Ashton Eaton Quotes
That's what has always been good about track. The goal is very clearly defined: Try to win. Get the gold medal. And I'm able to put my energy toward that.
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I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter, a proofreader, a mental-health-care provider, a substitute teacher, and a book reviewer. In and around the edges of all those jobs I have written poems, stories, and books, books, books.
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I think at first the Flume project really started out as an online thing. I used Facebook and SoundCloud, and I think we got lucky because it felt like a bit of a golden age of those social media platforms. So I managed to create quite a solid fan base online.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.
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China's development is an opportunity for the international community, for Japan and for the Asia-Pacific.
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Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just go.
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What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.
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Emilia Clarke has beautiful brunette hair.
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I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo.
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Get Miramax to send me down to Australia. I'd like to see it.
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I was shocked when 'The Hobbit' ended where it ended. I wasn't paying attention to what they were doing; I didn't know they had another movie, and I couldn't believe it was when the dragon came out.
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Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.
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I would be happy if people just called me an actor.
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Sure, if you're a well to do family, you always have the option of sending your children to private schools where teachers spend less time disciplining kids and more time teaching them. However, this option is beyond the reach of most households. And this is what makes school vouchers such a promising solution for lower and middle income families.
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My specialty was baked potatoes with cheese melted over broccoli. I was also very good at melting cheese on bread.
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If I don't terrorize, I'm not Pop.
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I'm pretty low-key; you'll often find me in jeans, a T-shirt and sweatshirt.
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Serve yourself, put the food away, then eat.
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I don't feel that electronic music has to stand on the back of urban artists or anyone else to be recognized. It's great music.
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The cool thing about Snapchat is you can get a lot of news on there now. There's CNN, ESPN, and I find myself reading the most random articles. I don't know how it actually benefits me, but it's interesting. I like to stay up on current events, so I have to give kudos to Snapchat: they've done a good job of that. But I'm on there way too much.
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Being self-critical is good; being self-hating is destructive. There's a very fine line there somewhere, and I walk it carefully.
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In Virginia, we want to have our own opportunity to control our own destiny, control our own market.
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The point came when people were doing things I didn't feel competent to do myself. I'm not being modest; I honestly get lost. I was lucky in spotting what I did when I did, but there comes a point where you realise what you're doing is not going to be much good.
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That's what has always been good about track. The goal is very clearly defined: Try to win. Get the gold medal. And I'm able to put my energy toward that.
