"The athlete must make a devotion of his specialty."

-- Paavo Nurmi

#Athlete Quotes #Devotion Quotes #Specialty Quotes

“For women and men, but especially women, with on camera acting you have to look a certain way. You have to present yourself as the most attractive version of yourself that you can be, and then you're judged based on how attractive you are or if you are the right look for the character.”
“I will say a lot of dancers do such beautiful things for their body and then they smoke a cigarette. I've never been a smoker, but I realized after taking yoga . . . in ballet you're not encouraged to do a lot of breathing. I think in a weird way, a lot of dancers find relief in actually breathing.”
“A certain luxury when you get to writing a novel is to have the space to have your characters just banter.”
“There are always going to be encounters that you kind of wish went differently. But the average fan really isn't fanatical.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Most individuals have always thought themselves not big enough or significant enough to have an effect on the whole planet, a notion which conversely made them think they could afford big arrogance and big greed over its resources.”
“We deal with people that are going through divorces and that are facing life-threatening illnesses, and I'm giving them hope. And to me, I don't think there's anything "lite" about that.”
“The power numbers are nice, but I'm most pleased that I've been consistent. Home runs come from having a consistent approach .”
“I like to paint something that leads me on and on into the unknown, something that I want to see away on beyond ...”

Source : William C. Ketchum, Moses (Grandma) (1996). “Grandma Moses: An American Original”, Smithmark Publishers

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