#shape

To represent your country at a home Olympics is something special and I'm over the moon to be selected for Team GB. I was pleased to get the qualifying time in Berlin earlier this year and my sole focus is getting in the right shape for London. ↗

— Paula Radcliffe

#country #earlier #focus #get #getting

You can wish as hard as you like but all that really matters is the shape you're in on the day of the race. I've always felt these really big races aren't necessarily won by whoever is the fastest. They're won by the athlete who is the smartest and in the best shape on the day. ↗

— Paula Radcliffe

#athlete #best #big #day #fastest

Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger. ↗

— Timothy Radcliffe

#god #gods #human #live #most

There's something so wonderful about writing in rhyme where it isn't just the meaning of the words, it's the music to the words and the shape and the sound. ↗

— Gary Ross

#just #meaning #meaning of #music #rhyme

I'm terrified of being too famous. What I'm really afraid of is that the audiences will go into the theater and not be able to forget that it's me, that fame will stand in the way of my acting. I want to keep being able to change into different shapes and different personalities. ↗

— Noomi Rapace

#acting #afraid #audiences #being #change

Acting is like going to the gym. You have to keep yourself in shape and concentrate on your core. ↗

— Anthony Rapp

#concentrate #core #going #gym #keep

So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think that symmetry is a neutral shape as opposed to a form of design. ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

#been #concerned #design #form #i

We started training a month before the movie started and then by five months in, we were at our peak shape. ↗

— Ryan Reynolds

#five #month #months #movie #our

Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds. ↗

— Anne Rice

#answers #ask #beings #contrary #few

In life, there is always that special person who shapes who you are, who helps to determine the person you become. ↗

— Molly Ringwald

#become #determine #helps #life #person