Daley Thompson Quotes
I have the mentality of a winner. I first went to the Olympic Games when I was 17, three weeks after my O-levels, and I remember sitting in a dining-hall filled with the world's best athletes.

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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I was obsessed with work in my youth. It's why I didn't get married until I was 38 and the reason I didn't have kids.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped.
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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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You get your heart stomped by the opposite sex, and you're hurting so badly that you write 'Sometimes When We Touch.' But then what happens when you've been married for 25 years? You can't rely on those emotional male-female roller coasters. You have to start using your imagination and the powers of empathy more.
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'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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Just because a rapper is white, I don't feel the need to attack them.
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We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.
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Just getting to wake up and play somebody else for an entire day is just an amazing thing.
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I'm neither a millennial nor a hipster.
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In 1993, when I landed in Zimbabwe, there were just 10 psychiatrists in that country of 10 million people. Nine of the 10 were foreigners who spoke no regional language.
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Your reader is interested in a guileless, fresh, first-time-we-talked-about-it way. What a great liberation that is. And teenagers, if you respect them, will follow you a lot further than adults will, without fear of being a genre that they may not like or have been told not to like. They just want a story.
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The better I am at observing moments in life, the better I'll be at showing them in my acting.
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My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.
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I know it sounds a bit corny, but I do think that beauty and sexiness come from within.
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No one has ever stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?
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Art is thought, and thought only gives the world an appearance of order to anyone weak enough to be convinced by its show.
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Who was it who said that a wise man speaks when he has something to say, but a fool speaks because he must?
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People have said that my films are very difficult to watch, that they're experiences you are put through rather than ones you enjoy, and it's true.
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I have the mentality of a winner. I first went to the Olympic Games when I was 17, three weeks after my O-levels, and I remember sitting in a dining-hall filled with the world's best athletes.