Lorrie Fair Quotes
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Winning is great, but being able to finish my last Olympic Games on American soil was very important. Even though I was injured, I didn't let my psyche get the best of me and cause me to doubt myself, so I was willing to pull every muscle in my body in '96 in order to get the job done and I came away with the bronze medal.
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For thousands of years, we did have death surrounding us, and we did have people die in the home. You would take care of your own end. You would do ritual processes, and you would be involved in it, and that's been taken away in the Western world.
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The only thing I want to say is, I know I'm not Einstein, but I'm not the queen of the imbeciles either.
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Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.
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In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.
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There are so many young women coming up through the ranks. Adele is an amazing singer. Beyonce has great stage presence. She's just a beautiful woman. I love how everyone has just taken charge of their lives and careers.
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I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
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I'm a klutz, through and through.
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The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
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Shock can kill you. Shock is terrible. But what you've got to do is live in the present, which is what I have always done.
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I will try and make peace between North and South Korea.
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We will not be beaten. But we may be shamed and embarrassed on a needlessly long road to victory.
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Once in a while, I write in Malay and work on something fun that's more for the local Malaysian market, and when that happens, it's always something really special; it speaks volumes that I'm doing it for my fans who have been there for me since day one.
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Rich people march on Washington every day.
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Serving in the executive branch is very different than sounding off from an academic perch.
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You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.
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Olympics is everyone's dream.
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I will say this: the first film that I was on was 'In the Heat of the Night', that Norman Jewison directed with Sidney Poitier. I'm on the set, and I'm totally taking it for granted. Everyone is working for everyone else and pulling for the very best, and it makes everyone better because you feel that effort and concern and appreciation.
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I look at books as being a form of activism. Sometimes they'll show us a side of the world that we might not have known about.
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I think tax reform is the single most important thing we can do in this country to unleash economic energy. It's going to unleash growth.
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Breathes there a man with hide so tough Who says two sexes aren't enough?
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It never feels good, but I've had a couple of heartbreakers where I could have won the game, but instead ended the season, ... You learn from that.
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Everywhere you look these days you see Carolina athletes.
