Venus Williams Quotes
It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.
Venus Williams
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I don't consider myself a feminist, but I feel very empowered as a woman, and I've used all my resources widely. I believe in equality, but that's just naturally happening. I still want a door opened for me, to be treated like a lady, but I also want equal rights for women, of course.
Pamela Anderson
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I am a man of tomorrow, but I also live my past.
Yair Lapid
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I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.
Yoko Ono
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We're seeing a crazy appetite for people to acquire and invest in British businesses.
Natalie Massenet
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I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.
Natalie Portman
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Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one should ever feel like attempting a kind of artistic endeavor is beyond your scope just because of age or inexperience.
Tea Obreht
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Generally, I get bad reviews in Turkey.
Orhan Pamuk
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If you have ever driven around London and seen the amount of one way systems... they basically rubbed out all car chase crime. In fact, if you get bank robberies in the U.K., they're using scooters.
Edgar Wright
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'Saving Grace,' even though fictionally it was set in Oklahoma, we shot it right outside of L.A.
Bailey Chase
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I know girlfriends of mine who, when they were approaching pregnancy and starting a family, consistently went through a period right beforehand that was a last gasp kind of thing where they just wreak havoc. They fall apart, in a profound way, because there's some awareness that that's the last time they can do that for awhile.
Mamie Gummer
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
Nadia Giosia
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No history can be a faithful mirror. If it were, it would be as long and as dull as life itself. It must be a selection, and, being a selection, must inevitably be biased.
T. E. Hulme
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There are times that you have a plot in your head, but then you find that the characters don't want to do that. When you're looking at the story from the outside, you can create whatever twists and turns you want. But when you're writing, you're inside the characters' heads, and you see that they may be motivated to do something different.
Ramez Naam
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Sometimes I like to vent.
Victoria Jackson
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I'm an obsessive. When I get a problem, a question in my mind, it can take me over.
Barbara Ehrenreich
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We will meet; and there we may rehearse most obscenely and courageously.
William Shakespeare
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When a novelist has “something to say,” they mean a message. It has political connotations, or a religious message, or a moral prescription. It means “commitment,” as used by Sartre and other fellow-travelers. They are saying that the writer has a world view, a sort of truth that he wishes to communicate, and that his writing has an ulterior significance. I am against this.
Alain Robbe-Grillet
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It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.
Venus Williams
