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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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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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 -
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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I could be like Joe Kennedy and say, 'My kids are going to run for president!'
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I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
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I always remember this neighbor who would ask me to babysit for her. She looked like Jayne Mansfield, and I remember babysitting for, like, five hours and she would pay me 80 cents, with a phony smile. I used to go home fuming to my mum.
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Showbiz is a job. I never take it too seriously. I work hard, but I never pretend it’s life or death. I’m just incredibly lucky.
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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.
