Scott Hamilton When you turn professional, you become an entertainer, and like every other entertainer, you don’t want to get a bad review. – Scott Hamilton Bad Quotes Entertainer Quotes Professional Quotes Review Quotes So as an amateur Olympic competitor I loved criticism, because it made me better. But now as a professional I don’t really know how to channel it or where to take it, so I don’t take it quite as well. Male figure skating is different than female figure skating; we’re not America’s sweetheart.
Padgett Powell I sat down and wrote, ‘Are your emotions pure? Are they the stuff of heroes or the alloyed mess of the beaten? How do you stand in relation to the potato?’ And it was a lot of fun, and I kept going and woke up at some point in some horror that I had about 142 pages of this. – Padgett Powell
Sydney Pollack I don’t know about liberal bias, but people of a liberal mentality are probably attracted in greater numbers to the arts than people of a conservative mentality. – Sydney Pollack
Sarah Palin The Republican Party would be really smart to absorb as much of the Tea Party movement as possible. – Sarah Palin
Mahershala Ali Oakland, by far, is really gorgeous; it still has these pockets that are really dangerous. Certain things are kind of normal. I think kids out there can be tested in a way where his right of passage ties into a bit of violence and how that has become these markers in masculinity and you being kind of validated after having to pass through things. – Mahershala Ali
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