"When I first started running, I was so embarrassed I'd walk when cars passed me. I'd pretend I was looking at the flowers!"

-- Joan Benoit

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“When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.”
“I believe no gentleman would like to have his family affairs neglected because his wife was filling her head with crotchets and pothooks, and who, because she understood a few scraps of Latin, valued that more than minding her needle or providing her husband's dinner.”

Source : Arnold Edwin Needham, Sarah Fielding (1943). “The Life and Works of Sarah Fielding”
“For me, collecting is sort of a natural extension of being an art dealer, because if you don't want to collect the artist, then you probably shouldn't be representing them.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.”
“Europe is a woman, now middle-aged, who has already had a number of heart attacks and is currently experiencing the biggest health crisis of her life, but one that need not be fatal.”
“I'm an introspective person. I'm not an extrovert.”
“In high school, theater was all I ever wanted to do. I didnt see that I was going to set it aside for so many years and take a right turn into television. Of course, wanting to do theater is something you hear a lot from actors. I think Ive been embarrassed to be in that big cliche.”
“I believe in the runner's high, and I believe that those who are passionate about running are the ones who experience it to the fullest degree possible. To me, the runner's high is a sensational reaction to a great run! It's an exhilarating feeling of satisfaction and achievement. It's like being on top of the world, and truthfully... there's nothing else quite like it!”

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