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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To find the best moves great Masters, with years of experience, engage in laborious research, and the moves thus found are blindly repeated by amateurs without any attempt to fathom their real meaning and how and why they stand in their context.
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The creative act requires both will and intelligence. Breaking things is easy. You only need a hammer.
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I go into meetings with some film-makers and they literally have nothing to say, they're almost bored by their own material. I'd rather work with people who are very passionate and very animated about what they want to do. People who just want to tell stories.
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I feel people think I'm almost like a robot - like an android... I just don't really get portrayed as someone who has feelings or who is sympathetic... like a self-absorbed ice queen.
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A gun can be dangerous. But a gun can protect you, you can hunt for food with it - you know, the tool itself is a tool. The intention of the party using the tool is a part of the process, right? You know: the knife cuts the steak, stabs the person, saves somebody from danger, cuts somebody out of a car.
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I like to go on the court and have a little bit of information about my opponent.
