Serena Williams Quotes
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I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.
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I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast - that's the best award of all.
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I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.
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I was sent the script for 'Silver Linings' when I was doing a play in D.C. at The Kennedy Center with Cate Blanchett and I was sent the script and asked if I was interested, and I said 'Oh, boy am I!'
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
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Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.
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When it comes to relationships, I think I'm pretty experienced - you'd be surprised.
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Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
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I almost always start with setting! I have to know the world before I know how to populate it. I have a tendency to play with doors - between life and death, human and monster, mundane and magic - and with 'ADSOM,' I knew I wanted to play with the physical doors between worlds.
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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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I believe it's important that we use names of endearment that reflect a special feeling for the individual involved.
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No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
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Economists often get the market wrong.
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One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.
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I then moved to the University of Western Ontario where I was made a full professor in 1985.
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It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical education – aesthetic consciousness and historical consciousness – presented alienated forms of our true historical being.
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Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.
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Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
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After writing fiction for so long, I like the discovery element of nonfiction, in the sense that when you find the right information, it feels like gold.
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I once had someone say to me in an interview, 'You are more ugly on the screen than in real life.'
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That little white ball won't move until you hit it, and there's nothing you can do after it has gone.
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I'm really exciting. I smile a lot, I win a lot, and I'm really sexy.
