Bill Tilden Quotes
Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater. When I step on the court I feel like Anna Pavlova. Or like Adelina Patti. Or even like Sarah Bernhardt. I see the footlights in front of me. I hear the whisperings of the audience. I feel an icy shudder. Win or die! Now or never! It's the crisis of my life.
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
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Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.
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I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.
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Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
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I just cannot imagine why anyone would want to be really famous. You go to a restaurant and people are pointing at you and they talk about you and they whisper and it is very disconcerting; it is a very odd feeling.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.
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Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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I've made these films, and I'm really proud, but my lifestyle hasn't changed.
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You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.
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I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
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Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.
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I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.
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My style is scruffy with a touch of androgyny.
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He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.
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I am continually pleasantly surprised by how many people are showing up at shows and are younger than our first record.
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I'd studied 16th century science and magic. I thought it was strange that people were interested in the same kinds of things my research was about. The more I thought about it, the more intriguing it became and pretty soon I was writing a novel about a reluctant witch and a 1500-year-old vampire.
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When composing music, I just start spilling things out and then wait until they take form, you know what I mean, until I see like a common thread or something.
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It's probably healthier to find fame later in life.
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If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.
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Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater. When I step on the court I feel like Anna Pavlova. Or like Adelina Patti. Or even like Sarah Bernhardt. I see the footlights in front of me. I hear the whisperings of the audience. I feel an icy shudder. Win or die! Now or never! It's the crisis of my life.
