You can’t afford for there to be gaps in your pool of knowledge when it comes to a character; otherwise, what ends up onscreen is generalized and unspecific. – David Oyelowo
I took my daily swim at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool despite the presence of onlookers. – Esther Williams
Based on my pool of coached clients, 90% of the challenges for business owners exist in a lack of personal development. – Darren L Johnson
I don’t want to sit around by the pool luxuriating with a margarita. That’s just not what I want to do. – Nicolas Cage
In the end, arguing about affirmative action in selective colleges is like arguing about the size of a spigot while ignoring the pool and the pipeline that feed it. Slots at Duke and Princeton and Cal are finite. – Eric Liu
Someone once referred to modeling as being like winning the lottery gene pool. It’s such an odd way to put things, but what is different about modelling is that the industry often picks you. – Erin O’Connor
You see a lot of us lingering around. We’ll just stand there on the edge of the pool and kinda psych ourselves up into getting in. – Natalie Coughlin
The pool is terrible, but that doesn’t have much to do with my record swims. That’s all mental attitude. – Mark Spitz
Often there’s a BA crew, because half the time we stay at the same hotels, especially in Australia. I can remember spending quite a lot of time with crews around the pool there. They always make themselves known to us. – Phil Collins
I get out of the pool after a workout and look on my BlackBerry to see if the nanny called and to make sure everything’s okay. My child is always on my mind. – Dana Torres
I do pool exercises, like weightlifting but underwater. I walk, I swim… I’m pretty fit for an old bloke. – Eric Idle
I took a job at the pool in order to earn the five cents a day it cost to swim. I counted wet towels. As a bonus, I was allowed to swim during lunchtime. – Esther Williams
When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You’ve got to be there. You’ve got to be at the bottom of the swimming pool taking notes. – Gary Shteyngart
The other guy I dug a lot was Burroughs because he was a smart man already; he learned it through the druggie pool – the street scene of an old aristocratic kind of man. – Gregory Corso
The basketball coach cut me within two days, so I was back in the pool. I was the first one in the wall after the first 25 yards, but the last one out because I didn’t have a flip turn. – Merlin Olsen
The first album, for better or for worse, was done over from the ages of 17-22, with a couple of different producers. Some of it was recorded in an old swimming pool, some of it was recorded in a synagogue – it kind of was all over the place. – Florence Welch
It’s not about being rich, but everyone back home has a pool. And I was a total water baby. My mom couldn’t get me out – she’d put my dinner plate at the end of the pool, and I’d eat my meals in the water. – Margot Robbie
Employers should overcome a myopic quarterly earnings posture and focus on long-term strategies for growth that include investing in their own skills-training efforts to enable a broader pool of applicants. – Elaine Chao
Infrastructure spending does not create immediate jobs, and more than half of those jobs will pull from the pool of the already employed. – Mark McKinnon
It’s also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that’s your pool of resources. – Paul McCartney
I consider myself normal. I’ve spent 20 years in the pool. I consider that something that’s normal. – Michael Phelps
Self-builders are the adrenalin junkies of the DIY world; it’s the equivalent of base-jumping off the top of the Gherkin to land in a paddling pool. – Kevin McCloud
The difference between great actors and the rest of us isn’t simply that they know how to make more out of less, but that, like lions at the watering hole, they will always take more than their share from the pool of available resources – extra air from the room, added knowledge from our faces. – John Burnham Schwartz
Parenthood can be very rewarding, but let’s face it, so are margaritas at the adults-only pool. – Jen Kirkman
I’m from a generation of fantastic actresses. It’s a big pool of really wonderful actresses, and so many of them we never even get to see on the screen anymore. – Karen Allen