Venus Williams Quotes
My goal is always the same: to keep the other player from ever scoring a point. That doesn't always happen, but that's what I try for.
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We don't really watch basketball in Australia.
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When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.
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In my career, there have been roles I haven't taken because someone involved with the project gave me a bad vibe. I don't care how much money is on the table: No job is worth feeling uneasy every day.
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The thing we often forget to talk about, or perhaps we take for granted, is our country's dazzling beauty. Our natural environment is so much a part of Australia's art, writing, music and culture, both indigenous and non indigenous.
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It is not easy to get parts in mainstream films for most people of color. Hollywood and British writers are not writing parts for us, or the directors are not interested in casting us in parts that are color-blind.
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I think the silences we have on some issues are inductive of the fact that we need to write about them more, but I think there are some issues you have to write in a sensitive way and in a way that respects the reality of the situation. If you can't do that, you should leave them alone.
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I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying, 'This is fiction.'
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In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth.
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Unless a Western's made money - doesn't matter who made the money, doesn't matter what the subject is - if the last one didn't make any money, you can't make another one for a four-year period. Westerns more than any genre.
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But there will come a time and a place to give back, and each individual will recognize that time and place.
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It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.
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And my marriage was perfect when I wasn't famous.
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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I have noticed, with much distress, the excessive wartime activity of the investigating bureaus of Congress and the administration, with their impertinent and indecent searching out of the private lives and the past political beliefs of individuals.
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I love music.
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Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.
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There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.
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I'm just willing to try different things. But you gotta keep it all making sense.
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SoftBank is not a specialist on any instrument. We did not invent any instrument. Not the best player. But we would like to be a conductor of this information revolution.
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In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.
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Keep your honor code between you and God, you don't break that, no matter who's not looking. God is.
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When you meet someone you love, whether or not they love you back, something occurs in you that makes you want to improve yourself.
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The old grim story so many times enacted – for the poor human race has always longed for a Redeemer to take up the burdens that human people themselves alone must carry.
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My goal is always the same: to keep the other player from ever scoring a point. That doesn't always happen, but that's what I try for.
