#ted

I don't really think they saw anything in me, except the fact that I was interested in it. Some of the kids would miss a week here and miss a week there, I think they could see that I really enjoyed it. ↗

— Dorothy Hamill

#could #enjoyed #except #fact #here

I hated to read. My mother could not get me to read. I'm going through the same thing with my daughter now. I love to read now, but I don't remember reading. ↗

— Dorothy Hamill

#daughter #get #going #hated #i

I wanted to learn how to skate backwards and they wouldn't help me and they went off and left me on my own. ↗

— Dorothy Hamill

#help #how #i #learn #left

It was very much like Norman Rockwell: small town America. We walked to school or rode our bikes, stopped at the penny candy store on the way home from school, skated on the pond. ↗

— Dorothy Hamill

#bikes #candy #candy store #home #like

People think being remembered most for one character is a negative thing, but I don't. I never expected to be remembered for anything! ↗

— Mark Hamill

#being #character #expected #i #most

When I was involved with 'Star Wars,' I was very interested in all the backstories, and I used to pepper George with all kinds of questions about anything that crossed my mind, because I was very, very into it. But when the job came to an end, I had to move on. ↗

— Mark Hamill

#anything #because #came #crossed #end

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

#been #conform #constraint #dictates #government

When I first started to write, I was aware of being queer, but I didn't write about it. Queer poems would probably not have been accepted by the editors I sent them to. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#accepted #aware #been #being #editors

What interested me was not news, but appraisal. What I sought was to grasp the flavor of a man, his texture, his impact, what he stood for, what he believed in, what made him what he was and what color he gave to the fabric of his time. ↗

— John Gunther

#believed #color #fabric #flavor #gave

Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world - the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism. ↗

— David Ben-Gurion

#fight #heroism #image #intellectual #israel