Fiona Wood Quotes

#1. Stress level: extreme. It's like she was a jar with the lid screwed on too tight, and inside the jar were pickles, angry pickles, and they were fermenting, and about to explode.

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#2. How many times do your feet have to press down on a path before they make an imprint, before pieces of soul start sticking?

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#3. Guys, please, one life-changing shock at a time, I felt like saying.

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#4. My mother's great line was, Grasp the nettle with two hands, girl, because if you don't somebody else will.

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#5. I don't think I fully appreciated how relaxing it is having someone I can be really mean to. It's going to be so hard being nice all the time.

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#6. My problems are like waves - just as one disappears with a snarl and a hiss there's another shaping up to knock me down.

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#7. I've seen you reading - sometimes you open a book, and you're just ... gone. Even with your friends - it's like you disappear.

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#8. There's this sky I know

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#9. You see it in schools all over ... the concept that 'I'll be somewhat less than my best in order to make those around me feel more comfortable' is alive and well ... I'm very keen that they understand that if they make themselves a little less than they can be, it is a one-way street to mediocrity.

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#10. I'm floating. The absence of pain is powerful.

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#11. Fred is staying with his mother these holidays. She's living in London for six months, in Chelsea, studying Georgian underwear at the National Art Library. It's a thesis, not a fetish.

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#12. Something large and happy has unfolded in my chest, erupting in a smile that won't quit. I can't remember ever feeling so light-hearted. Or is my heart full? Or bursting? Not aching, that's for sure.

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#13. You cow,' Estelle added. 'I heard that.' 'Give the woman the geriatric audiology medal,' Estelle said. 'I heard that, too', her mother said, from the other side of the door.

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#14. My heart is its own fierce country where no one else is welcome.

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#15. ... consider the meaning of these images. Every time you're working with them, ask yourself: what do they mean? And, even more important, what do they mean to me? The more specific and personal something is, the more its universality emerges.

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#16. Sport ... teaches life's lessons. But there's no substitute, in my book, for education, because that gives you choice.

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#17. You don't do anybody any favours by being less than you are.

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#18. Australia has got some of the best sports people in the world, but we've also got some of the best scientists and innovators too, and that needs to be celebrated more.

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#19. We look at each other with shy relief. It's the look two odd socks give when they recognise each other in the wild.

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#20. It makes me feel tired about how guarded we are the whole time. Without even trying we're ready to make a joke of everything, serving up the day with big dollops of irony and derision and cynicism. As if. Sucked in. Kidding.

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#21. Mothers are generally starvers or feeders

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