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Jesse Owens Quotes

Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: american
Birth: September 12, 1913 - March 31, 1980

Topics

Competition Gold Friends Born Become

Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.

People Generation Divorce New Want

I'm in so many Charles Bronson films because no other actress will work with him.

Work Will Him Because Actress Many

In Halloween, I viewed the characters as simply normal teenagers. Laurie, Jamie Lee's character, was shy and somewhat repressed. And Michael Myers, the killer, is definitely repressed. They have certain similarities.

Character Shy Similarities Normal

I write very quickly; I rewrite very slowly. It takes me nearly as long to rewrite a book as it does to get the first draft. I can write more quickly than I can read.

Me Book Long I Can Write First

I don't let it bother me too much if someone doesn't like me. I just figure there's no accounting for taste. It's not me, it's my acting. It's like if someone doesn't like someone's food, they just don't like my acting.

Food Me Accounting Someone Acting

Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.

Peace Mind Hand Property Secure

I'm not a good mother at all.

Good Mother Good Mother

With many serious challenges facing our country - pressing issues like climate change, income inequality, and education - Trump has expressed neither the inclination nor the ability to take on these problems.

Education Change Challenges Problems

I think it's ridiculous when people say, 'I don't date actors.' It's about the right person, and no matter what that right person does for a profession, they're still going to be the right person.

People Right Person Think Person Say

How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child.

Child You Illusion Lost Strange How

When I walked into the room to meet Michael Landon, it was clear he was a big-time star. To be around him was as far from Charles Ingalls as you could get. The hair was the same - no one touched his hair.

Hair You Meet Him Same Room

Novel-writing is, for the novelist, a game of let's pretend.

Game Pretend Novelist

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