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Jewelry takes people's minds off your wrinkles.
I want to do with skates what Fred Astaire is doing with dancing.
All my life I have wanted to skate, and all my life I have skated.
The world never puts a price on you higher than the one you put on yourself.
You can't go to college and develop into an Olympics champion. It takes too much time, too much training.
I was born in a blizzard, a special out-of-season blizzard, the worst blizzard Oslo ever suffered. Family, home, circumstances, the country I lived in and the weather I was born in all conspired to make a skater of me.
it's a feeling of ice miles running under your blades, the wind splitting open to let you through, the earth whirling around you at the touch of your toe, and speed lifting you off the ice far from all things that can hold you down.
If you are not a skater, you probably can't imagine what I mean. I could try to tell you by saying it's a feeling of ice miles running under your blades, the wind splitting open to let you through, the earth whirling around you.It's a sense of power, of command over distance and gravity, and an illusion of no longer having to move because movement is carrying you.