"I do a lot of media work, I've been investing and I'm involved with real estate. It's totally different from what I had been doing but I find it challenging and fun. To be honest, I really don't miss the track. I pretty well accomplished what I set out to do and it was time to move on."

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Source : "I don’t miss running, says Donovan Bailey". Interview with Paul Irish, www.thestar.com. November 28, 2011.

Donovan Bailey

#Fun Quotes #Real Quotes #Moving Quotes

“I can't read ten pages of Steinbeck without throwing up.”

Source : "Books: The Hermit of Lambertville". "TIME" Magazine, September 2, 1957.
“Wasnâ€™t it extraordinary to be in the world right now, wandering around in a wonderful adventure!”
“I can say that even in the midst of my most cynical comic stripping: Opus shone through with a bit of heart, anchoring the ugly proceedings with a comforting pull of emotion.”

Source : Interview with Michael Cavna, www.washingtonpost.com. March 12, 2011.
“It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.”
“I think the more rational explanation is that the excision of a five-to-six-foot leech from the surface of a human body means that that body is going to have more of its own blood in its own veins. Unless the leech finds another body, it is going to go hungry.”
“Art is always, even at its most repulsive, an impassioned cry of love.”
“It's really important to be active in your community, whatever community that is... find allies and find people who you relate to and who make you stronger as a group.”
“And when we used to play and fight in the streets in Brooklyn and I would get hurt or something, my mother would always come out and save me. So that sort of postponed the inevitable about getting a good beating, without having somebody to come and save you.”

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