Carol Windley Quotes
I can get really obsessive. I like writing many drafts, and I try not to because it is very time-consuming, especially when you're working on a novel. But I do like to take a story and reorder it, put things in different places. This allows me to see things in a new and sometimes surprising way.
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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I don't get irrational about it, but I do have a deeply-rooted competitive spirit. Not necessarily towards other people, but towards any obstacle that I set for myself.
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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Bombino's a super modest guy, very nice. His whole crew is a bunch of characters and he's definitely the Grand Poobah. I don't think the other guys are that much younger than him, but he definitely feels like the wise man; you just sort of get that sense when you're around him. He doesn't say that much but he's humble and well-respected.
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Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.
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Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.
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You shouldn't be ashamed of your pain. You have the right to have your pain treated.
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Now, they hold the World Cup every year, so it's like any Super Series. It's boring. To me, it's very boring. I think the players will always attend the World Cup. But for the fans, and also for most players, the Olympics and Asian Games will become more important. Nobody will look forward to the World Cup with anticipation.
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In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence.
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I feel that whoever isn't feeling settled in their career won't think about their marriage.
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I am happy in Paris.
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I think energy is the most important thing that we can give to people as performers. Anything else is a little bit pretentious. But energy is not.
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As long as we set up equality, we'll go in the right direction.
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If we go back to the moon, we're guaranteed second, maybe third place because while we are spending all that money, Russia has its eye on Mars. Landing people on the moon will be terribly consuming of resources we don't have. It sounds great - 'Let's go back. This time we're going to stay.' I don't know why you would want to stay on the moon.
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It's time to recognize that under the equal protection clause of the United States [Constitution], same-sex couples should have the same rights as anybody else.
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My kids are at a point in their lives where I'm a moral compass for them. God help them both.
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Members of Congress wear two hats: one as Washington legislator, the other as listener and community leader back home.
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If you're too smart it can limit you because you spend so much time thinking that you don't do anything.
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I can get really obsessive. I like writing many drafts, and I try not to because it is very time-consuming, especially when you're working on a novel. But I do like to take a story and reorder it, put things in different places. This allows me to see things in a new and sometimes surprising way.
