I listen to music before my competitions to get me pumped up. It helps me stay focused.
Michael Phelps
Recitation: by Male by Female
You can be in terrible shape, and if you take a three-hour walk through the forest and along the river, you're simply not the same as when you started out.
Jim Harrison
WalkRiverForestYouOutShape
I don't go around thinking I'm attractive or not attractive. It has never occurred to me. People don't think like that where I come from... No one has ever said, 'Oh, he's a good-looking bloke.' They just didn't use those words about men.
Melvyn Bragg
MenWordsPeopleMeThinkThinking
For some actors, their star shines brightly and fizzles out. My star doesn't shine that brightly, but it buzzes along. Hopefully, that means it will last longer.
Anna Maxwell Martin
ShineWillOutStarLastAlong
Art consists of reshaping life, but it does not create life nor cause life.
Stanley Kubrick
LifeArtCreateCauseNorDoes
In my view the European culture carries a very heavy responsibility for the creation of Israel... it is a product of both British and Stalin's anti- Semitism, but the British never faced their own complicity in its construction.
Tom Paulin
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It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
Robert A. Heinlein
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For the first three years, when I was writing, I was doing sessions with a whole bunch of different people all the time every day until I met Lindy Robbins, who kind of mentored me. And then, once you find that, all the pieces come together.
Julia Michaels
TimeDayTogetherPeopleMeWriting
Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time' has been targeted by censors for promoting New Ageism, and Mark Twain's 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' for promoting racism. Gee, where does that leave the kids?
Judy Blume
TimeRacismNewLeaveMarkKids
It's less about what you do and more about who you are doing it with.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
DoingYouMoreWhoAboutLess
Design and style should work toward making you look good and feel good without a lot of effort so you can get on with the things that matter.
Donna Karan
WorkGoodStyleEffortFeel Good
At 18, I felt I was too young to think about having my eggs frozen.
Delta Goodrem
ThinkYoungFrozenEggsFeltAbout
Inspiring passion in children for books, and the world of imagination and creativity fuelled by them, is a fundamental reason for why the Children's Laureate post exists.
Anthony Browne
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