Rooms Quotes - Page 33

• I focused solely on the sprints, dedicated my time there, got in the weight room, just really did everything I could to make sure I would be in the best position to run for gold.

  Allyson Felix

  Running, Gold, Would Be

  "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. October 25, 2012.

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• I think it's good to have an old fashioned musical as well as new musicals. There's a lot of room for different shows.

  Laura Benanti

  Thinking, Musical, Different

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I didn't intend to be writing - the writer's life. I was just writing what came to me at the time, but it is a map of how this writer had to break many barriers to find, not a room of her own, but a house of her own.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Writing, House, Maps

  "Sandra Cisneros looks back as a writer in search of home". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. October 29, 2015.

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• I'm the only person in my family who can't sing. My grandmother was an opera singer and all of her kids were in church five days a week - or between church and vocal lessons at Carnegie Hall. But my mom had her first studio experience recording on my album. She's used to having to fill the room, so she had to adjust to the microphone and not sing opera.

  Le1f

  Mom, Kids, Grandmother

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I love the fact that we can't explain coincidences. I think it's like sometimes you walk into a crowded room and you'll see a stranger and you feel as if you know her better than the friends that you came with. And the very fact that you can't explain it is what gives it its power, that it lies in some deeper or mysterious realm, I think.

  Pico Iyer

  Lying, Thinking, Giving

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• A child gets a fever in the United States and it's high enough and sustainable enough, all of us can bring a child to an emergency room. Most Haitians never had that opportunity. They didn't have the emergency room to bring them to. Virtually every time your child has 102 fever, you wait for it to die and you have no clean water to give it.

  Sean Penn

  Children, Opportunity, Water

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When I get in there, everything gets blocked out. I just focus on the person in the cage with me. That's all my brain has room for at the time.

  Chris Weidman

  Focus, Brain, Cages

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• Self-expression is something that you've crafted, something that you've found. You've practiced on that piano for hours, you didn't hang out with your buddies, you didn't go after the girls, you stayed in your own little geeky room or you wrote for hours.

  John Leguizamo

  Girl, Self, Expression

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Realistically, there is a danger, of course, when you're going into someone's living room as the same guy every week. But I don't fear it because, I mean, there's really nothing I can do about it. I can try to combat it through the work, and maybe make sure I don't do Sheldon 2.0 in any other projects. But it's just really hard for me to find any negative side effects from this experience.

  Jim Parsons

  Mean, Guy, Trying

  "Emmys: Q&A With Lead Comedy Actor Nominee Jim Parsons". Deadline Hollywood Interview, deadline.com. August 3, 2010.

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• There is room for everyone; there is room for every culture, race, language and point of view.

  Desmond Tutu

  Race, Views, Culture

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• In everything, no matter what it may be, uniformity is undesirable. Leaving something incomplete makes it interesting, and gives one the feeling that there is room for growth. Someone once told me, "Even when building the imperial palace, they always leave one place unfinished." In both Buddhist and Confucian writings of the philosophers of former times, there are also many missing chapters.

  Yoshida Kenko

  Buddhist, Writing, Giving

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• Good peo­ple drink good beer.  Just look around any pub­lic bar­room and you will see: Bad peo­ple drink bad beer.  Think about it.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Beer, Thinking, Bars

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• Acceptance is a small quiet room.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Acceptance, Quiet, Quiet Room

  "Q&A: Cheryl Strayed, Author of Tiny Beautiful Things". Interview Molly McArdle, reviews.libraryjournal.com. April 30, 2012.

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• By the time I get to the locker room, I'm done.

  Tom Osborne

  Done, Lockers, Locker Room

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• I find that I have painted my life, things happening in my life - without knowing. After painting the shell and shingle many times, I did a misty landscape of the mountain across the lake,
  and the mountain became the shape of the shingle - the mountain I saw out my window, the shingle on the table in my room. I did not notice that they were alike for a long time after they
  were painted.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Lakes, Knowing, Long

  Georgia O'Keeffe (1977). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, Viking Pr

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• Take earth for your own large room and the floor of earth carpeted with sunlight and hung round with silver wind for your dancing place.

  May Swenson

  Wind, Dancing, Earth

  May Swenson (2013). “May Swenson: Collected Poems: (Library of America #239)”, p.675, Library of America

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• Once I start writing about something, it goes off rather fast, and sometimes details which might be interesting such as what the room looked like or what somebody said that was not exactly on the same subject tend to get lost.

  Kenneth Koch

  Writing, Interesting, Details

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• In some ways, I was a little bit surprised [by how dominant we were] but then I look at the players in our changing room and it doesn't surprise me because we've got quality in there. If we click and play well like we did in the first half, we can open up any team.

  Rio Ferdinand

  Team, Player, Quality

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• LOVE is to stop making demands on people and give them room to grow.

  Jacque Fresco

  Love Is, People, Giving

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• Never be afraid to let people go if they're not right; often that's the only way you can make room for the right person.

  Stuart Wilde

  People, Way, Persons

  Stuart Wilde (2011). “The Three Keys to Self-Empowerment”, p.60, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• But Shakespeare knows what the sphinx thinks, if anybody does. His genius is penetrative as cold midwinter entering every room, and making warmth shiver in ague fits. I think Shakespeare never errs in his logical sequence in character. He surprises us, seems unnatural to us, but because we have been superficial observers; while genius will disclose those truths to which we are blind.

  William Alfred Quayle

  Character, Thinking, Entering

  William Alfred Quayle (1900). “A Hero and Some Other Folks”

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• I met Keith Haring at SVA college where he was having an art show, later we had a group art show at the Mud Club in NYC. Keith owed me $50, so he gave me a large framed canvas with barking dogs that had large dicks. I painted over Keith's painting to paint flowers for my mom's living room.

  Steve Kaufman

  Mom, Dog, Art

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• For the sacrament to be a spiritually cleansing experience each week, we need to prepare ourselves before coming to sacrament meeting. We do this by deliberately leaving behind our daily work and recreation and letting go of worldly thoughts and concerns. As we do, we make room in our minds and hearts for the Holy Ghost.

  Robert D. Hales

  Letting Go, Heart, Leaving

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• The poor quality of Christian that grows out of our modern evangelistic meeting may be accounted for by the absence of real repentance accompanying the initial spiritual experience of the converts. And the absence of repentance is the result of an inadequate view of sin and sinfulness held by those who present themselves in the inquiry room.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Spiritual, Real

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• People ask why I do monochromatic clothes; the reason is because I'm thinking in proportion to the world. In this room, your head is going to look so much more interesting if it's on a monochromatic column. Whereas I think people think of outfits and gets a little too fussy, a little too detailed. I'm always thinking of the line of a person standing with their head in a room and I always feel like a stalk, or a stem, or a pillar is nicer. I always think of everything architecturally.

  Rick Owens

  Thinking, Clothes, People

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