Why am I arguing with a computer?
One of the reasons for putting yourself on the line, is that life is not simply treading water. . . I always felt that once you reach a certain point, you have to try and move ahead.
There is a popular fallacy that falling down is the mark of a poor skater. But the truth is that when one stops falling, he has probably stopped improving.
That's what really makes great skating competitions. When you have two top skaters in good form giving superb performances.
Around the edge of the crowd was a little 13-year-old bouncing up and down with a grin that went from ear to ear. She was so happy for her sister. It was a charming moment, and I think thats the essence of what Emily Hughes is.
Perhaps the single most important thing that we can do to undo the harm we have done is to fix firmly in our minds the thought: the earth is alive.
I always make this joke that I know you were expecting to see the big skirts and the hoops. But that was a long time ago. Artists aren't always seen as real people. If you start out as a teenager, sometimes people want to keep you locked as that. But I'm a woman now.
It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they give up thinking what is charming.
The kind of values for which I was supposed to kill, such as democracy and national independence, were better served, I thought, through non-violent action.