Katarina Witt Quotes
Almost nothing is presented to you on a silver platter. You have to really work for it.
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I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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I don't believe in endorsing a product that you don't want to endorse.
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Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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Since I was a child, I have had this feeling that the most important work I'd do would be with my family.
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What I'm trying to do is to write a story. If you take something from it, that's wonderful; if you don't, that's wonderful as well.
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There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.
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The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever.
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You can't get emotional about your work.
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Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.
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Glory is attained from hard work, step by step.
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If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily... and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.
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A mate of mine told me recently, 'It's the first time I've seen you work, Worthington.' I thought that was quite funny, but he was right.
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If you are playing someone living, it is a different type of judgment. However much work you do, it is not a documentary. There will be things you can't get right, and ultimately, you have to take a leap because - you weren't there.
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I want to know that I gave my 100 percent, and even if it doesn't work, you know that you gave everything, and you don't have to look at it and say... I could have gave more - that would break my heart.
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I learned about M&A and how to value assets and work with investment bankers.
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Making $30,000 on my first business deal was exciting, but not as exciting as the sudden knowledge that I did not have to work for anyone again.
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My mother was amazing. I guess, in our community, if you wanted to get by you had to work hard. So she cleaned offices. She did everything that you could imagine. We were really poor. But she would say, 'Where you are is not who you are.'
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There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it.
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I couldn't have children, so that's the bad side. But compared to everything else I have, it's not all that terribly bad. I count my winners rather than my losers.
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We're hardwired for connection. There's no arguing with the bioscience. But we can want it so badly we're trying to hot-wire it.
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Here we spent so much time together - eight months of our lives almost - and it was so great because we all got so close and that really made us not afraid to improve with each other.
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Almost nothing is presented to you on a silver platter. You have to really work for it.
