"Ultimately when you have the perspective of why you're competing and what you're trying to pursue, the rest just falls into place."

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Source : "A conversation with U.S. Olympic gold medalist diver David Boudia". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. 2012.

David Boudia

#Fall Quotes #Perspective Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Ryan Baker sustained a penalty of play, and we withheld him from play today based on the rules violation.”
“It opens our eyes to many quite weird possibilities about disease that most medical scientists, tending to be unaware of current evolutionary thought, don't think of.”
“For years Don Imus was just - boy, he was merciless in his criticism of me. Maybe it was justified, but that didn't mean it didn't hurt.”
“If a novelist has created vivid characters, interesting relationships, settings the reader can easily imagine, and intriguing stories, a screenwriter has loads to work with. The challenge comes with deciding what to cut and what to keep.”
“I was in a tailspin of confusion I hadn't experienced since the first time I heard George W. Bush speak.”
“This may come as a surprise, given the nature of my job, but I am very guarded and contemplative. I'm not a naturally boisterous person.”

Source : "20Q: Ed Helms". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.playboy.com. May 30, 2011.
“I was sort of obsessed about corporate people committing suicide.”
“I think we create our world through stories. We use storytelling to escape or protect ourselves from the unimaginable and the horrible - from the real, in a way. It's like white light - if you put everyday reality through a prism you get this rainbow of colors that you couldn't see before. I'm interested in exploring the world to show the things that are invisible. And not just undocumented aspects of reality, but to actually make manifest things that have been hitherto invisible through the intervention of filmmaking.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

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