Dick Fosbury Quotes

When you reach that elite level, 90 percent is mental and 10 percent is physical. You are competing against yourself. Not against the other athlete.

Dick Fosbury

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YourselfReachYouAthleteAgainst

You know my girls are so funny. You're out in the country and there are critters everywhere and they get a little like, 'Oh my God! Oh no, bugs!' and I had to say, 'Honey this is fine. This is their world and it's all part of being in the country.' I realized, 'Oh my God, my girls are really city girls.'

Anna Gunn

FunnyGodCityWorldYouHoney

I've resigned myself to the fact that the world needs clowns, too, and I was born to be one of them. And it is an important role in our society to play.

Matt Letscher

MyselfWorldSocietyBornPlayRole

There's only one thing harder than living in a home with an adolescent - and that's being an adolescent. The moodiness, the volatility, the wholesale lack of impulse control, all would be close to clinical conditions if they occurred at another point in life. In adolescence, they're just part of the behavioral portfolio.

Jeffrey Kluger

LifeHomeControlLivingVolatility

Not all of E. Nesbit's children's books are fantasies, but even the most realistic somehow seem magical. In her holiday world, nobody ever goes to school, though all the kids know their English history, Greek myths, and classic tales of derring-do.

Michael Dirda

ChildrenHistorySchoolWorldKnow

You have to challenge yourself about the choices you make as an artist.

Shura

ChallengeYourselfChoicesYouMake

I don't know who in my family thinks very fast at all, including me. The things that people see me do onstage are written, so it doesn't have to be very quick if you have all day with a pen.

Ron White

FamilyDayPeopleMeYouPen

Martial arts just normally would not draw me to the box office.

Mary Hart

MeOfficeBoxArtsJustWould

My father Sam, by his lifelong example, displayed for me the virtues of an honest day's work and of great personal courage.

Marv Levy

WorkFatherCourageGreatDayMe

I can't do jokes. I've always come from left field and tried to subvert conventional comedy. I started as a rebellion against that - albeit a very soft and surreal rebellion. It's escapist.

Julian Barratt

ComedyRebellionAlwaysJokesLeft

I dreaded the dance scene in 'Love Actually' more than having my teeth extracted.

Hugh Grant

LoveDanceTeethMoreThanActually

Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.

Gore Vidal

HopePeopleVoteSameFiftyPercent

I've really got no complaints.

Bill Engvall

GotComplaintsReally

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