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"I'm just a tough old woman."
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"So it's really nice after about a year and a half to get back on stage and flex those old muscles."
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"If you're a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring."

"Old #64 chose... a gentle jog, fast enough to prove I was alive, slow enough to savor the cheers. They washed over me. They warmed me. I knew I could live without them but I loved them."
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"No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am."
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"Once you are over 30, 35 years old, I think everyone should get down to the gym and start moving again."

"I would like to go to University and be like a normal 20 year old."

"He tells you stories, but then, after a while, when you want more, he doesn't give you more. He insists on this old elaboration, the old stories that never changes."
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"To be a friend of the Everglades is not necessarily to spend time wandering around out there."

"Whoever wants me to talk, I'll come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades."

"The problem of the environment is the extension of good housekeeping of the thinking woman."

"Child welfare ought really to cover all sorts of topics, such as better water and sanitation and good roads, and clean streets and public parks and playgrounds."

"The miracle of light pours over the green and brown expanse of saw grass and of water, shining and slowly moving, the grass and water that is the meaning and the central fact of the Everglades. It is a river of grass."

"The wealth of south Florida, but even more important, the meaning and significance of south Florida lies in the black muck of the Everglades and the inevitable development of this country to be the great tropic agricultural center of the world."
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