have left is your character.
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I'm definitely more of a 'think game' kind of girl. I'll read every single dialogue and codex entry and lore entry. I really do love projecting myself and creating my character.
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People do look at it as an insult that I say I don't listen to country music, which cracks me up.
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I was the deputy Chairman of the Democratic Union of the Pacific, and we started at 8 I think and I was called to the telephone and to be told there's a coup, the government has been overthrown - it was round about 9, 10 when the Parliament sat they had done then.
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I hate rats. I had a pet rat to try and overcome it. I even gave him mouth-to mouth resuscitation when he had a heart attack. But I couldn't conquer it.
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My greatest competition is, well, me.
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The reality is our story and the way we love and our taste in clothing and everything else. And what we ambitiously feel we can be.
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People I looked up to a lot were, you know, Oprah because she had a rough childhood but overcame so many obstacles and broke barriers to become who she is. It was really eye opening to me: just because I had a rough childhood doesn't mean that I can't make something of myself.
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I have some sweets now and then, but I wouldn't say I have a major sweet tooth.
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My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent.
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The idea of determinism combined with complete human responsibility struck me as very hard to reconcile with an idea of justice, let alone mercy.
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When someone is counting out gold for you, don't look at your hands, or the gold. Look at the giver.
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People, particularly over-moralistic Americans, have often seen me as a pessimist and humourless to boot, yet I think I have an almost maniacal sense of humour. The problem is that it's rather deadpan.
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The fact is I am growing old too fast, alas! I feel it, and yet work I will, and may God grant me life to see the last plate of my mammoth work finished.
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It's not always about gold medals, I think. It has to be about development, and we are missing that in U.K. at the moment.
