John John Florence You just keep doing stuff, and one thing evolves into another. Then suddenly it’s like, ‘Oh, wait, I’m here surfing against Kelly Slater and all these guys I grew up watching.’ – John John Florence Evolves Quotes Grew Quotes Guys Quotes Kelly Quotes Slater Quotes Stuff Quotes Suddenly Quotes Surfing Quotes Wait Quotes Watching Quotes You go to a contest, and it’s like, ‘OK, I’m here for two weeks. All my energy, time, thinking, and everything is going toward that.’ Everything you’re doing is building toward the score at the end. There’s a risk to everything you do. You can take off on a one-foot wave and get hurt; you can take off on a ten-foot wave and get hurt. You just don’t think about it at all. You just go for it. When you kick out of a really big wave, it feels pretty damn good. You want to do it again.
Stewart Butterfield The experience of being able to search back over all your team’s communications for, in our case, millions of messages, is super-valuable. But you don’t know what that’s like until you actually have it. – Stewart Butterfield
Carl Froch If Mikkel Kessler thinks I’m going soft just because I’m a dad then he’s the one who’s gone soft in the head. – Carl Froch
Derrick Grayson My grandmother, who picked cotton, and my mom, who picked cotton as a child – my grandmother had a work ethic. She had 13 children that she had to raise and ended up for a time moving into the projects, but because my grandmother had a work ethic, she didn’t stay in the projects… that’s not how she wanted to raise her children. – Derrick Grayson
Christian Bale I don’t want to know about the lives of other actors and I don’t want people to know too much about me. If we don’t know about the private lives of other actors, that leaves us as clean slates when it comes to playing characters. That’s the point, they can create these other characters and I can believe them. – Christian Bale
Corin Tucker I think there’s a huge lack of political artists in America, and I think it really speaks to our consumeristic culture and how people are driven to be financially successful here. It’s such a shame that we don’t have people who are more inspired than that. – Corin Tucker
Joely Fisher In 1987, when I was 19, I was studying musical theater at Boston’s Emerson College. My sister, Tricia Leigh, told me about a summer acting retreat in Italy. Mom paid, so off we went. – Joely Fisher
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