Chris Evert Quotes
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.
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Accept loss forever.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
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I didn't want to give up my Illinois driver's license and was unaware that was a crime. It is, by the way, in the state of California. Lesson learned. I technically broke a law, so technically I deserve whatever I get.
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I get up late, have an espresso, and immediately start work. I try to get roughly caught up on email before I leave the house, then if I need to write anything or review a complex deal, I do that, and then I head to the office and work on my top few priorities for the day. I try to schedule my meetings in the afternoon.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
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But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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My brother is really, really slow.
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I am aware that I look good for my age. It's my genes. My dad looked incredibly young, so did my mother. And a younger husband helps. Scott is only 45. If he hadn't come along, I don't know what I'd have done.
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I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.
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Advertising is the life of trade.
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Where there is no work, there is no dignity.
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I mean, of course "King Kong" is a metaphor for the slave trade. I'm not saying the makers of "King Kong" meant it to be that way, but that's what, that's the movie that they made - whether they meant to make it or not.
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The London theater community has been very gracious to me.
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France has usually been governed by prostitutes.
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A lot of the stories I write about have an element of mystery. They're crime stories or conspiracy stories or quests. They do have built into them revelations and twists. But the revelations, to me, come from seeing history as it's unfolding, or life as it's unfolding.
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I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people.
