John McEnroe Quotes
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I guess I found it useful to realise that everything is true at once, you know? You can pull back and say, 'Everything will be fine,' but you can also be in a situation and say, 'Not everything is going to be fine.'
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The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.
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Hypnotism is trespass into the territory of another's consciousness. Its temporary phenomena have nothing in common with the miracles performed by men of divine realization.
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When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!
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I have never sought the reason why I write.
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I just don't see where I could possibly fit in directing a feature.
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We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.
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There is a whole industry in America of people who want to write, and those who teach it. Even if the students don't end up writing, what's good about them taking the courses is, they become great readers, learning to appreciate the writing.
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There is no bigger aphrodisiac than power.
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Enterprise is hard work. You have to integrate the client with the optimized systems of all the servers and software.
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My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension inside her about who she wanted to be and what she wanted to do and how she couldn't achieve the things she wanted to.
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My books start almost before I realise it. Once in a while, some accident causes an idea to rise to the surface and say: 'now.'
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My artistic spirit is not nurtured by blogospheres.
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For me personally, I'm an activist, so I see a lot of turmoil and heartache in the world and tragedy.
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I like to run a lot. I play tennis, and I like doing outdoorsy stuff - fishing, canoeing.
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People have paid for content. They always have.
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In my view, relationship movies never get old because humanity will never not be confounded by their relationships.
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I reread? I lied! I don't dare to reread. I cannot reread. What's the point, for me, in rereading?
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Anything was better than playing cards, and I was doing something I wanted to do - creating.
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Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counseling rather than a collaborating task. The tendency of the writer-editor to collaborate is natural, but he should say to himself, 'How can I help this writer to say it better in his own style?' and avoid 'How can I show him how I would write it, if it were my piece?'
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The ability to take another perspective has become one of the keys to both sales and non-sales selling. And the social science research on perspective-taking yields some important lessons for all of us.
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The real trick to producing great work isn't to find ways to eliminate the edgy, nervous feeling that you might be swimming out of your depth. Instead, it's to remember that everyone else is feeling it, too. We're all in deep water. Which is fine: it's by far the most exciting place to be.
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It seems like the richer you are, the more chance you have of paying less tax.
