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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I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my experience. I think that was because I hadn't yet found the right poems to invite me in.
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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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Being second generation in Hollywood is complicated: Success is expected, and yet the track record of the second generation is not great. Only a small group of us, like Jane Fonda, have succeeded.
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This is what America is about when it comes to understanding that it is equal opportunity versus equal achievement. Each and every one of us has the opportunity for greatness in this country.
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Of course, my own political beliefs inform the ideas I come up with.
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It goes back to a style of moviemaking I remember seeing as a child, in movies like The Man With The Golden Arm, which I think was shot all on a sound stage.
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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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I'm really exciting. I smile a lot, I win a lot, and I'm really sexy.
