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• They're [sportsmen] willing to give up a lot of other things that perhaps we all enjoy doing: eating and drinking and playing or whatever. They give up an awful lot to perform at the highest level.

  Jill Douglas

  Giving Up, Drinking, Levels

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• I'm such an awful faker. Everything that comes out of my mouth needs to be the real deal. Not that I ever try to be deceiving, but sometimes it takes a while to find your voice and find what you want to say.

  Steve Grand

  Real, Voice, Trying

  "EXCLUSIVE! The Real Deal: An Interview With Kickstarter King Steve Grand". Boy Culture Interview, www.boyculture.com. February 28, 2014.

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• I think for the foreseeable future, the truth is going to be awful and funny all at the same time.

  John Hodgman

  Thinking, Truth Is

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 21, 2008.

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• I can't imagine trying to be in recovery. I mean it would be hard enough with just life going along in a nice way, but then when awful stuff happens, how you maintain the strength to get through it?

  Allison Janney

  Nice, Recovery, Mean

  "Interview: ‘Mom’ star Allison Janney talks multi-cam drama, comic grieving". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. April 2, 2015.

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• I had the heaviest paper round in Ilkley, West Yorks, and if you look at my shoulders one is still lower than the other. I also did a milk round for a day. It was awful. I was a very surly milkman, because it was very cold, very dark and very early. I am a lark, not an owl, but not in winter when it's chilly. Apart from that I went straight into gardening at 15.

  Alan Titchmarsh

  Dark, Winter, Owl

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Like a jerk, I went to a nutritionist and I ate the most repulsive, awful things. I didn't allow myself to eat chocolate cake and french fries and cheeseburgers.

  Sally Field

  Cake, Chocolate, Jerk

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. November 16, 2012.

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• People are capable of doing an awful lot when they have no choice and I had no choice. Courage is when you have choices.

  Terry H. Anderson

  People, Choices, Capability

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• I may have had a tough break, but I have an awful lot to live for.

  Lou Gehrig

  Might, Tough, Break

  "Lou Gehrig ‘luckiest man’ speech full text". www.washingtontimes.com. July 3, 2014.

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• In the end we are all sacked and it's always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life. If you are elevated there comes a day when you are demoted. Even Prime Ministers.

  Alan Clark

  Inevitable Death, Political, Politics

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• From behind the shadow of the still small voice — more awful than tempest or earthquake — more sure and persistent than day and night — is always sounding full of hope and strength to the weariest of us all, Be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.

  Thomas Hughes

  Cheer, Night, Earthquakes

  "The Manliness of Christ". Book by Thomas Hughes, Part VIII, 1879.

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• For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities.

  Richard Powers

  Doors, Possibility, Closing

  "Magic Powers" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2003.

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• I didn't grow up imagining myself as an opera composer. Only once in my entire adolescence did I attend an opera. I went and saw Aida at the old Met, didn't understand a thing about it, and thought it was pretty awful. But I think I had it in my genes without even realising it.

  John Adams

  Growing Up, Thinking, Opera

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• Creation sleeps! 'T is as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause,- An awful pause! prophetic of her end.

  Edward Young

  Life, Nature, Sleep

  Edward Young, John Doran, James Nichols (1854). “The Complete Works, Poetry and Prose of the Rev. Edward Young, LL.D.: Revised and Collated with the Earliest Editions. To which is Prefixed A Life of the Author”, p.3

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• I cling to the fantasy that I could have done something more creative. Like actually writing a script, or writing a book. But the awful truth is that I... probably can't!

  Hugh Grant

  Book, Writing, Creativity

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• When I was sectioned for six months, that was one of the worst experiences of my life, not being able to go out and have freedom. Having experienced it, it's almost inexplicably awful.

  Adam Ant

  Six Months, Able, Mental Illness

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• Proportion is all; and, in sports at school, I lost it by surrendering to the awful significance of my self-consciousness. Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.

  Andre Dubus

  Sports, School, Self

  Andre Dubus (2010). “Broken Vessels: Essays”, p.19, Open Road Media

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• The world is full of men and women who work too much, sleep too little, hardly ever exercise, eat poorly, and are always struggling or failing to find adequate time with their families. We are in a perpetual hurry-constantly rushing from one activity to another, with little understanding of where all this activity is leading us. . . . The world has gone and got itself in an awful rush, to whose benefit I do not know. We are too busy for our own good. We need to slow down. Our lifestyles are destroying us. The worst part is, we are rushing east in search of a sunset.

  Matthew Kelly

  Struggle, Sunset, Sleep

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• The Europeans are all deeply tainted with prejudices, both ecclesiastical and temporal, which they can never get rid of. They are all infected with episcopal and presbyterian creeds, and confessions of faith. They all believe that great Principle which has produced this boundless universe, Newton's universe and Herschell's universe, came down to this little ball, to be spit upon by Jews. And until this awful blasphemy is got rid of, there never will be any liberal science in the world.

  John Adams

  Believe, Principles, Prejudice

  John Adams (2004). “The Portable John Adams”, p.525, Penguin

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• I know an awful lot of Hollywood people, who are so self-important, I can't understand it.

  Mickey Spillane

  Self, People, Important

  Interview with Michael Carlson, Crime Time, 2001.

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• I imagine like most of us that I'd like obscene amounts of money but the people I met and worked with who have those obscene amounts of money and have obscene amounts of fame have awful lives. Really. I mean hideously compromised lives. And I can go anywhere. No one knows who I am.

  Jason Isaacs

  Mean, Who I Am, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Actresses are such very dull people off the stage. We are only delightful and brilliant when we are doing what we are told to do. Off stage we are awful chumps.

  Edith Evans

  People, Actresses, Dull

  "Dame Edith Evans, Ned's girl". Book by Bryan Forbes, Chapter 12, 1977.

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• But if there be an hereafter,And that there is, conscience, uninfluenc'dAnd suffer'd to speak out, tells every man,Then must it be an awful thing to die;More horrid yet to die by one's own hand.

  Robert Blair

  Men, Hands, Speaks Out

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• I'm astonished how little fright I have of my own imagination. It really does baffle me that I don't get more scared because I'm capable of thinking up things that are so awful. On any given day I can imagine the worst.

  Robert Reed

  Thinking, Imagination, Doe

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• Now I tell you the downside of this is you feel awful, but the upside is you feel terrific.

  Peter Cook

  Drug, Feels, Terrific

  Peter Cook, William Cook (2013). “Tragically I Was an Only Twin: The Comedy of Peter Cook”, p.365, Random House

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• I can't run. I start getting twinges. If I were filmed running, it would be awful.

  Ben Barnes

  Running, Would Be, Ifs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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