Venus Williams Quotes
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Using phrases or mantras to encourage and comfort myself has been a powerful practice for me. For years, I would say to myself 'Remember the purple sky' when I was feeling anxious, which to me meant remember a sense of internal spaciousness and kindness toward myself.
Maggie Rowe -
Your agent should be invested in the success of your book past the contract stage. After all, if it sells well, she's going to be getting 15 percent of every dime you make. She can be your best advocate in fighting for your book - not just with editing and the cover, but with marketing and sales as well.
M. J. Rose -
Even when I was making the first 'Paranormal Activity,' I didn't tell anyone I was making it, not my friends or neighbors or co-workers. I just kind of found that there was nothing to gain by announcing to the world that you're doing something.
Oren Peli -
Inappropriateness is funny to me. Rudeness is hilarious.
Zach Galifianakis -
Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
A. S. Byatt -
I tend not to wear ties very often. I'm usually in old stuff: Hermes or Marc Jacobs boots and jeans and a T-shirt and a leather jacket or a jean jacket.
Nate Berkus
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I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
We believe in funding family planning because it helps to prevent unintended pregnancy. We believe that a woman considering an abortion should not be forced to have an ultrasound against her will.
Nancy Keenan -
I get asked to comment a lot on inequality in cycling, but for me it has never been an issue. Everything has always been equal on the track, and the male and female riders are all part of the same team, and we all mix freely.
Laura Trott -
Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.
Saina Nehwal -
There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.
Jack Nicholson -
I never went to fashion school. I didn't know what a designer was. I knew I had something, but I didn't know what it was. And it could just have easily been nothing.
Ralph Lauren
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Everybody has to agree that the best thing we can do to start reducing the deficit in this country is to put people back to work.
Ted Deutch -
To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.
Ian Botham -
'The more expensive the better' is kind of the American way, and if you spent $600 for a sweatshirt, then that makes it better.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty -
I have a Stella McCartney Adidas sports bra. I feel like I'm totally comfortable running. No problem. I have support where I need it.
Pamela Anderson -
I had to deal with being somewhat of an outcast because it's not socially acceptable to be a struggling musician. There have been times where I've felt sorry for the person I was dating. I felt she deserved better.
Taylor Hicks -
The sound of the blades on the ice in the morning is like smelling fresh coffee.
Tara Lipinski
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I was always telling everyone, I want to be a broadcaster. They'd say, What, are you crazy? What, you're going to be Arthur Godfrey?
Larry King -
The goal was always to do something that felt human but was 100 percent electronic.
Flume -
You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.
Beatrice Wood -
We don't have enough young, female antiheroes. We don't accept women as antiheroes the way we do the men.
Natalie Dormer -
My family life reads a bit like 'Little House on the Prairie.' I was big sister to Joan, Renee, and brother William, and we grew up in Dalkey, a little town 10 miles outside of Dublin. It was a secure, safe and happy childhood, which was meant to be a disadvantage when it comes to writing stories about family dramas.
Maeve Binchy -
You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner.
Venus Williams