Debi Thomas Quotes

What was most important to me at the Olympics was going out there and performing my best. When I messed up the first jump combination, which was my big move, it hit me that I messed up the program of my life.

Debi Thomas

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If an alien came down from Mars and saw us all taking selfies and the like, I think it'd up and leave. It'd think we were all mad.

Joe Cole

ThinkMadDownAlienMarsLeave

So I had all the names, three names, and that's good to have on a soap.

Joan Van Ark

GoodThreeNamesSoapHad

I'm afraid I didn't really like Caracas in Venezuela. From what I saw it seemed so crime-ridden that you really have to be on your guard all the time.

Jo Nesbo

TimeYouAfraidGuardSawYour

Anecdotes are factoids of questionable provenance, burnished to a high gloss, often set in gilded venues and populated with familiar names as background atmosphere, purged of ambiguity in the interest of keeping the narrative flowing smoothly.

John Gregory Dunne

NamesHighNarrativeAtmosphereSet

America is a land where men govern, but women rule.

John Mason Brown

WomenMenAmericaLandWhereRule

Being a grandparent doesn't interest me whatsoever. Babies are all right if they're your own, but I'm not interested in other people's. It's something you tolerate because they are yours.

Angela Bowie

PeopleMeYouRightOwnSomething

When I was younger, everyone thought I was Courteney Cox.

Amy Landecker

ThoughtEveryoneYoungerCox

Play so that you may be serious.

Anacharsis

YouPlaySeriousMay

In my family, we were on again off again Unitarians, partly because my father, raised Roman Catholic, had had enough of church.

Stacey D'Erasmo

FamilyFatherChurchEnoughOff

As a kid, I was school swot, but I used to hang around the billiard halls, learning that Geordie sense of humour, mixing with low-lifes. They were the sort who'd pick your pocket and then say 'Here you are lad, here's tuppence, get yourself some chips'. I was a good rugby player, a good runner, so I fitted in at Cambridge quite easily.

Sid Waddell

LearningGoodYourselfSchoolYou

To succeed in big-city politics requires a powerful, motivating vision of a better world, a plan to get there, a willingness to meet constituents on their terms, and a tough political skin.

Michael Nutter

VisionPoliticsSucceedWorldBetter

Nobody works harder than me in the ring; no one steals the show more often, and no one gets better reactions for a guy who's not even part of huge storylines.

Dolph Ziggler

MeBetterNobodyRingMoreGuy

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