Serena Williams Quotes
Since I don't look like every other girl, it takes a while to be okay with that. To be different. But different is good.
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I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.
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I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.
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Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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Photography, painting or poetry – those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.
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I know I stand visibly onstage, but my function is still unseen, because I rarely see the immediate results of what I am saying or doing or writing.
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It's important to have people around you with enough confidence to say if you are not acting in a good way. Normally, when you are at the top, people say everything is fantastic. Probably in that moment it is what you want to hear, but it's best to be reminded how to act properly.
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Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.
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The revolution will come from the people and the willingness to work towards something better, to fight for a better living.
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If somebody says 'singer-songwriter' to me, the first person I think of is James Taylor. There are plenty of modern singer-songwriters, but there is something about James Taylor that has always resonated with me.
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I see only defects because I'm not following the scene as it were. I'm not following the other person. It's like the best thing to clarify this is the theater.
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Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you.
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And of course there is so much of World War II that is documented that we never have seen.
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I understand people have preconceived notions of who I am or what I do. But I do find it a bit bizarre that people find it bizarre that I've grown up.
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The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
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Well look, I don't begrudge anybody in the voters and their views.
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Dishonesty, lack of integrity catches up with you.
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If you never lie to yourself, you'll always be happy with yourself, and eventually the person you wake up with and the person you go to sleep with is yourself.
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As a young girl, I was too intent on getting to London and drama school and out of east Yorkshire to think about winning Oscars. I did win a Bafta once, and was so unprepared for it I jabbered on for a minute - a minute too long.
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I'm very much a hypochondriac, worried about dying, and not having enough time to work with the people I want to work with and being fulfilled as an actor.
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When you see yourself on a 40-ft. screen. you go, 'Oh My God! I look so weird!'
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No matter what people say, about what I did, about what I am like... They say you are not dedicated or hardworking. A lot of people say things about me, but they don't realise I have played 250 games. It's not like you just land up in the team, sit down and play 250 games. You can't survive like that in international cricket.
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Since I don't look like every other girl, it takes a while to be okay with that. To be different. But different is good.
