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Gail Devers Quotes

Looking back, I'm so proud to have gone to five Olympics - I believe only three other Americans have achieved that.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: american
Birth: November 19, 1966

Topics

Looking Back Looking Believe Proud

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

You Can Do It Think Better You Even

My influences were the riff-based blues coming from Chicago in the Fifties - Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and Billy Boy Arnold records.

Wolf Blues Chicago Boy Coming Were

There is no God-given right to victory on the battlefield. You win that through the skill and the devotion, the valor and the ferocity of your troops.

Win Victory You Skill Devotion Your

Life on the road is very different from a normal, day to day life, and sometimes that surrealistic existence can have an effect on you, you tend to forget that's not really how things are supposed to be. But there comes a point where you have to pace yourself and find a place in your mind where you can be real.

Life Day Yourself Mind Road You

I didn't really like opera. I liked cheerleading and boys and, later, smoking. So my opera career was cut short when I was 15. My dad got sick, and we couldn't afford the lessons, so I stopped and became a cheerleader and wrecked my voice.

Sick Voice Smoking Short Career Cut

When I was an actor in some movies a long time ago, I was so curious about all the camera movements - why is the camera placed here, and why does it move like this? And why the set and the background, the color? It's a lot of questions for me to ask, because I was so interested, not only in acting, but also the whole process of filmmaking.

Time Curious Me Color Questions

The trouble with the jokes is that once they're written, I know how they're supposed to work, and all I can do is not hit them. I'm more comfortable improvising. If I have just two or three ideas and I know how the character feels, what the character wants, everything in between is like trapeze work.

Stephen Colbert

Work Character Ideas I Can Trouble

I'm willing to make fun of myself.

Myself Fun Willing Make

I'm not a big fan of the thought that you can become a star by winning a contest. I'm sort of old-fashioned. I think people need to get out there and they need to work and they need to do their music because they love it. If they become successful, then great, and if they are not, whatever.

Work Love Music Great People Think

No actor can refuse a combination of a good story, a Balaji production, and the show being aired on Star Plus.

Divyanka Tripathi

Good Story Actor Production Star

One of the main pitfalls of any theoretically 'niche' show is that you spend too much time on the 'niche' and not enough time on the 'show.'

Time Enough You Too Much Niche Show

Our state's strategy on methamphetamine, and any other issue, is going to be a moving target.

Moving Strategy Target Going State

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