Lizzie Armitstead Quotes
There's been a lot of champions before me, and I'm sure there will be ahead of me.
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The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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I think pride is more important sometimes than making money.
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If you believe these polls, you're making a mistake.
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Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
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It seems like women are always told, 'It is not your time.'
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The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and a criticism of the status quo. That's my dream, to make such a German film.
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I have a lightsaber at my front door for home protection. I have an 800-watt electric skateboard that I use to run errands in my neighborhood. It can go about six, seven miles, so depending on how much time I have, and how much I have to carry home, I'll take it really far. I love that thing.
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My father was a minister, and it was more my mother that had the responsibility of making sure the family put out an outward of appearance of living what he was preaching. She was the PR.
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My job is to work hard and be honest with my character, and that's in my control. I can only try to give my best performance.
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I often feel that when people have affairs, it has more to do with something they're searching for in themselves than anything else.
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Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.
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Peter Cook and Dudley Moore were friends and the last people I expected would predecease me. They were, in a sense, casualties of fame.
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When you go see a good DJ, you'll know it, man - you'll know it in your bones. Between the guy who's phoning it in and the guy who's obsessively working it to give you the best show of his life.
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It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.
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I am an inventor of music.
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At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.
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I believe fantasy and dreaming can be made a reality. You don't have to be rich. You don't have to be a VIP.
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Reason is like a runner who doesn't know that the race is over, or, like Penelope, constantly undoing what it creates.... It is better suited to pulling things down than to building them up, and better at discovering what things are not, than what they are.
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I did the one concert, and I was not bitten by the conducting bug, and I thought I was done, but then the phone started to ring, and gradually, over time, I started conducting more and more. Now a third of my performances are with orchestras.
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Every time I get dressed, I try to channel a little bit of Kanye West and a little bit of Sailor Moon.
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I am now concerned with women's issues in a different way: women from Afghanistan, from Cambodia.
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The gold medals from world championships and National Games prove the efficiency of my daily training.
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There's been a lot of champions before me, and I'm sure there will be ahead of me.
