If I had an extra 20 or 50 years physically, I could have been the dancer of my dreams. But I never became that dancer.
I’m talking to you and it’s basically a direct communication, whereas if I’m writing a letter to you and you read the letter, there are like 12 extra deconstruction and reconstruction steps in the communication.
On Christmas Eve, we have a duck or roast pork with caramelised potatoes, braised red cabbage and gravy. For dessert, we have ris a l’amande, a rice pudding, and whoever gets the whole almond in it wins an extra present. Then we dance around the tree and sing carols.
Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.
I’m doing everything in my power to be a great mother. I wish I could be with her throughout the day, because I’m always working, but I make sure that whether it’s the morning or nighttime, I make it extra special.
I’m a pretty organised packer, laying out everything beforehand, as I don’t like to take extra stuff. I’ve got a good eye for judging how much I can stuff into one suitcase. I’ve often not brought the right items, but I’d never avoided a chance to shop, unlike most men.
I really love the work that I do, and I feel like you have to go that extra mile to do it because it is a responsibility. Telling stories is a responsibility.
I travel often, which can make maintaining a workout schedule a little difficult, but I try to make time for it whenever I can. Sometimes I wake up extra early so I can fit in a run or a bike ride, and other days I’ll just blast music and jump around or watch a 30-minute exercise video.
Each training camp I take a dog with me, when I’m running I take the dog with me. It gives me that extra inspiration and push.
People always expect Hulk Hogan to be standing up straight, or to have the bandanna on, or to not have my arms covered up. If I have an extra large shirt on people go ‘oh yeah you look small.’ It kind of ruins the mystique.
Antagonists are always creatives efforts. They get extra attention be it in their costumes to their screen time. I actually enjoy it.
Texas was such a welcoming place, and with its unbelievable history and tradition, it’s extra special to be a part of that.
I have this dream again and again: I find extra rooms in the place where I live. You could say it’s a very New York dream, but I think it’s about writing – the feeling that there is something behind a wall or a door.
I know, I know – men have that extra hero gene in their foolish makeup; it’s part of our charm. But I happen to know some women who have their inner sports hero, too.
For me it was a normality having a father who was a world champion. I grew up with that, so it was never extra pressure. And I’ve never felt the need to emerge from his shadow.
I started dancing when I was five, and I trained intensively as a competitive dancer up until the end of high school. I did all genres, and later on a did a lot of extra ballet on top of that. I actually got accepted to Julliard for dance during my senior year, but I ultimately turned it down to come to L.A. to act.
Throughout the day, I like to spritz my face with a rose water for extra moisture.
Whenever I need that extra confidence booster, whenever I want to feel that extra chic-edgy, I grab red lipstick.
I’m very objective driven, so for me it’s very important to know who I’m fighting, when I’m fighting, and roughly the direction I’m working in. It gives me that little extra push to do what I need to do to get the sessions, to work towards something.
I’m an extra dark black belt in ping pong.
I decided to play the saxophone because it was the most obvious instrument in my family. There were a lot of saxophone players in my family, and there were extra saxophones, so that was an easy one to pick up. It was fun – it was okay – it just wasn’t me. It didn’t feel like my instrument, so I never followed through.
We can do things the cheap way, the simple way, for the short-term and without regard for the future. Or, we can make the extra effort, do the hard work, absorb the criticism and make decisions that will cause a better future.
I probably write best in my office, which is an extra bedroom in my house.
There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.
Being a typical teenager isn’t easy. When you have autism, it can be extra difficult. We need more public awareness about these hurdles as well as compassion towards these young people.
When you’re singing, you’re using extra muscles, and it requires a lot of exercise and breathing. You can’t do that if you’re a sissy. If I have any fitness advice for people, I’d tell them to sing more. It’s good therapy, too.
I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles.
If I want to do realistic cinema and convince the audience in authentic roles, I have to walk the extra mile.
But I’m professional: if I need to do extra training I do extra training.
Channel your heartbreak into work, then use that extra money to treat yourself to a new handbag.
There is always that extra bit of thrill when you try something new, you get into it thinking you have nothing to lose, at the most you will fail.
Even the best parents have to spend so much time making ends meet that they cannot help their kids with homework or afford the extra tutoring that wealthier students enjoy. To address these unjust disparities, we need an early education revolution.
There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.
My life is extraordinary because it’s so normal, but it’s so ‘extra’ for some reason.
Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another.
I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.
When I was a kid, my father brought home the autobiography of Sid Luckman, the great Chicago Bears quarterback – probably an extra copy from the sports department where he worked. It was the first sports biography I ever read.
Like with Berle, he was always trying to steal the scene, get a little extra.
I like a man with some extra padding.
They don’t give you extra points if you make a 50-yarder that goes over the net.
Performing in front of an audience gives you an extra ten per cent energy and the chance to react to the instant feedback.
One of the things your unconscious mind does for you – and it’s a great gift – is it gives you extra courage to view the outer world and it does that by giving you an extra-special view of yourself.
Every job leaves its residue, a bit of extra knowledge, a new skill-set.
Two-thirds of us in the U.S. don’t have a passport. I’m here to say that travel is the best, most mind-expanding thing we can do with our hard-earned extra money.
Mentors provide professional networks, outlets for frustration, college and career counseling, general life advice, and most importantly, an extra voice telling a student they are smart enough and capable enough to cross the stage at graduation and land their first paycheck from a career pathway job.
Extra dimensional theories are sometimes considered science fiction with equations. I think that’s a wrong attitude. I think extra dimensions are with us, they are with us to stay, and they entered physics a long time ago. They are not going to go away.
Work ethic starts where everyone understands that you’re putting that extra foot forward in order to be the best.
If you or me go to the gas station to fill up our car and it costs us much more than we expected, it will zap our discretionary income. We won’t have the extra money to buy that washing machine or new winter coat-all big ticket items that are important to economic growth.
The Corona Extra brand was launched in Austin, Texas. From Austin, where it was exclusively for three or four months, it became more widely available in that state and in others, primarily in the southwest and western United States.
Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.
Choose wisely, then eat in moderation. When I know I’m going to Mom’s for dinner, I throw an extra 20 minutes on the cardio machine so I can be ready to eat.
People had said to me how giving birth is like a marathon, and because I did train throughout the pregnancy I think it gave me that extra energy that I needed.
I should not think that I have to win every match and what others will think; that will create extra pressure. I just have to give best on court.
It’s never crowded along the extra mile.
There’s something very soothing about the simplicity of doing what’s right in front of you: paying the rent, buying groceries, and when there’s a little extra for a treat like cinnamon rolls, whoopee! When you live paycheck to paycheck, you only have so much to lose.
If I’m feeling really, really crappy, it sounds so cliche, but if I wake up extra early in the morning and do some sort of physical activity, I usually feel a little bit better. Or I do other things that make me happy.
