Carmen Marton Quotes

When I set my eyes on the gold at the world championships, I was able to maintain that focus that whole day. That's what I aim to do in Rio - my focus is gold, so I can keep in that good state; I can't get too complacent. I can't relax; I can't be content. I need to be 100 per cent switched on.

Carmen Marton

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Naturally we would prefer seven epiphanies a day and an earth not so apparently devoid of angels.

Jim Harrison

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Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.

Jessica Lange

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I grew up in a lot of different homes when I was younger: my parents rented trailers and small, boxy houses set high on cement block pillars.

Jesmyn Ward

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When you put on the glasses in a 3-D movie they just kind of sit there and you forget about them.

Robert Rodriguez

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As an actor, you are always waiting for someone else to be able to tell you when it's okay to work, and as a writer, you can just pick up your computer and start whenever you want. That is really freeing.

Matt Letscher

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My father Lloyd Bridges worked on a TV show called 'Sea Hunt.' He impressed upon me as a child the importance of taking care of the ocean and working together to do our part to reduce human pollution.

Jeff Bridges

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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Merle Shain

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We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life.

Steve Jobs

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If peace only had the music and pageantry of war, there'd be no wars.

Sophie Kerr

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Mercer was very clever. He knew the way Southerners spoke and put that into his lyrics. But in that whole era, you had the best. Harold Arlen was just fantastic. Cole Porter was better than anybody, and Gershwin was Gershwin, y'know. Johnny Mercer started Capitol Records, and he brought in Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Nat King Cole.

Tony Bennett

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To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.

Roald Dahl

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I'm trying to do the paleo diet. No carbs.

Robin Wright

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