Allan Border Quotes
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Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves.
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In America, music is more tightly categorized.
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If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.
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I'm competing with myself first, as my aim is to improve my performance in every film.
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I'm not as tech savvy as some YouTubers, but I'm a lot better than my grandparents. Whenever I have a technical question, or something isn't working, I ask Google, and that usually throws up the answer.
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In my next life, I want to be a housecat. Naps all the time!
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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I was made fun of a lot in middle school. When I was in seventh grade, the popular kids paid the most popular guy to ask me out.
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Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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In Washington, the translation of E Pluribus Unum has been lost. The belief that we are one nation - united in purpose - caring about and for one another is no longer the practice.
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She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.
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The original and brilliant idea of an MBA was the opportunity for students to study the theory and application of business and management principles.
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I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.
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What matters is discovering myself under the veneer, under the layers that are wrapped around me. There are two 'yous'; there's 'you', the real you, and then there's the image.
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I'm shocked at being recognized.
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I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
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I don't go by trends. I wear what I am comfortable in and what suits me. It is never about what is 'in' and what is 'out'. My personal sense of style spells 'comfort'.
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For me, acting comes straight from the heart. In that sense I don't act at all. I think that to feel the character's pain I have to be myself. Somewhere audiences see that.
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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When I'm in a tricky situation I often think: 'What would Beyonce do?' It helps.
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Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.
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You know, essentially when you do a play you're reinterpreting a work of art that already exists. That's not what happens with a movie.
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OK, go away, and I'll find someone who really wants to play for Australia.
