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Patrick Chan Quotes

I know that, in hockey, the object of the game is simple in that you have to get the puck into the net. With figure skating, it's not as simple, and there is a ton of work that goes into it.

Patrick Chan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: canadian
Birth: December 31, 1990

Topics

Work Simple Game Hockey You Know

Some people get into this business and they're so afraid to lose anything. They try to protect their position like clinging to a beachhead. These actors end up making really safe choices. I never wanted to go that route. If I go down, I'm going down swinging.

Matt Damon

Business People Choices End Lose Go

Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.

Jeanette Winterson

Listening Writing Language Everything

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

John Ray

You Run Will Right Over Sit

Honduras is strongly anti-Communist, maintains no diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, and has provided vital support for United States-backed rebels fighting to overthrow the Sandinistas in neighboring Nicaragua.

Stephen Kinzer

Support Fighting Soviet Soviet Union

I was an anomaly because my father was a Harvard man, and he came from a family of poor people.

Tom Sizemore

Family Father Man People Poor He

I write a ridiculous number of drafts. The characters change and grow through the drafting, and my understanding of them deepens. Creating characters in a novel is like shooting at clay pigeons and missing, and then missing more productively as the narrative continues.

Robert Boswell

Change Grow Understanding Creating

For me, inspiration isn't a sort of spark which lights the fire of the story. It's more like a thread, one of many, which you can tease out of a story once it's written, if you feel so inclined.

Michelle Paver

Fire Me Story Spark Feel You

A lot of people think jugglers defy gravity or do stuff. Well, I kind of, from my childhood and golf and all that, it's a process of joining with forces.

Michael Moschen

Childhood People Think Process Golf

To look for some kind of insight or meaning in pop songs is not really - well there's plenty of other places where you should probably look first before you start looking for it in a pop song. I guess it was just because I was really into music as a child, and I wanted it to say more. It was the thing, wasn't it? And now it isn't.

Jarvis Cocker

Music Child Song Looking Start Look

I like to have fun in the ring, but I knock them out.

Deontay Wilder

Fun Have Fun Ring Out Knock Like

Shakespeare did not consider himself the legislator of mankind. He faithfully records man's problems and does not evidently propose to solve them.

Allan Bloom

Man Problems Mankind Records He Did

A lot of chefs are traditional and do it very well. But the ones who are the most successful are the ones who change things. That is why someone like Heston Blumenthal is a genius.

Wolfgang Puck

Change Genius Someone Why Successful