Chris Evert Quotes
I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people. Tennis helped give me an identity and made me feel like somebody.
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Luck marches with those who give their very best.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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I smoke, isn't that terrible?
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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My first audition happened to be for 'Kindergarten Cop,' and I took that role. I was only starting to learn English at that point. Spanish is my first language, so they made me a speaking character in the movie. I didn't really know I was shooting a movie. I was just having a lot of fun with 30 kids my own age.
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It is the original idea that is unique, not the object itself.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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Game-playing is more fun when it's virtual because you're more successful. ... in reality, only one person gets to be LeBron.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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I am not a hound; I am an attention-seeker. Very different animal. My kind of attention requires greater finesse.
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I love puppies, and I love animals in general. Besides that, I do martial arts: extreme martial arts. I also play real guitar and drums, and sing. And I'm taking some college classes, hoping to major in English and creative writing.
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Pregnancy is something that I always love. It's about hope and the future and a new baby.
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I didn't record any additional dialogue for this CD, they are excerpts pulled from existing episodes.
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I've lived in Kansas for more than thirty years, and for half of those, I was part of a ranching family, so I'm writing about things I know and love.
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In L.A., unless you've just won an Oscar or you're Mr. Studio Head, no one talks to you. Even at parties.
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When I was around 15, I did my first movie. I was at a kids' agency, and the third time I was invited to an audition, they offered me a little part in some kiddie thing, and I earned my first money. I was very proud that I could buy my first mountain bike with my own money.
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As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased.
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I don't drink coffee.
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I'm mad for satin.
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When you're young, try to be realistic; as you get older, become idealistic. You'll live longer.
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How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.
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It's not just Ethiopia, but Africa in general - most of the media concentrates on what's not going well. But there is so much beauty there. When you go, it changes everything. It changes you, your life, and the way you see things. The challenge is changing the image of Africa that's been anchored in people for years now.
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I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people. Tennis helped give me an identity and made me feel like somebody.
