It is easy to go down into Hell. . . ; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - -there's the rub.
Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.
I want to see sunrises in the mountains. You never get to see such things enough in a lifetime. I want to see more.
It's not like I didn't do anything for 10 years and chose a new profession. I've been on the ice a lot. I'm not an outsider.
I'm the sort of person who needs a big mountain in front of me to climb.
Money was never the motivation. It never should be in sports.
When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.
As human beings, when we're young, we're not jaded. As we grow older, we begin to take on ideas of our parents, family of origins and that changes us. We become less fluid sometimes. So for me, I look for roles that are uplifting in many ways - no matter what the race or color of the role is. I want to go beyond that and try to share what I think my gift is and that is we all have this gift of choice. We just don't sometimes realize we have that choice.
Give someone who has faith in you a placebo and call it a hair growing pill, anti-nausea pill or whatever, and you will be amazed at how many respond to your therapy.
Our constancy, same might call it our madness, was necessary to wear down the oppressive forces of the old democracy which, in Spain, was a hundred years behind the times.
My resistance to communication work is because of 15 years with my former wife where we did all this work, but we never got to the core of anything.