Dorothy Hamill
Related For me, skateboarding is a lifestyle. I really don't know anything different. My life revolves a... RYAN SHECKLER KATARINA WITT TAVI GEVINSON I won't be skating for the rest of my life, that's for sure. ELVIS STOJKO I don't mind the sparkle - I think it's kind of a tradition in skating. I don't think th... KRISTI YAMAGUCHI LISA LOEB I didn't get into skating to be famous. ERIC HEIDEN KEVIN HART GORAN IVANISEVIC DOROTHY HAMILL JILLIAN HERVEY JENNIFER ANISTON VERA WANG HERSCHEL WALKER I really wanted to make it as a ballet dancer to make my mom proud. But it didn't happen. TRACY ANDERSON SALMA HAYEK I loved gymnastics, and my gymnastics teacher said ballet was essential to help my dance routines in... DARCEY BUSSELL CHARLES SCHWAB BILLIE JEAN KING TRAVIS KALANICK I didn't go to a business school. I didn't really study it. DANIEL S. LOEB I started skating because I loved it. I started when I was three and I didn't know all the sacri... SARAH HUGHES PAUL TAYLOR I did grow up in France, and even though I didn't go to the school or dance with the Paris Opera... BENJAMIN MILLEPIED I didn't even dance at my high school prom, and I have turned down so many movie roles because I... ROMEO MILLER My background is in dance. No, I'm kidding. I was actually really uncoordinated as a child, when... BETH RIESGRAF If the coach is good, I don't think a psychologist is needed. HANSIE CRONJE As for my career, I always said to my kids, 'you don't cry because it's over, you're... PAT BURNS DOROTHY HAMILL I didn't feel a specific pressure to prove myself because I had an actor in the family. I didn&#... KATHERINE WATERSTON CARRIE ANN INABA When my film flops, I believe it is my mistake. There have been times when I didn't come out of ... MAHESH BABU In modeling, my height was a big challenge to overcome, because I was pretty much the shortest girl ... DEVON AOKI JOHN KRASINSKI SYDNEY POLLACK GEORGINA CHAPMAN JOHNNY WEIR LAILA ALI ANITA BAKER I was a weird teenager. My mother was actually worried because I didn't have any interest in dat... KIESZA KID CUDI Everybody is skating well. I had to move my butt a little bit to make it. CHRIS WITTY My first ballet class was on a basketball court. I'm in my gym clothes and my socks trying to do... MISTY COPELAND Some people are born with very little; some are fortunate enough to have it all. When I grew up, we ... CURTIS JACKSON I wanted a good relationship with my mother, and I realized I had a choice: Either I could spend all... CHANDRA WILSON MICHELLE DOCKERY PARIS HILTON I know that I am the kind of person that gets a little bit more nervous than other skaters, but that... CAROLINA KOSTNER TY COBB LYNSEY ADDARIO I didn't finish college; my parents didn't graduate college - we didn't have a pot to pi... BARBARA KRUGER I don't force myself to exercise; I find going to gyms really boring. I find it easier to go for... SARAH BRIGHTMAN KARAN JOHAR I've made apologies to people I needed to, but I can't apologise to people I don't know ... SIENNA MILLER BEN SCHNETZER I started singing in my church choir, and then when I got to middle school, I had the coolest musica... SHANICE WILLIAMS You don't really want to load up a whole lot, probably anything more than four hours before the ... ERIC HEIDEN CONOR MCGREGOR On 'don't ask, don't tell' I was always the same. I said we needed a complete review... JOHN MCCAIN MICHELLE OBAMA I did swimming, gymnastics, dance, and the acting was just a small part. I didn't have pushy par... AARON TAYLOR-JOHNSON I didn't do 'Orange' because I knew it was good. I wanted to do this because it feels go... SAMIRA WILEY When I was younger, I didn't have the finer things in life. It was around me - the cars, the jew... LARENZ TATE BRITTANY HOWARD AYELET WALDMAN I was 17 when I was forced into marriage. I had no hand in it, and I didn't even enjoy being wit... QANDEEL BALOCH I felt disconnected from the decisions made in Washington and, to be honest, really didn't think... CARLY FIORINA Acting was always there, it's true. But for a long time, in my teenage years, I wasn't sure ... BILL SKARSGARD JOHNNY WEIR I don't sing now, because I had polio when I was 15, bulbar polio. This was when the epidemic wa... CHARLIE HADEN I had become so insulated in my world as a mother that I didn't know how to pick up the phone an... PEGGY LIPTON BILL BURR I needed to move, but I haven't had the time to find a place to go. ELISABETH ROHM Obviously we had to study Shakespeare at school, but to be honest, I was not a fan. I found the lang... SAMUEL BARNETT CHRISSY TEIGEN I grew up in Christianity. They preach a lot that you should get married and be a wife and be a virt... LA'PORSHA RENAE DOROTHY HAMILL I knew I didn't want to come out in the 'New Yorker'; it just felt wrong. It needed an A... BINYAVANGA WAINAINA I needed to pay for my horses in Warwickshire, and I couldn't do that off a waitress' wage. EDIE CAMPBELL In my mid-twenties, I said to myself: 'I can't perform anymore!' I didn't know what ... SPENCER KAYDEN My life path has been a blessing and a great learning experience. Skateboarding is my passion and I ... RYAN SHECKLER When I hung up my toe shoes, I didn't look back. In all my years, I have never looked back. PATRICIA MCBRIDE GERARD BUTLER DOLPH LUNDGREN NADIA COMANECI That didn't happen. Still, I had six pretty good years and one where I didn't reach what I w... BRYAN ROBSON I had a portable 8-track player under all my ramps, cranking one of my four 8-tracks - Cars/'Can... JEFF AMENT Some people love Sundays; I don't, particularly. I used to rather dread them when I was younger.... CELIA IMRIE ANTHONY HOPKINS RACHEL MCADAMS NIKI TAYLOR When I saw 'Legally Blonde' on Broadway, I rang my agent and said 'I want to be seen for... SHERIDAN SMITH BESS MYERSON BRIT MORIN TONY HAWK JULIUS ERVING TREVOR NOAH ROCKY MARCIANO When I was in Taiwan, we were there for about 8 months, and I was 11 at the time, so it was definite... DAVID LAMBERT While I circled around and around in my brown rental skates, I studied a group of skaters spinning i... GRACIE GOLD
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MARK HAMILL Mick Jagger's fans bought records with their allowances. Sinatra's people bought them out of... PETE HAMILL I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. T... PETE HAMILL The most successful terrorist group in the United States for almost 70 years was the Ku Klux Klan. T... PETE HAMILL Character roles only indicate that they're very different from who you are as a person, and for ... MARK HAMILL I debated in high school! If you told things that weren't true or just made things out of whole ... MARK HAMILL I love the fact that, one time, my face was on the back of a cereal box - probably 3-CPO's - and... MARK HAMILL In high school, I had to hide my comic book side, my nerd side from the civilian world so they would... MARK HAMILL I never saw myself so much as an actor. I wanted to be a cartoonist like Charles M. Schulz and creat... MARK HAMILL What would Chaucer have written about if men were perfect? PETE HAMILL At the last Celebration I spoke before an auditorium full of people and I could just feel the affect... MARK HAMILL I think 'Comic Book: The Movie' is the apex of my career in terms of making a personal state... MARK HAMILL When you say 'comic book' in America, people think of Mickey Mouse, and Archie. It has a con... MARK HAMILL If it's a beautiful day, I love taking walks. The walks are always aimless. PETE HAMILL The Anarchists set off World War I with a gunshot in Sarajevo - but they faded away. It wasn't t... PETE HAMILL 'The Daily News' and 'Post' gave me my life, and I want to see them survive. PETE HAMILL Every reporter inhales skepticism. You interview people, and they lie. You face public figures, dili... PETE HAMILL I don't think it's fair to compare Dick Cheney to Vader - it's unfair to Vader. MARK HAMILL Writing is so entwined with my being that I can't imagine a life without it. PETE HAMILL To me, doctors and nurses and teachers are heroes, doing often infinitely more difficult work than t... PETE HAMILL The Huffingtonpost.com does not pay its writers. Tina Brown's thedailybeast.com does pay its wri... PETE HAMILL Sentimentality is a false sense of self. PETE HAMILL There is a growing feeling that perhaps Texas is really another country, a place where the skies, th... PETE HAMILL Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a newspaperman originally in Colombia. He talked about - and I agree - ho... PETE HAMILL As a reporter, going around, you hear stories you can't prove, which means you can't put the... PETE HAMILL In the 1950s, when I was hanging around Sullivan's Gym and the Gramercy Gym, there were fixed fi... PETE HAMILL An independent Brooklyn probably would have built a new stadium for the Dodgers, so today there migh... PETE HAMILL It's easy to be a tough guy when no one's going to come knocking on your door. PETE HAMILL Boxing is one of those leftovers from a more primitive past that should be finished off and killed. ... PETE HAMILL If you're the oldest in a large family, you tend to do everything yourself, particularly if you ... PETE HAMILL I live in a sort of insular world. It's mostly my family, my house, staying home and working. MARK HAMILL All good sports reporters know that the best stories are in the loser's locker room. PETE HAMILL Everybody who went to Vietnam carries his or her own version of the war. Only 10 percent engaged in ... PETE HAMILL Vietnam should have taught us that mindless anti-Communism is not a cause worth killing or dying for... PETE HAMILL Amazon.com isn't the same as going down an aisle. The same as record stores. You'll go for B... PETE HAMILL Sinatra slowly found a way to allow tenderness into the performance while remaining manly. He perfec... PETE HAMILL Part of me always longed to do just one more film and see what Luke would be like now that he's ... MARK HAMILL I'm so much like Luke Skywalker I guess I always will be. MARK HAMILL When I was in the navy, I wanted to go to Paris and the Academie Julian. I never did. Mexico City to... PETE HAMILL I've lived in other cities - Rome, Dublin, Mexico City - but I was born in New York City, and I ... PETE HAMILL You know how there are some stars out there who know how to market themselves? I don't have that. MARK HAMILL Acting in 'Star Wars' I felt like a raisin in a giant fruit salad, and I didn't even know who the ca... MARK HAMILL I think theatre has given me the opportunity to show what a character actor I can be. MARK HAMILL Luke: Uncle Owen, this R2 unit has a bad motivator. MARK HAMILL Luke : How did my father die? MARK HAMILL [griping about Tatooine] MARK HAMILL The world was a grand confusion. Finally, when I was drunk, and my mind couldn’t do what I wanted ... PETE HAMILL I'm surprised at people who have a passion for Mitt Romney, because he's taken every positio... MARK HAMILL I wanted to sit there forever, drinking in bitter satisfaction, using someone else as a license. In ... PETE HAMILL In the '70s, the newspaper guild managed to get people paid what they were worth, but the report... PETE HAMILL There are human beings who will be helped in understanding our times through the diaries of Edward R... PETE HAMILL This is truly marvelous work: full of mystery, nostalgia, joy, The Color of Whimsy. PETE HAMILL God is not a power or principle or law, but he is a living, creating, communicating person -- a mind... ROBERT HAMILL The only way to fight nostalgia is to listen to somebody else's nostalgia PETE HAMILL One of the first things that helped me to understand certain things about writing was seeing 'Th... PETE HAMILL Reporters now are better educated than the crowd I knew when I broke in. We still had guys shaped by... PETE HAMILL "The wanderer in Manhattan must go forth with a certain innocence, because New York is best seen ... PETE HAMILL He steps on stage and draws the sword of rhetoric, and when he is through, someone is lying wounded ... PETE HAMILL He was a very quiet guy, unlike the rest of the rabble, ... He had a low-key, wicked sense of humor.... PETE HAMILL He became out of step with the basic audience, because they didn't believe it. And I think that was ... PETE HAMILL It's a good demonstration of will for any terrorist outfit to consider. If they knocked out every su... PETE HAMILL Say what you will about him Ed Koch is still the best show in town. PETE HAMILL [griping about Tatooine] If there's a bright center to the universe, you're on the planet that it's ... MARK HAMILL I have a sneaking suspicion that if there were a way to make movies without actors, George Lucas wou... MARK HAMILL I can't tell you how much we laughed on the set to have Alec Guinness in a scene with a big, furry d... 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I said, 'I'm going to the United States to study with Stella Adler and do movies because nob... 
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