#slightly

It's extremely hard for athletes to accept what's happened to them sometimes. It's hard to be beaten by a small margin, and I've spoken with athletes who, for years afterward, have been tormented by the knowledge that, had they done something ever so slightly different, they could have been one-ten-thousandth of a second quicker. ↗

— Chris Cleave

#athletes #beaten #been #could #different

The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting. ↗

— John Cleese

#another #back #better #else #good

When I first filmed things, they were always slightly awkward. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#awkward #filmed #first #i #slightly

With fantasy and sci-fi, it's based in a real fandom. You're presenting to experts, and their source material is really important to them. They'll come up and ask: 'so when you turned your head slightly in that scene, what were you thinking?' ↗

— Lena Headey

#based #come #experts #fantasy #head

I think Michael Crawford realised, I think we all realised, once we'd gone the route of casting a very young girl, you can't really cast a 65 year old man opposite. Slightly different resonance I think. No, we weren't going to go there. We'd have Jack Nicholson in the lead. ↗

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

#casting #crawford #different #girl #go

I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs. ↗

— Rachel Weisz

#goal #i #jobs #just #keep

Matisse was very clear about saying that you have to blow your own trumpet and explain yourself, which I think has been slightly forgotten. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

#been #blow #clear #explain #forgotten

Even if I tried to be my dad, it would be a mediocre, slightly embarrassing version. ↗

— Jason Ritter

#embarrassing #even #i #i tried #mediocre

There is something about the Australian psyche that seems to like films that are slightly offbeat. ↗

— Nick Park

#australian #films #like #offbeat #psyche

Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart. ↗

— Andres Segovia

#body #chest #forward #guitar #heart