I’m an avid runner and play soccer every weekend, but I also have to constantly watch what I eat, and I’m always thinking about how to balance my meals.
Let’s face it: I am not a professional runner.
I’m a keen runner, so I try to fit in a half hour every other day.
I’m a long distance runner, and I get my best ideas when I’m out running. It also helps that I can’t write it down immediately – if you hold onto an idea, other things will stick on it.
Many years ago, when I lived in the mini-Siberia they call East Anglia, I was awakened in the early hours by the sound of a pantechnicon being loaded. Peeping through the curtains, I observed the grocer doing a runner with all his chattels and his family.
Long runs improve your endurance but shorter intervals improve your speed. They are mutually beneficial for a distance runner. If you do 5k runs it will help your marathon.
Hard to say an absolute favorite, but some of my favorites are: ‘Ryan’s Daughter,’ ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,’ ‘The Piano,’ Lina Wertmuller’s ‘Swept Away,’ ‘Blade Runner.’
There’s probably a little more creative freedom in cable versus network, a little less of a committee looking over everyone’s shoulder, but it depends on the network; it depends on the show; it depends on who the head writer or show runner is and what track record they have.
I did drop out of uni, but I worked in PR for a while and then I worked as a runner on ‘Loose Women,’ ‘The Alan Titchmarsh Show’ and ‘Hairy Bikers,’ so I know how the industry works.
Jason Katims creates truly relatable three-dimensional people you fall in love with right away. Jason always puts a lot of heart into what he does. He has a way of touching your emotional core in a life-affirming way. And he’s a great show runner.
If you look at ‘Blade Runner,’ it’s been cut sixteen ways from Sunday, and there are all kinds of different versions of it.
I saw a segment of Douglas Trumbull’s special effects for ‘Blade Runner’ on the KNBC-TV news. I recognized it immediately. It was my own interior world. They caught it perfectly.
My biggest problem was to get the coaches to understand that I was a runner, and I wanted to prepare myself based upon the calisthenics I did and get myself ready. For example, I used my forearm when I ran the ball, so I didn’t want to do pushups because I wanted my forearms to heal.
Business is a sprint until you find an opportunity, then it’s the patience of a marathon runner.
The ‘Maze Runner’ family, we all just really genuinely love each other.
I can’t go to the gym and sit on those machines – I’m medically unable to run because I’m just that wonky all over. I’d love to be a runner but I’m no good.
I just feel like the way that I play, you know, I’m such a patient runner that a lot of people look at me as slow. But I’m not a slow guy.
I couldn’t disappoint people. I did not want to fail and exhaust myself, because I was the kind of runner who trained so little that I couldn’t race again within another 10 days.
For theater I am like a long-distance runner. For movies I am a sprinter! Same playing field, different approach.
In my 20s, life seemed endless. At 49, I’ve had a chance to see how dark life can be, and I am far more aware of the constraints of time than when I wrote ‘The Kite Runner.’ I realise there is only a limited number of things I can do.
It doesn’t matter where you are, you can just put your runners on and go. When I’m travelling, it’s a really good way to get to know a city – especially if you’ve never been there before.
You can dominate a game if you dominate on the line… We’re just going to have to go out there and work hard and blow people off the ball, and let our runners do what they do best.
I think over time I’ve learned to stop being a screamer and get interactive; otherwise, you get killed in Hollywood. I stopped being a screamer shortly after ‘Blade Runner,’ kicking doors and things like that, because I wasn’t actually getting anywhere.
The first ‘Blade Runner’ is a cool movie. It’s a classic. Just to be part of the sequel was such an honor and a beautiful learning experience.
‘Maze Runner’ is about a group of teens that live inside this giant maze. And outside the maze are these creatures that come out at night. The centerpiece of the maze where we stay is called the Glades, and we call ourselves the Gladers.
When I go to a web video meeting and look around, at least half the show runners are women. And a lot are actors-cum-writers who are frustrated with the situation of being a woman actor in Hollywood and have decided to create their own show.
My kids are good athletes and runners. They run in a bunch of sports.
Sure, the first light snowfall may be a chance to dance giddily, leaving squeaky footprints through the neighborhood, marking the runner’s right to the domain. But later drubbings of snow merely complicate running. Snow turns to ice, to slush, to ice again. Tire ruts twist ankles. New snow hides the hazards.
Marathon runners set explicit goals.
I was a huge fan of ‘Blade Runner.’ That was a pretty formative film for me growing up. It really got my sci-fi juices flowing, as it were.
A runner’s stride is not perfectly efficient.
I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese.
My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference’s races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.
I know a lot of marathon runners who are at their best when they are close to 40. You say to yourself, ‘It’s 42 kilometres and they are 37 or 38 years old,’ but the body can. What you have to make sure you don’t lose is your head. That is the most important thing.
I used to be pretty reckless. When I was a runner for a production company, I drove a massive 16 seater van. I was only 18. I mean I look young now, but then I looked about 12.
The field is fantastic, great runners, so the best you can do is stay in control, pace yourself well, and then utilise it when you can do better.
First of all, you want umpires to call what they see. In the case of fair or foul, the smartest thing is to call the ball fair. Because if it’s called foul and ruled fair, where do we put the runners?
I think people maybe had a perception of me that I was just a hard working player, just a runner. Don’t get me wrong, I think I am that but I’ve got a lot more to my game than that.
When I moved to Manchester, to work as a runner for Granada, I shared with a researcher called Vicky who took pity on my inability to cook and made me meals for three years. Put in charge of cookery on a live kids’ show I’d buy cookies from a shop to show as ‘ones we made earlier.’
I want to throw my best pitch and I want to throw it a certain way, regardless of where the runners are. But it does take the catcher being able to handle that.
As long as you try your best, that is all that matters. You don’t have to be the fastest runner or top of the class.
If someone tried to take the hierarchy thing too seriously – for example, being lovely to producers but moaning to runners about the tea – that would not be accepted on ‘Harry Potter’; someone would pull you aside and have a word.
I defend and track my runners but, if there’s another big asset you need as a midfielder, it’s to score goals. I scored goals in the reserves and the youth team but since I’ve got into the first team I’ve lost that a little bit.
The set for ‘Blade Runner’ was maybe the hardest set I’ve ever worked on because I think we worked 50 nights in a row, and it was always raining.
Ultimately, if you look at the game and there are two minutes left, and you have to ensure your victory, you don’t want to throw the damn football. You want a runner who can run the clock out.
My dad was a big runner. Growing up, I watched him do half marathons, and he was always running six or seven miles.
I feel like a lot of runners in the NFL: the more they get the ball, the more they get into a rhythm.
I change my training probably every two months. The only thing that stays consistent is that I’ve become a pretty psychotic runner.
I’ve gone from being an 11.9sec runner to being a 13.5sec runner which mentally is quite hard.
I am an avid runner, mainly on weekends.
There’s obviously a push to protect the quarterback, but you have to give the defensive players a chance. All of the quarterback has to do is pull the ball, and he’s a runner. How’s the defender going to know if the ball is pulled or not?
When I hit New York in 1972, I thought I was a sprinter. I thought that I would star in a Broadway show and do a movie and win an Oscar by the time I was 25. It turned out that I’m a long distance runner.
As an adult, I had to accept that I was not a natural distance runner. Anything more than about 400 metres had me gasping and wheezing like a broken accordion.
When I first found out what a show runner was, I thought it was the strangest job I had heard of in my life.
Even for runners who never make the transition to more sophisticated workouts, easing into speedwork will lead to more enjoyable running.
I’m not a runner, and I always dreamed about just throwing on my sneakers and really knocking everyone’s socks off with my joy of traversing the world by foot.
