#kat

Kate is going to come back, she is going to be super-strong again. Everybody is going to want her again because she is that kind of person. She is very professional and beautiful and she is going to be around forever. ↗

— Helena Christensen

#around #back #beautiful #because #come

I want to be the first lady to land a quadruple jump in competition. As I grow older, I know that my skating style will develop and mature. ↗

— Sasha Cohen

#competition #develop #first #first lady #grow

We've certainly learned a lot of lessons from Katrina, from Rita. Rita was better than Katrina. We're doing a better job planning. We're closer - more closely aligned with the Department of Defense. These things would be positive things if we were to have another attack. ↗

— Michael Chertoff

#another #attack #better #better job #certainly

In childhood I developed a serious throat infection, and my heart stopped beating. I recovered from that illness with a voice that boomed forth like Kate Smith's! ↗

— Patsy Cline

#childhood #developed #forth #heart #i

Skating has always been a major area of interest to me. ↗

— Sasha Cohen

#area #been #interest #major #me

Skating is big in Chicago. There's a lot of hockey; a lot of the boys play hockey. And figure skating is big. ↗

— Joan Cusack

#chicago #figure #figure skating #hockey #lot

When the going got tough, I really had to draw on many of the same competitive instincts I did when I was skating. I really had to put my head down and stay positive. I had to fight. ↗

— Peggy Fleming

#did #down #draw #fight #going

Giving life to music through skating was something I wanted to be known for. ↗

— Peggy Fleming

#i #known #life #music #skating

I think skating helped me find myself. ↗

— Peggy Fleming

#helped #i #i think #me #myself

It seems like I've only shut my eyes for a few minutes, but when I open them, I flinch at the sight of Haymitch sitting a couple of feet from my bed. Waiting. Possibly for several hours if the clck is right. I think about hollering for a witness, but I'm going to have to face him sooner or later. Haymitch leans forward and dangles something on a thin white wire in front of my nose. It's hard to focus on, but I'm pretty sur what it is. He drops it in to the sheets. "That is your earpiece. I will give you exactly one more chance to wear it. If you remove it from your ear again, I'll have you fitted with this." He holds up some sort of metal headgear that I instantly name the head shackle. "It's alternative audio unit that locks around your skull and under your chin until it's opened with a key. And I'll have the only key. If for some reason you're clever enough to disable it" ---- Haymitch dumps the head shackle on the bed and whips out a tiny silver chip--- "I'll authorize them to surgically implant this transmitter into your ear so that I may speak to you twenty-four hours a day." Haymitch in my head full-time. Horrifying. "I'll keep the earpiece in," I mutter "Excuse me?" He says "I'll keep the earpiece in!" I say loud enough to wake half the hospital. "You sure? Because I'm equally happy with any of the three options," he tells me "I'm sure," I say. I scrunch up the earpiece protectivley in my fist and fling the head shakle back in his face with my free hand, but he catches it easily. Probably was expecting me to throw it. "Anything else?" Haymitch rises to go. "While I was waiting. . . I ate your lunch." My eyes take in the empty stew bowl and tray on my bed table. "I'm going to report you," I mumble into my pillow. "You do that sweetheart." He goes out, safe in the knowledge that I'm not the reporting kind. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#haymitch-and-katniss #equality