Laura Robson Quotes
I don't just want to be someone who hits the ball 100 per cent every time. You can play with freedom and still mix up the pace, mix up the spins and everything like that. That's what I want to be doing, because you get into that very one-dimensional kind of tennis if you don't work on slicing and coming into the net.
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Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.
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The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character, and people will be taken up with your character, not your clothes.
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I'm not a big fan of doing what my mother wants me to do, like any daughter.
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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I have a theory that there are still parts of our mental worlds that are still based around the age of between five and eight, and we just kind of pretend to be grown-up.
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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
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I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.
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We feel like 'Lost' deserved a real resolution, not a 'snow globe, waking up in bed, it's all been a dream, cut to black' kind of ending. We thought that would be kind of a betrayal to an audience that's been on this journey for six years. We thought that was not the right ending for our show.
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I was so ashamed of who I was.
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The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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I find myself really feeling like it's possible that maybe the greater contribution I'm going to be able to make through this next phase of my life might be as a writer writing wonderful parts for women, or even writing wonderful parts for myself, you know?
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If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.
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Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
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Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
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I had just 15 days to work on my body for the climactic fight of 'Bodyguard.' And I would work on every muscle of my body two/three times a week. I would have developed a superb body if I had three months, but squeezing it into 15 days can be harmful. Also, as you grow older, your metabolic rate slows down.
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A lot of times people hide their quirks when they're first getting to know a person.
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It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.
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A lot of directors straight out of film school are very technically minded, but they don't have an understanding of actors or how to talk to them.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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I used to do a lot of plays in English, Hindi, and Urdu. I wanted to be an actor since I was three and a half.
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We need to do things better, but in a way that makes sense.
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I used to write on pads with a pen but had trouble reading the words the next day. Years later, Bob Dylan taught me to just write and write on a laptop computer. Then I'd print that out. When it was time to write a song, I'd go through the pages and sing melodies to words that moved me.
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I don't just want to be someone who hits the ball 100 per cent every time. You can play with freedom and still mix up the pace, mix up the spins and everything like that. That's what I want to be doing, because you get into that very one-dimensional kind of tennis if you don't work on slicing and coming into the net.
