Magnus Carlsen Quotes
Once you're a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can't get it completely out of your head.
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I don't care how many championships you've won or how many records you've broken - if you've had a hand in pushing forward not only a game but women in sport's movement, then I think that's pretty darn good.
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This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
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Certainly by the time I was in seventh grade, I knew I had to have a long education if I wanted to become an astronomer, but I figured I'd try it, and if I didn't get far enough, I could always end up teaching in high school or math or physics.
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In fashion, we don't often know the prices. We don't have time to go into the stores.
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For an actor, a Mamet play is definitely on the list of things you hope to be a part of before it's time to exit.
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You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.
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I'm the oldest 26-year-old I know. A lot of experience has been crammed into a short amount of time. Some days I feel a good 65, 70. Like I want to lie down.
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I aim to direct as much as I act at some point in time.
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What I learned from boxing and what everyone can take in real life is to follow directions, follow order. Don't give nobody a hard time.
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I get to see life through rose-colored glasses a lot of the time.
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Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
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My first taste memory is pickle. Even as a kid, I was really weird. I liked chillis. I used to climb up the shelves in my grandmother's pantry. The pickle jar was kept right at the top. One time, I dropped the jar and it broke. I was totally busted.
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When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.
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You don't have to aim to be the best of everything, thinking that one day you're going to be the top of the world; I don't think it exists.
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I really hated school. I had the feeling I was losing a lot of time.
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When I graduated from Parsons School of Design, the dean at that time said I would never be a designer. Obviously I didn't listen.
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The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
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Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
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I find just in terms of free time I'm always envious of people I know who... listen to music, watch films, play games, read books. I have to pick. And I find frequently that if I've got Sophie's Choice, I'll try to keep up with music and keep up with films. So my book reading and comic reading and game playing is terrible and infrequent.
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A creative and artistic home is what I've been looking for in the theatre.
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Even things that are true can be proved.
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I think the best tip I've ever learned is contouring with a really light concealer under the eye around the nose. And then powdering over it immediately. It makes it stay and gives it a natural look.
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Women in most countries have not achieved much, because they can't be liberated under the patriarchal, capitalist, imperialist and military system that determines the way we live now, and which is governed by power, not justice, by false democracy, not real freedom.
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Once you're a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can't get it completely out of your head.
