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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Israel is slightly smaller than New Jersey. Moses in effect led the tribes of Israel out of the District of Columbia, parted Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis, and wandered for forty years in Delaware.
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My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent.
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A lot of comics make good actors. Actors make bad comics. They can't do it the other way round.
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Look! I can't even wear glasses because my ear is missing. I'm hardcore! I'm hardcore!
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My personal life may be crowded with small petty incidents, altogether unnoticeable and mean; but if I obey Jesus Christ in the haphazard circumstances, they become pinholes through which I see the face of God, and when I stand face to face with God I will discover that through my obedience thousands were blessed. When once God's Redemption comes to the point of obedience in a human soul, it always creates. If I obey Jesus Christ, the Redemption of God will rush through me to other lives, because behind the deed of obedience is the Reality of Almighty God.
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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.
