"I raised you to be a thoroughbred. When thoroughbreds run, they wear blinders to keep their eyes focused straight ahead with no distractions, no other horses. They hear the crowd, but they donâ€™t listen. They just run their own race. Thatâ€™s what you have to do. Donâ€™t listen to anyone comparing you to me or to anyone else. You just run your own race."

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Source : "Running My Own Race" by Julie Carlson Miller, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 21, 2013.

Marlo Thomas

#Running Quotes #Horse Quotes #Eye Quotes

“Interest in certain themes doesn't mandate a personal stake or personal experience of those themes. I've killed people in plays, but no one asks me what it's like to kill people.”
“I think.' she said, 'that sometimes we don't feel the things that we are. But others can feel them.”
“No habit has any real hold on you other than the hold you have on it.”
“No one is ever more him/herself than when they really laugh. Their defenses are down. It's very Zen-like, that moment. They are completely open.”
“I collect jewelry for a story - so something I got on a trip or something I got from my family. You know it always needs to have a meaning for me.”

Source : Source: www.harpersbazaar.com
“I am still attracted to stories about people who are considered to be on the outside of society. I still seek inspiration from those stories.”

Source : "A Minute With: Mira Nair on Salaam Bombay". Interview with Shilpa Jamkhandikar, www.reuters.com. March 22, 2013.
“Um, well, I made a new CD called 'Dream With Me' and it's out now, and I'm really excited about it.”
“How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.”

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