At 6 years old, the ice became a place for me to express myself. Because I was so shy off the ice, it became my safe haven, with music and freedom and self-expression. That was my emotional outlet.
Interpretation
The ice provided Kristi Yamaguchi with a safe space to express herself and overcome shyness.
In this quote, Kristi Yamaguchi reflects on how skating became a sanctuary for her at a young age. While she struggled with shyness in her everyday life, the ice allowed her to unleash her emotions and creativity through movement, music, and personal freedom, highlighting the therapeutic power of artistic expression.
In practice
This quote can be used during a motivational speech for young athletes.
Shakespeare might have met Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the white streets of London, or seen the serving-men of rival houses bite their thumbs at each other in the open square; but Hamlet came out of his soul, and Romeo out of his passion.
The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.
Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday.
The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.
So I have no grounds to complain; on the contrary, writers should consider the condition of permanent controversiality to be invigorating, part of the risk envolved in choosing the profesión. It is a fact of life that writers have always and with due consideration and great pleasure spit in the soup of the high and mighty. That is what makes the history of literature analogous to the development and refinement of censorship.
Writing for me is cutting out the fat and getting to the meaning.
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