Venus Williams Quotes
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A bowler is his own captain. I know what needs to be done, what the ball is doing. If you don't know where you are going to bowl and where you think the batsman will hit, then how can you tell the captain what you want? You are the judge.
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Nashville is the place where I first realized how impossible it is to look at someone and know what is inside them, what special something they possess.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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It is not the strong who are dangerous to the world and to themselves. It is the weak and the inadequate who threaten - and sometimes destroy - mankind's peace and prosperity.
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Well, mostly I just want to be an actor. I love being an actor, and I don't want to be a spokesman for anything, I don't want to do anything crazy or fancy like that.
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I didn't want to be one of those arty nutcases.
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When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
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I do and re-do things that I used to do in a flash, because I want to be more perfectionist about these things. Maybe it sounds pompous and pretentious, but that's the way I feel.
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I've always been like this - insecure - because I'm striving for something that can't be attained. I don't just want to be OK at this: I want to be the best at it, and I've never achieved that in my mind.
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I am an emotional and fragile person. I observe life, I am perceptive and can read a person's body language. I have a strong journalistic streak in me, and had I not been a filmmaker, I would have become a film journalist. I have combined my perceptive and journalistic traits to create my own brand of cinema.
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My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen.
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A strong economy depends on a strong middle class, but George Bush has put the middle class in a hole, and John McCain has a plan to keep digging that hole with George Bush's shovel.
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I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
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I'm very close with my higher power. I have a very strong connection with it.
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Don't look for approval in what everyone else is doing; look for approval from Almighty God.
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I naturally want to be provocative.
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If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets.
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I want to play in as many theatres as possible, work with as many brilliant people as possible, but definitely do a new play.
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Writers want publicity all the time, and they are always nagging their agents and publishers to give them more publicity, but, when you get it, it's kind of soul-destroying.
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I want you to understand the words. I want you taste the words. I want you to love the words. Because the words are important. But they're only words. You leave them on the paper and you take the thoughts and put them into your mind and then you as an actor recreate them, as if the thoughts had suddenly occurred to you.
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To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter.'
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I'm the best corner in the game. When you try me with a sorry receiver like Crabtree, that is the result you are going to get. Don't you ever talk about me.
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It's more than magnificent - it's mediocre.
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Of course I want to look well and fit - and as an athlete, I want to look strong.
