Martina Hingis Quotes
I didn't have the same fitness or ability as the other girls, so I had to beat them with my mind.
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Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
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I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.
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I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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I always like to sing barefoot, but when I first started doing these dates with the symphonies, I of course thought I should clean up my act, being a Jewish girl from Long Island with a little bit of a trucker mouth. So I wore a gown and some high heels.
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There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That's a crucial age, although it's very hard to judge who is worth supporting and who is not. Looking back on my own life, I see that was the period when I was closest to giving up as a novelist and when I most needed some encouragement.
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I don't like comedians who don't have conviction, and with stand-up, it is always best to have an angle.
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A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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Not long after 'The Pacific,' I began shooting the comedy 'Larry Crowne,' which was also with Tom Hanks, who also directed and plays the title character.
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If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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My father always taught me to appreciate what you're fortunate to have and give back to those who need it. No part of our society is more important than the children, especially the ones who need our help.
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The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.
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Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
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Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
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A preoccupation with money and, especially, with what money meant was, in our family, an inherited thing. My father's father, Jack, who died before I was born, was very much possessed by the idea that money was freedom.
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We want to be sure that both NATO's territory and NATO soldiers are well protected. We need to make sure that there is the air defense and the air support for these forces in case that is necessary.
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I just close my eyes and act like I'm a 3-year-old. I try to get as close to a childlike level as possible because we were all artists back then. So you just close your eyes and think back to when you were as young as you can remember and had the least barriers to your creativity.
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Every night empty your mind of unhappy thoughts as you empty your pockets and come alive.
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The mind can store an estimated ioo trillion bits of information compared with which a computer's mere billions are virtually amnesiac.
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I didn't have the same fitness or ability as the other girls, so I had to beat them with my mind.
