Gretchen Bleiler Quotes

The first few years I was competing, I'd ride so well in practice, then choke and fall in competition. Now I take a deep breath and say, 'Look at me. I'm outside. I'm doing what I love.' Still, nothing's matched the pressure I felt standing at the top of the halfpipe for the first time at the Olympics.

Gretchen Bleiler

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That's how me and my friends are. We love our personal relationships, but we have things we want to accomplish.

Jessica Williams

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Films for TV have to be much closer to the book, mainly because the objective with a TV movie that translates literature is to get the audience, after seeing this version, to pick up the book and read it themselves. My attitude is that TV can never really be any form of art, because it serves audience expectations.

Michael Haneke

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For my 10th birthday, what I wanted was Beatle boots and a Beatle wig. My parents couldn't find Beatle boots, but down at the dime store, Woolworths or someplace, they found a Beatle wig!

Ron Howard

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Reagan and Bush... made the world safe for hypocrisy.

Julia Phillips

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The reality, as the battlefield taught us, is that a 20th-century organizational system is simply insufficient for the speed of the information age.

Chris Fussell

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But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.

Arthur Rimbaud

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I do talk like a truck driver sometimes, or I curse. What can I say?

Penny Marshall

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Although I believe deeply that the Children's Health Insurance Program and the Community Health Center program are invaluable, I reject the notion that we cannot reauthorize these programs without plundering other equally vital programs.

Seth Moulton

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I've been trying to learn to ski for years, but there's something about being 6-foot-5 and falling that's not appealing.

Tyler Perry

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Under Medicare right now, I get paid to put a pacemaker in you, but I don't get paid to counsel you about end-of-life care.

Richard Dooling

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A consumer doesn't take anything away: he doesn't actually consume anything. Giving the same thing to a thousand consumers is not really any more expensive than giving it to just one.

Linus Torvalds

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I have brothers, and that so-called boyish quality was something that I was deathly self-conscious about when I was younger.

Kristen Stewart

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