Diana Nyad Quotes

You don't simply tell someone to get out there and win the tennis match. You say 'move your feet' or 'watch the fuzz on the ball' to really get into the Zen of it. You pull all that together, and then you just might hold up the Wimbledon Plate... It's not about winning first place but bringing every element of effort to whatever you do.

Diana Nyad

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 22, 1949

Topics

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It can be hard for the cute girl. I was blond, cute, broke. I was beat up. I was thrown inside lockers. I was burned with cigarettes. My hair was lit on fire.

Jenny McCarthy

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And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet.

John Guare

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I came to 'RuPaul's Drag Race' late: I didn't get into the show until its fourth or fifth season.

Jenna Wortham

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A close-up on screen can say all a song can.

Stephen Sondheim

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Playing a real person, it does add an extra level of thoughtfulness. You're portraying someone who actually existed, so instead of saying, like, 'OK, I think this would make the scene better,' it's more a question of, 'What do I think the real Jeffrey Dahmer would do?'

Ross Lynch

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Hypocrisy is great fodder for comedy.

Mo Rocca

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I've sung my whole life. I've taken lots of voice lessons and I love to sing. But I've never really sung professionally at all.

Liv Tyler

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I certainly want to be the whip, and that's an election every two years in the Senate Democratic caucus.

Dick Durbin

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I wrapped my Christmas presents early this year, but I used the wrong paper. See, the paper I used said 'Happy Birthday' on it. I didn't want to waste it so I just wrote 'Jesus' on it.

Demetri Martin

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Parks represent an efficient, cost-effective way to improve public health.

Chuck Norris

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I practiced drawing all the time and became very interested in it. If I was at a meeting that wasn't getting anywhere - like the one where Carl Rogers came to Caltech to discuss with us whether Caltech should develop a psychology department - I would draw the other people.

Richard P. Feynman

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We're in an age of enlightenment, and we have a choice as a society which path to take.

Rhys Ifans

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