Serena Williams Quotes

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• Watching 'Girls' has just given me renewed courage.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Me
  • Courage
  • Girls

• Al Jolson was one of the greatest entertainers who ever lived.

  

  Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III

• The portrait of a person is one of the most difficult things to do. It means you must almost bring the presence of that person photographed to other people in such a way that they don't have to know that person personally, but that they are still confronted with a human being that they won't forget. That's a portrait.

  

  Paul Strand
  • People
  • Mean
  • Forget

• The trouble is, being an actor, you're always being sent scripts, so you've always got something to read. You've always got about three scripts to read, that you have to read, all the time. So finding a book or getting into a book series is hard, especially for me.

  

  Thomas Brodie-Sangster
  • Time
  • Book
  • Trouble

• Piteous human insecurities make the world go round.

  

  Phase
  • World
  • Piteous
  • Human Insecurities

• I'm somebody who can absorb a lot.

  

  Sandra Bernhard
  • Absorb

• The idea here, of course, is, you know, mathematics is the language of science, it's the way that we understand the natural world. And there's definitely been a push to sort of study advanced math and kind of reawaken the love of advanced math.

  

  Anya Kamenetz
  • Science
  • Natural
  • Mathematics

• Silicon Valley has a lot of noise, a lot of hype. People are very excited about all of the Facebook stuff, Facebook applications. It's just been a huge hype over the last year when actually... there isn't really that much value.

  

  Jawed Karim
  • Value
  • Applications
  • Silicon Valley

• Wine is a precarious aphrodisiac, and its fumes have blighted many a mating.

  

  Norman Douglas
  • Wine
  • Aphrodisiac
  • Mating

• I'm from a very close-knit family, and there was something very... I guess you could say normal, about it, and I so appreciate that. We all ate dinner together every single night, and my mom stayed at home with us. I owe a lot to my parents.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Family
  • Home
  • Together

• It must be terribly lonely to be a king instead of a man.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Man
  • King
  • Lonely

• The truer the facts the better the fiction.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Facts
  • Fiction

• Everyone's me, Iain Cook and Martin Doherty equally involved in all the writing. Normally we'll start with a sample or a drumbeat, or a synth sound or something like that, and that will spark the initial idea. And then we'll write an instrumental sketch of a song, and then we put on a nonsense vocal melody, which is always my favourite bit because it obviously sounds amazing.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Melody

• Mothers send strips to daughters to make a point. Daughters smack strips down on the breakfast table to make a point. My own mom sometimes cuts a strip out and sends it to me to make sure I understand her.

  

  Cathy Guisewite
  • Point
  • Mother`s
  • Daughters

• God keeps me grounded as well as my husband, Keith Douglas, who is such an inspiration to me. He's an author, speaker, and businessman. He's just a great husband and blessing.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Husband
  • Inspiration
  • Author

• When I am happy I am like a cat, sleek and purring, quite useless. It is when I am unhappy, with an ache perhaps in my heart, that I do my finest work.

  

  Barbara La Marr
  • Work
  • Heart
  • Happy

• I'm playing to around 30% of my potential - you'd be shocked at what I could do.

  

  Serena Williams
  • Shocked