Venus Williams Quotes

You have to stay on top and learn from mistakes.

Venus Williams

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The pop-star thing bores me because it's somebody programming someone else. Stand over here, sing that, no, sing it like this, talk like that, when they ask you this, don't say that, say this, hold that, drive this, stay here, live there - you're not even a human being. You're a puppet.

Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
- Live
- Me
- Star
My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. I think that for those of us who write, when we find a wonderful book written by someone else, we don't really get jealous, we get inspired, and that's kind of the mark of what a good writer is.

Patricia MacLachlan
- Writing
- Book
- Child
I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.

Malcolm Gladwell
After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.

Jack Prelutsky
- Idea
- Creatures
- Poems
In the past, in the '60s and '70s, genres were much more segmented. You had action guys who were deadly serious about it, and I think you had comics that were comics.

Adam McKay
- Think
- Past
- Action
I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.

Sam Heughan
- Money
- Why
- Job