Martina Navratilova Quotes
I've a great family, two children to take care of. Then, of course, I do commentary for TV. I do speak about various women's issues around the world - like LGBT, motivational speeches. I have a lot on my plate right now. But eventually, yes, I would like to pass on the knowledge and something that I would like to do.
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Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me.
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I think I've got some more big plays left in me.
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When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.
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On my first day at Yale Law School, there were posters in the hallways announcing an event with Tony Blair, the former British prime minister. I couldn't believe it: Tony Blair was speaking to a room of a few dozen students? If he came to Ohio State, he would have filled an auditorium of a thousand people.
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I'm not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I'm the girl who rarely has a boyfriend.
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I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.
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I have an irregular heartbeat, so that means a fair amount of medication - and I have blood pressure pills, too, but no vitamins or supplements.
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Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.
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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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I had a lot of fun with my costume designer.
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I have lived a long life, and I am proud that I spend the whole of my life in the service of my people. I am only proud of this and nothing else. I shall continue to serve until my last breath, and when I die, I can say, that every drop of my blood will invigorate India and strengthen it.
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I had novels to write, so I wrote them.
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Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.
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If there are three words that need to be used more in American journalism, commentary, politics, personal life... it's the magic words 'I don't know.'
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I think if you are creative then it's an unstoppable thing. It just keeps coming throughout your entire life.
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Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
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Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.
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Getting to play the blues has been transcendant for me. I can't say if my finest hour is yet to come, you want to make a dent in this world, well I do anyway.
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I love really good food and I don't ever want to spend too much for it, but I like hanging out and having really good, tasty, interesting food.
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I'm one of those people where, if I get a piece of advice from someone I look up to and respect, I'll really listen to it.
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I've a great family, two children to take care of. Then, of course, I do commentary for TV. I do speak about various women's issues around the world - like LGBT, motivational speeches. I have a lot on my plate right now. But eventually, yes, I would like to pass on the knowledge and something that I would like to do.
