John McEnroe Quotes
What is the single most important quality in a tennis champion? I would have to say desire, staying in there and winning matches when you are not playing that well.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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The main objective of our cinema is to entertain. If you can pass on a message at the same time, that is fantastic, but if the audience does not feel they are going to be entertained by the film, they are not going to watch it. There are many examples of very responsible and great films that are being made, but nobody goes to watch them.
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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
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Be present. Be meditative. Form real friendships. Stay away from business networking events or friendships where there is always an underlying business angle.
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Television can be a little tricky in terms of finding roles that feel fully flushed out, which is why I love being in the theater so much, because the roles tend to be really on the page.
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If you're making music for all the right reasons, people are going to be receptive to that and appreciate it the same way you did when your were writing it.
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Food doesn't necessarily have to suck in order to be healthy. It doesn't have to be terrible to be healthy anymore.
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In orthodox film-making, you never shoot sequentially - but with improv, obviously every move you make has a knock-on effect; it is a cumulative process. I have improvised, on the non-scripted 'Timecode.' It can become entirely indulgent: actors smashing crockery and competing verbally.
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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There's an excitement to officiating a well-played game. A lot of discretion, a lot of judgment comes into play.
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I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'
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From a spectator point of view, Test cricket is not important; people hardly watch Test cricket. But as a player, Tests are the real thing. You have to concentrate for five days. It's a lot of time, and not easy to do it day in and day out. If people have played 70-100 Tests, it's a lot of cricket, a lot of concentration and dedication.
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I've approached every character I've ever played with a poem, first and foremost.
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I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.
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Going to a concert is so overwhelming and the energy is amazing.
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In a unified and diverse Spain, based on the equality of and solidarity between its people, there is room for all of us. And for all of our feelings and sensitivities and our distinct ways of being Spaniards.
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I always felt like Tahliah's a very grown-up name to have. It's a pretty name when you're young, and then I think when I became a young lady, it felt kind of like a lot to grow into for some reason. I don't know. It sounds kind of regal. I never really liked it. I always felt like I couldn't live up to it.
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I don't really watch all that much television, I have to say, because I'm so intimidated by how many channels there are. I really cannot find my way back to anything. But I'm compulsively addicted to '24.' I love that show.
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I've not cooked Christmas dinner since 1982.
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For me, the most important thing is the writing - and certainly the director. But if the writing isn't there, it doesn't matter who the director is!
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If I'm playing bad, then I know we're not winning a lot of games, and we're definitely not No. 1 in pass defense.
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In the past, the West had tried to export one formula of democracy which should fit to the rest of the world, and they discovered that this doesn't work.
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What is the single most important quality in a tennis champion? I would have to say desire, staying in there and winning matches when you are not playing that well.
