Nick Dempsey Quotes

As an athlete, my first Olympic experience was Sydney 2000. I remember seeing people getting medals, and I thought, 'Wow, that's where I want to be.'

Nick Dempsey

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: August 13, 1980

Topics

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England is like the margin of a spring-run: near its source, always green, always cool, always moist, comparatively free from frost in winter and from drought in summer.

John Burroughs

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I don't think enough players channel the energy of the crowd. If it's done properly, and you don't let anger overwhelm and distract you, it's like a shot of adrenaline in the arm, and it gets the crowd pumped up.

John McEnroe

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If theatre paid as well as movies and TV, I'd do it all the time.

Tom Irwin

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We tell our kids to try for what they want. We cheer them on. But at some point, we stop doing this for ourselves. We shouldn't be so quick to close doors.

Mary Steenburgen

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My father was a singer. So it just kind of happened that one Sunday while my dad was singing, I just walked out and stood next to him, and I started singing the song that he was leading, and I sang it in perfect pitch.

Marvin Sapp

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Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don't have the ability to be lovable.

Dick Gregory

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Looking back, I think that's why I did music. I'd get home from school and the house would be so quiet.

Dido Armstrong

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Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the novel was the supreme literary form - not just one among many, not a relic of the past, but the way we communicate to one another the subtlest truths about this business of living.

William Nicholson

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I am the greatest Angela Bassett fan. She is such a fine human being and so steady.

Suzanne de Passe

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I realized that bullying never has to do with you. It's the bully who's insecure.

Shay Mitchell

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I'm a big country fan.

Shannon Elizabeth

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I'm terrified of heights, but I think there's something really beautiful about birds and soaring, having a bird's-eye view of the world.

Lindy Booth

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