"When you start you're trying to achieve staying alive and getting home. If you can do both of those, then you stand a chance of breaking the record."

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Ellen MacArthur

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“I've always described parts as tattoos. For actors our tattoos are in the form of films.”
“I think sensuality is a part of me. It's not all of me, but it's a part of who I am.”
“Some of today's athletes do not have that kind of pride. They left school at 16, have never had a job in their life and are getting Lottery funding, earning money as an athlete.”
“The Latin proverb, homo homini lupus — man is a wolf to man—... is a libel on the wolf, which is a gentle animal with other wolves.”
“Your stockings prove your virtues. Be certain they are clean and free of tears.”
“Love and happiness inextricably combined? I wanted love stories to coincide with war stories, I wanted hope for my characters, I wanted a sense of a future. So do they. So does the reader. But perhaps I shouldn't speak for everyone when I say that love and happiness are interdependent. In my own experience, happiness came with love. Specifically, my wife. That's when my own apathy and stasis ended for good.”
“I have a very solo career. I only write with people that I really adore.”
“I will tell you a little secret about archaeologists, dear Reader. They all pretend t be very high-minded. They claim that their sole aim in excavation is to uncover the mysteries of the past and add to the store of human knowledge. They lie. What they really want is a spectacular discovery, so they can get their names in the newspapers and inspire envy and hatred in the hearts of their rivals.”

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