John McEnroe Quotes
I don't take myself as seriously as I did when I was playing, and it works, and I think people see the self-deprecation in my commentary.
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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
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As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty.
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I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.
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Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.
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Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
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If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will be through ignorance and not through malice. This may be taken as certain, and also that, through God's goodness, I am, and shall always be, as I always have been, subject to her.
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I'm easily entertained.
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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
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Playing hard to get is not the way to win me over. I'm definitely more for the girl who can smile and laugh all the time and just have a good time!
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Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
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I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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If you really want to be competitive in today's market you have to be in movies that make money.
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If you're writing fantasy or science fiction, it's really hard to do if you don't know a lot, at least in a basic way, about how the real world works.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.
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We are extraordinarily lucky in the U.K. to have inherited a diverse range of cities that bear the imprints of many centuries of human habitation.
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It's always a tricky thing, trying to make aid sustainable.
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I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of labor-saving machinery it employs.
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I want to see more Asians on TV. I want to see more faces like mine on TV.
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No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
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I don't take myself as seriously as I did when I was playing, and it works, and I think people see the self-deprecation in my commentary.
