Martina Navratilova Quotes
The Czech tennis federation wasn't holding me back, but they could still pull the plug anytime they wanted.
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But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.
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I try to stay as naive as possible so I'm not as aware as much of the risks.
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What happened? The Country got sick of it and said, Enough is enough. And all over the Country we saw springing up community organizations determined to do something about this terrible menace of drugs.
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I've learned never say never.
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In 1787, many Americans were convinced that the 'perpetual union' they had created in winning independence was collapsing. Six years earlier, in the Articles of Confederation, the thirteen state governments had surrendered extensive powers to a congress of delegates from each state legislature.
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I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.
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I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.
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I've learned, after 18 years of gathering information, to eat, then check in with my body - how do I feel? I've learned to eat whatever makes my body feel good. As a teenager, I was just so confused, overwhelmed by all the information.
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We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.
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Some growths can be detected early, making for increased accuracy in diagnosis. Some can be cured and others controlled.
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I've had the same friends since I was in kindergarten.
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This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with your fears, then you will fritter it away, but you won't get it back later.
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If your dream is to tell stories, interesting stories, play interesting people, that's the bottom line. The people that I play have to be extraordinary.
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Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.
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More women should actively participate in space flight. There are many well educated women working in the space industry; they are very good candidates.
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I don't think music affects what words I choose to type in what order, within what punctuation, at this point, because I'm rereading and editing each sentence, at this point, in my published books, probably 100-150 times each, on average, and listening to probably 20-60 different songs in that time.
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I know that people who have been to RADA and LAMDA can smash accents and do Shakespeare: all those things that I never really trained in.
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I have always, or for the most part, identified myself as a biracial person.
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Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites.
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I don't believe in the meteoric culture of anxiety, generally. Obviously, some people have it, some people are crippled by it, but most of the novelists I've ever known are in love with influence. They thrive on it.
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Our sense of worth, of well-being, even our sanity depends upon our remembering. But, alas, our sense of worth, our well-being, our sanity also depend upon our forgetting.
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When I play, I feel like I'm in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis-player?
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Let no one say that I have said nothing new... the arrangement of the subject is new. When we play tennis, we both play with the same ball, but one of us places it better.
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The Czech tennis federation wasn't holding me back, but they could still pull the plug anytime they wanted.
