Jennifer Capriati Quotes
I just want to get to the level where I can say that that's my level, just try to play well, get up there.
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Nothing improves your confidence and brings a team together more than winning a cup.
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When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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I learned so much in Zimbabwe, in particular about the need for humility in our ambition to extend mental health care in countries where there were very few psychiatrists and where the local culture harboured very different views about mental illness and healing. These experiences have profoundly influenced my thinking.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.
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If I could be more vague I'd write more about people in my life, but I hate hurting feelings or making people feel uncomfortable. I've done that before. Unless they're sad songs. Those get finished fast, but the mean ones often end up at the back of the bottom drawer and it's probably for the best.
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I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.
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I've never been someone who needs a lot of takes or enjoys a lot of takes. I like the fast thing of it.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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I speak my mind. That's what we loved Tupac for.
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A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated.
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I got through college.
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I'm hopeful that Israelis can go to Ramallah whenever they want and see how the people are living.
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You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever.
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I saw a Shakespeare play when I was - I guess I was in junior high. And I just fell in love with the theater because, for me, it was a combination of big ideas and feeling.
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My mother never wore much make-up, and she was a kind of natural beauty; she knew just how to enhance what she had.
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I think most Americans probably believe that our relationship with Japan began in 1941. In fact, obviously, it began in 1854 when Commodore Perry sailed into Yokohama harbor and threatened to burn it down unless they would open up to trade with us. The imperial impulse was first ours historically.
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I just want to get to the level where I can say that that's my level, just try to play well, get up there.
