"Extraordinary people are the Green Berets and the Navy Seals and the Olympic athletes - these are the ones who can face these extraordinary physical challenges and be triumphant."

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Source : "Conversation: Director Jonathan Demme on His New Film and Hero, Carolyn Parker". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. September 20, 2012.

Jonathan Demme

#Athlete Quotes #People Quotes #Challenges Quotes

“I can cook a little bit. I can cook a few Spanish dishes. But, in movies, it looks like I cook much better than I cook.”
“A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.”
“To be polite to everybody except the people they love most is a nervous affectation that afflicts many families ... when they come home, they take off their smiles and soft words, and sit about, spiritually in their underwear. This isn't pretty.”
“the true lady is in theory either a virgin or a lawful wife.”
“There's an inner feeling you get when you get in a situation to do well in a game. It's hard to explain.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I became an ecologist long before I had ever heard the word,”
“I'm a classical ballet dancer, and at the end of the day I want to be with American Ballet Theater, performing classical ballets.”
“If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.”

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