Mia Hamm Quotes
Every single day I wake up and commit myself to becoming a better player. Some days it happens, and some days it doesn't. Sure, there are games I'm going to dominate and there are going to be games when I struggle. But it doesn't mean I give up.
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I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.
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We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.
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As a teenager, rather than setting myself on a course to pursue fame (quite common growing up in L.A., the entertainment capital of the world), happiness, fulfillment, and spiritual enlightenment (also quite common), I skipped right on to trying to be successful. 'Let's just get on with it,' I felt. 'Onward' became my motto.
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Long skirts are annoying; they get in the way.
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I just wanna hear my own voice.
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I think the accessories look very modern and very exciting. These big earrings, these big hoops. I think the girls are sort of falling in love with... collars, neck collars.
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This movie is about the fact that personal repression gives rise to larger political oppression.… That when we're afraid of certain things in ourselves or we're afraid of change, we project those fears on to other things, and a lot of very ugly social situations can develop.
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When conflicted between two choices, take neither.
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'We are tempted so that we may pray the more. Afflictions are meant for our spiritual benefit.'
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Never in endless time will ring a sound as sweetly As when a human heart in God is tuned completely.
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I don't know if anybody will ever be as good as Hendrix again.
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I guess the point of that song 'Troublemaker, Doppelganger' is trying to navigate the worth of beauty and if it's hurtful or helpful to value beauty. If it's a curse or a blessing. Is that something really negative and morbid, like the hearse, or is it the limousine - a glamorous symbol of enjoying life?
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I've been told that I wasn't Latino enough, which was code for 'street' enough.
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We may have been born on third base, but we worked like we were starting from home plate. You know: batter up.
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The Right has been trying to take down Bill Clinton for 20 years. I know; I was there.
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A penny saved is not a penny earned if at the end of the day you still owe a quarter.
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I seem to get motivated a few months at a time, and then something stressful breaks the routine, and I just fold.
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The E.U. initially decided to end the isolation of Turkish Cyprus, to balance the accession of Cyprus. But the E.U. has not carried through on its promise.
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I've never been a great enthusiast about how I look and I am very... when I was young I had a real anti-talent for inventing myself as unappealing - craven and unremarkable.
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That's what people expect: They don't want to read a slight novel. People don't want to waste their time on anything less than 'great.'
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It's like that scene from The Player when they talk about merging Star Wars and Kramer vs. Kramer, or whatever. You could do that with music and it would just be awful.
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The environment is rarely put on tape, or if it is, it's so abstract that most people never realize it. They just don't know what it means. But if you can show it to them, then that's what becomes the main instrument.
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Every single day I wake up and commit myself to becoming a better player. Some days it happens, and some days it doesn't. Sure, there are games I'm going to dominate and there are going to be games when I struggle. But it doesn't mean I give up.
