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Dorothy Hamill

"It was very much like Norman Rockwell: small town America. We walked to school or rode our bikes, stopped at the penny candy store on the way home from school, skated on the pond."

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"It was very much like Norman Rockwell: small town America. We walked to school or rode our bikes, stopped at the penny candy store on the way home from school, skated on the pond."

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Donna Grant

"I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America."

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Donna Grant

"There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home."

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Donna Grant

"Home was not a perfect place. But it was the only home they had and they could hope to make it better."

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Donna Grant

"All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war; they make it tour the world."

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Donna Grant

"An expert is somebody who is more than 50 miles from home, has no responsibility for implementing the advice he gives, and shows slides."

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Donna Grant

"As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was a sort of communal embrace. Welcome home."

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Donna Grant

"Where thou art that is home."

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Donna Grant

"We should be the natural home for the millions of Britons of immigrant origin. But we're not. Because too often we've sounded like people who wish they hadn't come here at all."

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Donna Grant

"I know what I write about seems exotic to a lot of people, but not for me. I pulled up to an old trading post and saw a few elderly Navajos sitting on a bench. I felt right at home."

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Donna Grant

"What my home life is like now is great."

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Dorothy Hamill
"I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal."

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Dorothy Hamill
"It was very much like Norman Rockwell: small town America. We walked to school or rode our bikes, stopped at the penny candy store on the way home from school, skated on the pond."

Home

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Dorothy Hamill
"I wanted to learn how to skate backwards and they wouldn't help me and they went off and left me on my own."

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Dorothy Hamill
"I hated to read. My mother could not get me to read. I'm going through the same thing with my daughter now. I love to read now, but I don't remember reading."

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Dorothy Hamill
"My coach was a great politician, so he did most of the work. He was good."

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Dorothy Hamill
"I was a bratty little sister. I was the youngest of three, and I often felt as though I didn't fit in."

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Dorothy Hamill
"In group lesson number six I think we learned how to turn backwards and then just kind of wiggle. That wasn't really skating backward, but I guess I was going in the right direction."

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Dorothy Hamill
"I was just ice skating. I had no concept of that. In those days you couldn't see the judges. I was this little person on the ice and they were just people that would stand around the boards."

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Dorothy Hamill
"I don't really think they saw anything in me, except the fact that I was interested in it. Some of the kids would miss a week here and miss a week there, I think they could see that I really enjoyed it."

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Dorothy Hamill
"It's different today than it was then. In those days we were strictly amateurs. If I had wanted to stay in for the '80 Olympics, my parents couldn't have afforded it."

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