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"It feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven't been in a high school for about a year. So um, it's kinda interesting coming back, and y'know seeing the lockers, with all the signs, the handmade signs, so being in high school again is a little bit strange but in a good way."
"Being a mum has made me a lot more responsible, it's not just me anymore. But it's also brought me the most joy ever!"
"I'm such a video game fan that being able to do voices in video games is just fantastic."
"I feel it's important to show that one thing that you do doesn't define you as a human being. It doesn't mean there aren't ramifications or you shouldn't pay for that but its not who you are."
"Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise."
"Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had."
"Here was a fragment of Goddess myth that, through all its permutations, had somehow escaped being turned on its head. It was the perfect springboard for the sort of novel I wanted to write."
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"You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one."
"It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men, just like me."
"Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics."
"I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little."
"The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them."
"You have to be able to be a good loser. You have to be okay knowing you're going to fail every day in something without getting mad and upset."
"It really means a lot that I won the gold medal - but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same."
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