Viswanathan Anand Quotes
I like to keep myself physically and mentally fit before any important match. I usually take a short nap just before the game and do not practice immediately before the tournament.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.
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People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.
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If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.
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There are parallels between the music and film worlds, but they're really very different. I feel like they're just two different ways to channel my creativity.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
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If you employ an army, have money, bombard cyberspace with misinformation, innocent people tend to buy it.
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I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first place.
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Bruckner's Eighth is a colossus.
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I didn't realize that winning the Olympics at age 14 automatically put me in the category of being a celebrity.
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Everyone is capable of everything.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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After September 11, when the United States took action to overthrow the Taliban, our interests and Iran's aligned, and we were able to coordinate quietly but effectively.
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I have deep emotions about the American people. If I were to cry for anything, I would cry for them and the policies that they're about to face.
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Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.
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The most important thing is to enjoy yourself and have a good time.
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I love 'First Wives Club' and 'Death Becomes Her' and movies about women like that.
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I don't think anyone's found a way of eliminating thoughts of danger and loss. It's rather that, when they're unrealistic, you become an acrobat at marshaling evidence against them.
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People ask me, 'Is there pressure to win a Tony for your next one?' I've got three on my mantelpiece; I'm good. If that's the end of the story, I'm fine.
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If I could work with any actor it would have to be Johnny Depp. He is cool.
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I just need to believe that we're not in some form of stasis, that we can try to be whoever we want to be. We probably won't get there, but we might get a little bit closer, you know?
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I think for kids it's the most important part of the game. You have to be able to skate forward and backward, stop and start, go from side to side. Those are the basics of the game.
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I like to keep myself physically and mentally fit before any important match. I usually take a short nap just before the game and do not practice immediately before the tournament.
