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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When you have a passion for something then you tend not only to be better at it, but you work harder at it too.
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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 think I did realize that early on, and then I went through a fun phase where I was figuring out who I was and the different sides of myself. I think like most women, I bought into a certain ideal of beauty that I didn't quite fit into, and I tried to pretzel myself and alter myself to be what I was told is beautiful, and then I realized that you are in control of what you think is beautiful.
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When businesses face tough times, one of the first items they cut is overhead expenses. The government should do the same.
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Going forward, we must continue the fight to change the direction of our country.
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I'd like to be that chameleon. That's really ultimately what I want to hear from people eventually: 'I really love when I see him in stuff, but I never know he's gonna be here.' I want to be that actor that surprises you when you see him in a project, and you go, 'Yes! I love that guy. He's in this? Awesome.'
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Everywhere you look these days you see Carolina athletes.
