When you are perfect, is there anywhere else to go?
Running is not who I am; it's something I do; it's something I love.
Fear is gradually replaced by excitement and a simple desire to see what you can do on the day.
Anyone can train hard. Do you have the discipline to recover?
When you're a dreamer, heart break and failure come with the territory, but I can tell you it's worth it, because it's a way of living that is both moving and memorable.
I learned a long time ago that the last thing any woman should be thinking about is being 'skinny' or 'thin. ' To me, those words imply weakness, fragility, the inability to stand firm in a storm. If you want to change your body, aim for 'athletic. ' An athletic body is healthy, strong, and built to thrive. An athletic body can take many shapes.
When you recognize that failing doesn't make you a failure, you give yourself permission to try all sorts of things.
I grew up in Detroit. So my mother always loved big band music.
Native people such as the Cherokees are just as human and complex and real as Americans are, and our nation needs to respect American Indian cultures and traditions.
Cinema, for me, has always been something like music composed with photographic images.
The first time I saw a picture of [fabled actress] Ethel Barrymore - she was on Broadway and she was wearing pearls. I thought, "That's who I should grow up to be. " It's odd, because it was her physical image that I wanted; I had no idea what it was like actually to be her. In those days, we weren't bombarded by images the way we are now, and the ones we did have were more vivid in people's minds.