Mary Pierce Quotes
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I watch virtually no TV. All my screen time is computer time for me. When I'm not doing that I'm reading or talking to my friends who I got to know through computers.
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Research has shown that time pressure leads to tunnel vision and that people think more creatively when they are calm, unhurried and free from stress and distractions. We all know this from experience.
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I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
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Political stories in general are tough. They just don't appeal to as wide an audience.
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I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.
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I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.
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My sister and I had resolved never to become teachers because the job seemed to demand so much. My mother always seemed to be working. Our dining room table was cluttered with papers waiting to be read and graded.
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I started when I was really young. I was playing with my dad when I was 8 or 9, and I started playing shows then. I had a short stint in a DIY all-girl punk cover band.
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The number of people who will not go to a show they do not want to see is unlimited.
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One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.
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Look at Gwyneth Paltrow and my favourite, Kate Winslet. No one ever says, 'Oh, she's making a comeback.' To my mind, I just went on maternity leave and reported back to work.
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The people decide who's No. 1, the best in boxing.
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I guess I don't take my stardom too seriously. I think I am one of the guys.
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The drummer is stereotypically the dumb guy. Maybe that's why I always respect drummers who do more than drum.
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I would rather live as a Muslim in the West than in most of the Muslim countries, because I think the way Muslims are allowed to live in the West is closer to the Muslim way.
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I keep encouraging the pharmaceutical companies to put more money into R&D.
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It is not possible to make a person or society non-violent by compulsion.
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Muslim discourse is currently a tissue of myths, conspiracy theories, and exhortations to recapture the glories of the seventh century.
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And I figured out that the reason I couldn't get through the day as well as I can now is because I had too many things on my mind, on my plate, you know, for one person to have. So I started to eliminate some of the things that were too heavy to carry and unnecessary.
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My faith does not lead me to think the Lord will provide us with roast pig, bread already buttered, etc. He will provide us with the ability to raise the grain.
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I've got so many clothes; I can dress in any style.
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I'm not against business. I'm against big business in bed with big government.
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So many of the fantasy stories I encountered growing up were set in worlds that were largely modelled on medieval Europe in one way or another. Lots of white folks in feudal societies, castles and kings, that kind of thing.
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I like to go on the court and have a little bit of information about my opponent.
