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"I mean you got to thank your parents for giving you the right genes."
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"If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European."
"So I am getting a little bored with defining one type of film as American and the other European or from somewhere else because the division is no longer true."
"If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion."
"It's best to keep America just like that, always in the background, a sort of picture post card which you look at in a weak moment. Like that, you imagine it's always there waiting for you, unchanged, unspoiled, a big patriotic open space with cows and sheep and tenderhearted men ready to bugger everything in sight, man, woman or beast. It doesn't exist, America. It's a name you give to an abstract idea."
"We were very happy when a South African court, which had previously ruled against us, took another look and decided that this material was not obscene and allowed it into the country."
"Every color I can think of and nationality, we were all touched by Dr. King because he made us like each other and respect each other."
"I raised frogs every spring in our house from tadpoles and by end of summer our house was overrun with frogs."
"There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American."
"The English race is the best at weeping and the worst at laughing."
"Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills."
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"One thing is having skated five of the best races I've probably could have skated. It was nice to peak at the right time and to do it in an important time in somebody's career."
"We used to lift weights a couple of times a week, we did a lot of running. I enjoyed the variety."
"I would recommend anybody who gets a chance to see short track skating, make it a point to go out there when Apolo is skating because you won't see anybody better."
"You don't really want to load up a whole lot, probably anything more than four hours before the race. I needed something to make me feel full, but I certainly didn't want it to make me feel stuffed."
"Then going out on the ice usually about 15 minutes before and certain things I would do for the different races, aspects that you run through your mind."
"It's not a sport you get famous at. If I wanted to be famous, I would have stuck with hockey."
"In general, I enjoy athletes who have a strong character who let their abilities speak for themselves."
"We had a party with the rest of the skaters in our trailer and then the next day we were off to see Jimmy Carter. And then we had the World Championships the next weekend, so not a lot of chance to catch up."
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