Victoria Pendleton Quotes

Oddly enough you'd think, now that I wasn't training professionally, I'd be able to enjoy a lie-in at the weekend, but I actually slept more when I was competing because I was so tired.

Victoria Pendleton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: September 24, 1980

Topics

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I came from a very, very small valley in the middle of South Wales. I grew up there with my father, who's a coal miner, and my mother worked in a normal factory.

Aneurin Barnard

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It is best not to swat at the fly's starting position, but rather to aim a bit forward of that to anticipate where the fly is going to jump when it first sees your swatter.

Michael Dickinson

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Money is a never-ending problem.

Alvin Ailey

MoneyProblemNever-Ending

My son Matthew's beloved dog is a Jack Russell. His name is Buster. Matthew picked him as a puppy, when he was tiny himself.

Rob Lowe

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Anyone who has ever spent time listening to a legislature knows the astonishing speed at which all presiding officers and reading clerks can spit out the formulaic incantations of parliamentary procedure.

Molly Ivins

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A lot of things that should not be written were written without checking with me, things that were not in good taste. That hurt me. That is why I stopped talking to the press. Because they didn't want to ask me. They just wanted to write what they felt like.

Mohammad Azharuddin

GoodMeHurtTalkingWantWhy

The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.

Josephine Baker

LifeLoveLongAlwaysThingsStay

That's the easiest job you can have in TV comedy, being the guy who just delivers the funny.

Josh McDermitt

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You have to put your own personality into your home. Do what you feel is you!

Douglas Wilson

HomePersonalityFeelYouOwnYour

How do I feel about being a star now? Well I still try to live life and enjoy what I am doing.

Christian Slater

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What makes a Beethoven symphony spectacular, what makes a Brahms rhapsody spectacular is that the patterns are wondrous.

Brian Greene

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When you're writing for newspapers you have all these parameters. You can't swear, you have to use short paragraphs, all that. If you stay within those parameters, you have lots of freedom because you're writing for the next day.

Chuck Klosterman

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