#figure

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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Figure skaters have awful perceptions of hockey players. ↗

— Kristi Yamaguchi

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Time made me change. I gradually woke up to the realization that this is who I am, an author, a public figure, and I couldn't just hide in my study, tapping away at the keyboard and pretend that I didn't have a role to play beyond stringing words together. ↗

— David Guterson

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I'm still trying to figure out what the right line is between myself and the people I play. Sometimes I go too far one way or too far the other. ↗

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

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And so figure skating was a great vehicle for me to kind of be competitive at something, without having to be big. ↗

— Scott Hamilton

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And the fact that I liked to show off and be the center of attention really lends itself to figure skating very well. ↗

— Scott Hamilton

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Half of figure skating is opinion, convincing judges. ↗

— Scott Hamilton

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I didn't want to be the sissy figure skater, you know. ↗

— Scott Hamilton

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Male figure skating is different than female figure skating; we're not America's sweetheart. ↗

— Scott Hamilton

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Without strength and courage it's really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you're alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself. ↗

— Scott Hamilton

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