Figure Skating Quotes - Page 2

• It was a long period of time where I tried to figure out what worked, what didn't work.

  Josh Lucas

  Long, Figures, Periods

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. September 24, 2002.

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• The difference between being a winner and being a loser is how you pick yourself up again, especially when you're down for the third or fourth or twentieth time!

  Susan Humphreys

  Success, Sports, Perseverance

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• My skating is a very emotional thing that comes from the heart, never doing it for the medal.

  Debi Thomas

  Heart, Emotional, Skating

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• I think television often has dismissed younger people. They figure, well, they're not really watching news, that's not our audience.

  Kurt Loder

  Thinking, People, News

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• When I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past.

  Fernando Flores

  Past, Prison, Embrace

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• Just because you didn't start out perfect doesn't mean you can't have an excellent result in the end.

  Debi Thomas

  Success, Sports, Perseverance

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• It takes a lot of patience and a lot of time to create something worthwhile.

  Elvis Stojko

  Worthwhile

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• I'd love to talk to Angelina Jolie. On my show I would love her because she's a mysterious, mysterious figure.

  Isaac Mizrahi

  Mysterious, Figures, Shows

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• I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Writing, Play, Pieces

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• No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.

  Albrecht Durer

  Taken, Men, Perfect

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• I took some time off to enjoy my life, but figure skating is something I love and something I will continue doing for the rest of my life.

  Oksana Baiul

  Skating, Figures, Enjoy

  Q&As, www.goldenskate.com. March 7, 2003.

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• I figure there are a few actors like Marlon Brando, George C. Scott and Laurence Olivier who have been touched by the hand of God. I'm in the next bunch.

  John Forsythe

  Hands, Actors, Next

  "Actor John Forsythe Dies at 92", www.foxnews.com. April 2, 2010.

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• Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.

  Irwin Shaw

  Figures, Sissy, Deals

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• I want all the gold that there is out there — everything that exists in figure skating. In all events, in all competitions.

  Adelina Sotnikova

  Competition, Gold, Events

  "17-Year-Old Gold Medalist Vows To Dominate The Figure Skating World" by Tony Manfred, www.businessinsider.com. February 21, 2014.

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• I think people figure out early in their lives what currency they can work in.

  Merrill Markoe

  Thinking, People, Currency

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• During my practice sessions, I had walked all around the rink examining each corner. I make a habit of doing this before every major competition, to become familiar with the angles. Then I can envision what it will look and feel like when I am the only one on the ice going into a combination jump, skating backwards or getting ready for my triple Lutz. I know exactly where I will be, and so when it comes time to actually perform my routine, ever step and element will be like deja vu.

  Josee Chouinard

  Sports, Ice, Competition

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• It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along

  Nathan Lane

  Cliche, Figures

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• By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around.

  Barry Sonnenfeld

  Definitions, Firsts, Figures

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• Nobody gets lucky all the time. Nobody can win all the time. Nobody's a robot. Nobody's perfect.

  Johnny Weir

  Winning, Perfect, Robots

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• I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure.

  Camille Claudel

  Fire, Squash, Hammers

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• I still have so much passion to perform... That's who Johnny Weir is: I'm a figure skater, I'm an athlete. I want to have fun and enjoy it.

  Johnny Weir

  Fun, Passion, Athlete

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• Figure skating is a bit dated - it's like that tweed jacket you pull out of the back of your closet from time to time, and I'm going to try to Chanel it up a little bit.

  Johnny Weir

  Trying, Tweed, Skating

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• There are a couple of projects that are sort of on the plate; I haven't closed any of them yet. I'm trying to figure out which one is going to be the best one for me.

  Jay Hernandez

  Couple, Trying, Being The Best

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• A tree against the sky possesses the same interest, the same character, the same expression as the figure of a human.

  Georges Rouault

  Character, Expression, Sky

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• In order to figure out how to make atoms compute, you have to learn how to speak their language and to understand how they process information under normal circumstances.

  Seth Lloyd

  Order, Atoms, Information

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