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Retiring was hard. I'd spent 15 years doing something I loved, but when you get older everything seems to go. When I started spending too long with the physio and the doctor, I knew it was time to call it a day. But I had no preparation for being retired and I didn't know what to do.

~Daley Thompson

Topics: Being Call Day Doctor Doing Everything Get Go Had Hard Knew Know Long Loved Older Preparation Retired Retiring Seems Something Spending Spent Started Time Too Years You

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If you work hard in real life, people tend to get in your way - either from inertia or prejudice - and they stop you achieving things. It's the worst thing about real life compared with sports, where you generally get what you deserve: if you're the fastest guy, you win; there are no other games being played.

~Daley Thompson

Topics: About Achieving Being Compared Deserve Either Fastest Games Generally Get Guy Hard Inertia Life Other People Played Prejudice Real Real Life Sports Stop Tend Thing Things Way Where Win Work Work Hard Worst Worst Thing You Your

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People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really well and all that guff before they've achieved anything. It doesn't work like that. You have to spend five or six years being relatively rubbish and put up with it. For that you don't deserve to be getting lottery money.

~Daley Thompson

Topics: Achieved Any Anything Before Being Deserve Expect Five Getting Kids Like Lottery Money More Paid People Put Really Relatively Rubbish Serve Six Spend Treated Up Want Well Work Years You

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The notion of being on a cop show was appealing, just because it's one of those tick boxes in a career.

~Dallas Roberts

Topics: Appealing Because Being Boxes Career Cop Just Just Because Notion Show Those Tick

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I believe that every human being is sufficiently depraved that when we get to Heaven, no one will be able to say, 'I merited this.'

~Dallas Willard

Topics: Able Being Believe Every Get Heaven Human Human Being Say Sufficiently Will I Believe I Believe That

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One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one.

~Dalton Trumbo

Topics: Act Being Disadvantages Like Obliged Occasionally You

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This is my favourite thing about being raised in Africa: we don't do labels very well; we don't do this, 'Oh, you're a Democrat; oh, you're a Republican.' Because we live in the real world.

~Dambisa Moyo

Topics: About Africa Because Being Democrat Favourite Labels Live Oh Raised Real Real World Republican The Real World Thing Very Well World You

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Quiet people, people who aren't given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words - they're also fun to play, but you find yourself needing a laser precision in those roles. Otherwise you just sort of stand around, looking slightly brain-dead. You worry about being uninteresting.

~Damian Lewis

Topics: About Also Around Being Economic Emotional Find Fun Given Just Laser Looking Needing Otherwise Outburst People Play Precision Quiet Roles Slightly Sort Stand Those Uninteresting Who Words Worry You Yourself

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I'm not an American, but I have this weird connection to America in different ways through my dad living here for five years, my godfather being an American who I'm very close to.

~Damian Lewis

Topics: America American Being Close Connection Dad Different Different Ways Five Godfather Here Living Through Very Ways Weird Who Years

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A lot of these American actors have this - in my view - misplaced view that they have to look like Action Man. The trouble is, they all run the risk of being interchangeable.

~Damian Lewis

Topics: Action Actor American Being Like Look Lot Man Misplaced Risk Run Trouble View

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