Serena Williams Quotes
I've had to learn to fight all my life - got to learn to keep smiling. If you smile things will work out.
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Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.
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It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.
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Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.
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My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.
Nastassja Kinski
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I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.
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I like to act with people that know what they're doing.
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I cannot even remember a time before being conscious of James Bond.
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In reality, I don't see myself as a man hunter. In fact, when it comes to love, I am rarely the one to make the first move.
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I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.
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'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.
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Keeping in touch with the people that matter is important.
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No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.
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I never expected to make a lot of money from music.
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There's something about the modern era where it's very hard to transgress - we're all so online, easier to track by mobile phone - so you have people who do it on your behalf.
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I try to avoid describing one interpretation of my books. Of course I have an opinion. I have things I want to say, but I don't ever want to limit anybody, to have them say, 'Oh, he said this, so that's what it's about.' I'm happy people bring their own stuff to it.
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Art is something special because it can come up with a way of approaching the truth that is a little to the side.
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I do not believe in a universal religion any more than I believe in a universal language. My feeling is that people have to make their own religion as they have to make their arts and their parishes, and that they must find their own salvation; the salvation mongers are of not much avail.
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Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?
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I think of myself as no more than 60. What I could do at 60, I can still do now.
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There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
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When I was 16, I felt very relieved to discover cinema. It was like an island where I could see life and death from another perspective. Every young person should be interested in that island. It's a beautiful place.
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I've had to learn to fight all my life - got to learn to keep smiling. If you smile things will work out.
