Paul Giamatti
American actor
Really? We have to keep bringing up the Nobel debacle?
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What is the thing you are best at that nobody watching can see?
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Just a few days ago. I was overtired.
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Olivia Williams
British actress
In rehearsals. The play is very funny about mothers and daughters, but one of the gags hit a raw nerve.
Björk Guðmundsdóttir
Icelandic singer
Yesterday. Love.
Rory Bremner
Scottish comedian
At John Fortune's funeral. They played Flanders and Swann's Slow Train ("We won't be meeting again") and my heart broke.
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View profile →Yeah, I say put mental health first because if you don't, then you're not going to enjoy your sport and you're not going to succeed as much as you want to. So it's okay sometimes to even sit out the big competitions to focus on yourself because it shows how strong of a competitor and person that you really are rather than just battle through it.
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Post-competition press conference, Ariake Gymnastics Centre, Tokyo Olympics, Rev, 27 July 2021
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Literally can not tell up from down. It's the craziest feeling ever. Not having an inch of control over your body. What's even scarier is since I have no idea where I am in the air, I also have NO idea how I am going to land. Or what I am going to land on. Head/hands/feet back…
When you put others before yourself, and you’d do anything for them.
In dreams, but that’s about it.
Picking up dog poop at home: my sister and I used to take turns.
The Olympics: all my dreams came true in one place.
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