"An athlete experiences the emotions of pain and elation through triumph and defeat, through teamwork and individuality, as nothing more than a human being...that is the true glory of sport."

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Aimee Mullins

#Sports Quotes #Teamwork Quotes #Pain Quotes

“Success for me its to raise happy, healthy human beings.”
“What is worse? Taking the life of a person who wants to live or taking death from a person who wants to die.”
“They're selling postcards of the hanging They're painting the passports brown The beauty parlor is filled with sailors The circus is in town Here comes the blind commissioner They've got him in a trance One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker The other is in his pants And the riot squad they're restless They need somewhere to go As Lady and I look out tonight From Desolation Row.”
“I could never be a part of an adaptation of a film where there's pressure to not disappoint the immense fan base. In those cases, they often wind up with filmed books on tape, quite uncinematic. Having said that, I'd say all the adaptations I've done are quite faithful to the original. You have to pick and choose which storylines and plot threads, because you don't have the time to kill in the film as they have in novels. All those pages with detours and plots and different storylines. But films add a lot, and you gotta keep it moving.”
“The dream and the film are the juxtaposition of images in order to answer a question.”
“If the populace knew with what idiocy they were ruled, they would revolt.”
“If thou shouldst paint mountains in a good style and to look natural, take some large stones full of cracks and copy them.”
“The only time I ever really consider retiring is when I get fed up with the press. Which is often.”

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