Billie Jean King Quotes
Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.Billie Jean King
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We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'
Valentina Zelyaeva -
I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.
Tea Obreht -
I'm a big 'Firefly' fan. I'm a Nathan Fillion fan because of 'Firefly.'
Taran Killam -
The reality of music itself, which is the fabric of life for me, is where most of my attention is.
Pat Metheny -
We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
Hanya Yanagihara -
When there's no push back against Islamophobic rhetoric, people see that as tacit endorsement of anti-Islamic rhetoric.
Ibrahim Hooper
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
Valerie Plame -
I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'
Tammy Duckworth -
Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
Ilya Ehrenburg -
Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.
Barbara Mertz -
If you do what you were born to do, I think you will never grow old.
Federico Fellini
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Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.
Jackson Pollock -
I love Indian food, and my favourite dish is dal rice.
Madhur Bhandarkar -
I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script.
Beatrice Dalle -
I had no real idea I was going to become a writer. It was just a game for me. I just liked pretending, daydreaming and imagining.
Rabindranath Maharaj -
I just mean it's very difficult for me to watch my work, in some ways, because I am critical of what I didn't get across or I thought I was making one point.
Tea Leoni -
When you guys are sleeping at night, I am out there working.
Yohan Blake
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After working with clothes for so long, it seemed right to design them.
L'Wren Scott -
I believe you have to keep the theological standard high; the Lord said, 'Be perfect,' and the leaders have to be striving for that standard with all there is in them.
Adrian Rogers -
Just because you didn't start out perfect doesn't mean you can't have an excellent result in the end.
Debi Thomas -
I think every relationship has a point where you stop and reevaluate. Are you happy? Have you grown together or apart? What do you share interests in? I think that's a normal thing to do, but it's so much harder when it's done publicly.
Courteney Cox -
I went to, while I was in the military, Western New England College for my MBA and New England School of Law for my law degree.
Darryl Glenn -
Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
Billie Jean King