Venus Williams Quotes
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I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I'm not making the films that American distributors want to make.
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The medication I had to take was a form of chemotherapy. You feel like death every day. No appetite. No energy. But the treatment worked. It cured my liver 80 per cent but compromised my kidneys.
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No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.
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There are as many ways to help another human being as there are people in need of help. For some, the urgent need is as basic as food and water. For others, it is an opportunity to develop a talent, realize an idea, and reach one's full potential.
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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
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I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you?
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Women dress very much according to their moods, so when you see their shoes, it really shows you the character and what they want to show to the world, and what they are feeling at that time.
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I do no writing while I'm in Belgrade visiting my grandma.
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I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.
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It's always difficult with the superhero stuff because you're working with characters who have been written by 100 to 200 people over the past 20 years, at least, so they never sound the same or act the same. The best approach is to try to draw the best fitting line through all of the interpretations.
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Seriously, I don't know if people would really tell you this. But in my dream world, the people who work for you would say, 'Wow, I didn't know I could do that until I started working with that guy.'
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Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.
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The train's always full of football fans going up to see matches. Oh, they make sure I hear their points of view all right. They all want to have their say about their team, and make their opinions known.
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The studio didn't ask them to learn their trade, they just worked them, and when that personality or that gimmick or whatever they had ran dry at the box office, they were dropped and out.
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I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.
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I will never answer that question of what are the challenges I face. You speak it into existence, and I choose to use that air for other things.
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Since the traditional recorded-music business models have drastically changed, there is truly diminished income derived from recorded music by artists - both current and catalog. The touring industry has become much more important as a majority revenue stream and the ancillary fan experiences and promotions that may be derived from it.
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I think to have the skill set and the ability to physically help others in matters of life and death must be incredibly empowering.
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Whenever kingship approaches tyranny it is near its end, for by this it becomes ripe for division, change of dynasty, or total destruction, especially in a temperate climate … where men are habitually, morally and naturally free.
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Singing is something I've always loved to do, and I'd never considered taking it further than the shower.
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I think It would be quite fun to play Bobby Riggs.
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If I didn't play tennis I don't know where I'd be.
