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When I was about to break a world record and become well known, my mother used to say that for her the important thing was for me to become a doctor - a career which had not been possible in her generation and in her society. Sport was something to be set aside. ↗

— Roger Bannister

#aside #become #been #break #career

Your spikes, which were really quite long then, would catch the material of the track and your shoe would get heavier. I was simply filing them down and rubbing some graphite on the spikes. I thought I would run more effectively. ↗

— Roger Bannister

#down #effectively #filing #get #heavier

I am fully persuaded that thousands of our fellow-men might profit equally by a similar course to mine; but, constitutions not being all alike, a different course of treatment may be advisable for the removal of so tormenting an affliction. ↗

— William Banting

#affliction #alike #am #being #constitutions

Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it obstructed its fair, comfortable progress in the path of life. ↗

— William Banting

#comfortable #destroy #did #evil #fair

Acting is like a high wire act. Your margin for error is very slim. ↗

— Christine Baranski

#acting #error #high #high wire #like

I adore clothes, I adore drinking. I just don't have the time or the inclination to totally indulge in it. ↗

— Christine Baranski

#clothes #drinking #i #inclination #indulge

If I never do another movie, I will have had the privilege of working on one of the big Hollywood movies with top people, creating a world that can only be described as totally cinematic. ↗

— Christine Baranski

#big #cinematic #creating #described #had

It is really hard to do comedy; it takes a lot of energy and focus. It's rather like music: It's a lot of hitting notes precisely. ↗

— Christine Baranski

#energy #focus #hard #hitting #like

Really, can anyone drink several martinis at lunch? ↗

— Christine Baranski

#drink #lunch #martinis #really #several

Usually, it gets worse and worse as they downsize your character; mine just kept getting better. ↗

— Christine Baranski

#character #downsize #gets #getting #getting better