"I went at each race like there was a gold medal at stake. It wasn't like I ran one hard, then slacked off the next. Every time was my best effort. I didn't know how to go at it any other way."

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Source : Dick Beardsley, Maureen Anderson (2004). “Staying the Course: A Runner's Toughest Race”, p.60, U of Minnesota Press

Dick Beardsley

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“I left Somalia when I was seven years old, but I witnessed a whole year in a war.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“You can play a shoestring if you're sincere.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I don't think it's too hippie to want to clean up the planet so you don't wind up dying of some kind of cancer when you're 45 years old. It enrages me that these big cancer-research organizations can't be bothered to man the front lines of environmental protest.”
“People with really weak characters cause an immense amount of suffering in the world. They destroy whole civilisations.”

Source : Bessie Head, Randolph Vigne (1991). “A gesture of belonging: letters from Bessie Head, 1965-1979”, Heinemann
“Writing a poem is unwriting a knot, like untying a shoelace that is clubbing your foot.”

Source : "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Interview with Pauline T. Newton, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.
“Apparently, a cleaner at Tate Britain... threw out a bag of rubbish, accidentally we are told, that was part of an exhibition supposedly emphasizing 'the finite existence of art'... The cleaner evidently had no time to question the relationship of his or her being to the rubbish bag, and reached the right conclusion.”
“Valentine's Day: the holiday that reminds you that if you don't have a special someone, you're alone.”
“It often requires more courage to suffer in silence than to rebel, more courage not to strike back than to retaliate, more courage to be silent than to speak.”

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