#real

I'm not really cool, or dashing, or any of those things. ↗

— Scott Thompson

#cool #i #really #things #those

Praise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the same level. If you get a great review, it's really thrilling for about ten minutes. If you get a bad review, it's really crushing for ten minutes. Either way, you go on. ↗

— Ann Patchett

#bad #bad review #criticism #crushing #either

Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without. ↗

— Walter Pater

#conjecture #each #ever #experience #group

Well, it's still another two-day competition, so it's really important to show that you're ready. Every meet is really important right now. You've got to keep showing you can hit. ↗

— Carly Patterson

#competition #every #got #hit #important

The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War-when I really think about them they all seem about as likely as the parting of the Red Sea. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#civil #civil war #constitution #declaration #i

I think we're all really strong and we just need to keep working really hard. If we go out there and do our best we'll win again. All we need to do is hit. ↗

— Carly Patterson

#best #go #hard #hit #i

If they did it like they did it in '96 or whenever, just picking it from one meet, what if someone had the meet of their life but they're not usually a good competitor? That could be really bad for the team. So, I think this is the best way. ↗

— Carly Patterson

#best #best way #competitor #could #did

Probably Romania and China and Russia. I think they're all working really hard to beat us right now. ↗

— Carly Patterson

#china #hard #i #i think #now

I mean, I've never really had much security, to be honest. ↗

— Aaron Paul

#honest #i #mean #much #never

Popstars really draws you in. It's fascinating. It's interesting to watch people thrown together in that kind of a situation. Even if the egos weren't involved and they weren't trying to be world famous. It's the Real World, only better. ↗

— Scott Patterson

#draws #egos #even #famous #fascinating