Daley Thompson Quotes
Sometimes you have to resist working on your strengths in favour of your weaknesses. The decathlon requires a wide range of skills.
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Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.
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What is history but a fable agreed upon?
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Olivia Newton-John was our first choice to play Sandy, but she was nervous about acting, whether she would feel comfortable with us and could pull it off at all.
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Jose Mourinho is a big star... he's cool.
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Fiorello LaGuardia saved City Center. The real man saved it, and he made this building into a performing arts venue.
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What we did ten years ago with the Playstation was a phenomenal success story for the company. That product had a ten year life cycle, which has never been done in this industry.
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I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see.
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Everyone should have a moment with Ron Howard in their life to give you faith in our industry.
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There is an enormous shadow industry of scammers and amateurs who prey on aspiring writers, who divert people from the real publishing industry into this shadow world of vanity publishing and fee-charging agents.
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I regard myself as a beautiful musical instrument, and my role is to contribute that instrument to scripts worthy of it.
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My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for this very great honor. We each feel privileged and humbled to be named the winners of the 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
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I developed my taste for coffee at five, staying with my grandmother in Connecticut.
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Mark Twain created a new type of literature and not a lot of people can say that. Not a lot of people can say they're absolutely original and completely self-made.
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There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.
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What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not to be this or that.
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Although they are unfailingly gracious, evangelicals are not so good at respecting professional boundaries.
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My first inspiration for acting came from the first episode of 'Hannah Montana.' That's when I knew I wanted to be a singer and an actress.
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On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton, and the great booming of Tom tolling 101 times at 9 pm at Christ Church are inextricably interwoven with memories and regrets and lost joys. The sound almost sends me mad, so intense are the feelings it evokes.
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I really enjoy being a dad, and maybe I took it too seriously, but I love being around my kids.
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When I was in Boston, I was doing a lot of Americana stuff - I fell in love with Ray LaMontagne, Patty Griffin, and Neil Young.
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Well, I do expect a lot of myself. I'm a harsh critic because I know what I'm capable of. I have hit those occasional peaks amongst the valleys, but the peaks are so few-things like genuine flashes of virtuoso brush inking, like I've never executed before or since-I can count on one hand the number of jobs where I've been able to hit that mark. The same with penciling. Sometimes it just flows, but more often than not, it's pure physical and spiritual torment just to get something decent on paper. I often get very discouraged with the whole creative process.
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Sometimes you have to resist working on your strengths in favour of your weaknesses. The decathlon requires a wide range of skills.
