Poliana Okimoto Quotes

I want to run a marathon in the immediate future. In the future future, I want to do ironmans. I cycle long distances. The only thing I have to work on is the swimming. I'm a good swimmer, but I've never done long distances like that.

Shooting in real-life situations helps actors because they're competing against the noise and the wind. Out of that comes things that shift and change, in terms of tone, but not in terms of re-honing the whole sequence.

My beginnings in the Southwest are clear and palpable. My beginnings here made me pay attention to where the sun is, where the winds are, the power of the site... I take that baggage with me.

I live close to Hampstead Heath, so when I do have spare time, I like to raise my white blood cell count with a swim in the men's pond. It's an ambition of mine to swim in the ponds on every day of the year.

We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.

I cannot command winds and weather.

I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.

One thing you cannot control is nature.

I've gradually gained more confidence swimming for distance in the open sea, but I still return to the rock pools.

When I look back at my childhood on the Ayrshire coast, I recall a basic devotion to the idea that human nature and national character are as unknowable as the weather's rationale.

I ran my fastest marathon in the rain.

For all of nature's wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable.

I love performing outside because it's as if the heavens are open and the elements become part of the stage show as well - you know, the wind and the rain and the thunder. It's almost as if there's a sense of invocation in performance.

I don't do a lot when I'm in Gascony. I swim and play the odd game of golf, but mainly I sit around. We're set an hour-and-a-half from the Pyrenees and an hour-and-a-half from the Bay of Biscay, so we get plenty of storms. But we're surrounded by vines and sunflowers - it's lovely.

Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.

Among all of our uncertainties weather is the most basic. We can’t live without it and we can’t control it.

In Iceland, the weather is the biggest character you deal with every day. There's nothing more relevant in your life than what kind of weather it is.

Artificial pitches are just one more condition for us, like sun, wind or snow; we should be able to deal with such conditions.

It's always difficult when you're working with Mother Nature, because you need to adapt to that.

Mountains are not fair or unfair - they are dangerous.

Sailing is such a variable sport. There could be no wind, or there could be 25 knots. You never know what you're going to get.

With marathon swimming, I think you have to use your head more than you do in pool events, which are more automatic. You can just go out and replicate your training pace in competition. With the marathon, though, you have to contend with nature, physical contact, and time.

Spring never is spring unless it comes too soon.

I have to understand the nature of change. And I cannot just work with stone or the more permanent materials. I need to work with leaves and ice and snow and mud and clay and water and the rising tide and the wind and all these.

Nature is imperfectly perfect, filled with loose parts and possibilities, with mud and dust, nettles and sky, transcendent hands-on moments and skinned knees.