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Chris Cleave Quotes

I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme than that of an athlete.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: british
Birth: 1973

Topics

Life Tough Decisions Push Athlete

Ultimately, if you look at the game and there are two minutes left, and you have to ensure your victory, you don't want to throw the damn football. You want a runner who can run the clock out.

Football Victory Game You Look Run

There have been occasions - and I think it's very good for any human being that such occasions would be rare - that one would feel that one is a channel, and there have been some occasions when it seemed as though I was standing outside of myself watching and listening to myself sing.

Good Myself Listening Think Feel

I'm just ultracompetitive. I will be till they put me in the grave.

Me Will Just Grave Till Put

My life experience confirms that the U.S. government frequently overclassifies data. But that's a stronger argument for not dumping large volumes of government traffic on an unclassified personal server than it is a justification for retroactively challenging classification decisions.

Life Experience Government My Life

Although the circumstances of our lives may seem very disengaged, with me standing here as the First Lady of the United States of America and you just getting through school, I want you to know we have very much in common. For nothing in my life ever would have predicted that I would be standing here as the first African-American First Lady.

Life School Me My Life America You

Women are smarter by basic instinct and by what we have to do to multitask at home and at work. My mother did that 50 years ago, but it wasn't called multitasking or stress back then. She had a job, two kids and the meals to make with no cook or maid. My father would come home every day and expect lunch. He was a nice guy, but he was clueless!

Mireille Guiliano

Work Father Mother Home Women Day

I think the frustration you can get into as a young artist is when you realize your limitations, but you want to accomplish that rather than seeing that you don't have to do everything. Just focus on your strengths.

Focus Frustration Think You Artist

I was pretty anti-academic, and I wasn't much of a student. I had a really short attention span and did not get a lot out of high school academically. I think college was a little the same way.

School College High School Think Way

My favorite actor is Steve McQueen, and he did his own stunts.

Actor Own Favorite Stunts He Did

There's a tendency, especially among revolutionaries, to only show the good side of yourself and then when you come to power, the bad side comes out.

Good Power Yourself You Bad Out

I don't have a sprinter's body.

There were eleven kids, and we all shared a bathroom. It was enough to drive us all insane.

Drive Enough Bathroom Us Kids Were

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