Rafael Nadal Quotes
I always work with a goal - and the goal is to improve as a player and a person. That, finally, is the most important thing of all.
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I call myself a feminist, not a feminist filmmaker. If somebody asked me if I had a feminist sensibility it would be pretty hard to deny, but is it the theme of my work? Not necessarily. I'm interested in a lot of things.
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The most important fact is that gays have been here since day one. To say otherwise is a gross denial and stupidity. We played an enormous part in the history of America.
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What people are looking for are candidates and representatives that are going to work hard, tell it like it is. I'm unafraid to do things when it doesn't poll well.
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When I wrote 'Hatchet,' I knew that I was not re-inventing the wheel. That was never my intention. My goal was to make an '80s-style slasher flick that actually holds up. Basically, I wanted to make the movie that I wanted to see and pay no mind to current trends or conventions.
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Helping set the day's agenda and deciding what we used and editing it, that was a journalistic high point. I liked reporting as well. Just doing the news - the live performance - wasn't important. Working on the desk was.
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When I grew up, the thing boys would do during the summer is work tobacco because it was a cheap product back then. I didn't want to do that. From an early, early, early age, I was like, 'I like music. This performing thing comes easy.' And perhaps that's how I ended up doing what I'm doing today. Being a musician.
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If you're passionate about your work, it makes the people around you want to be involved too.
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Glory is attained from hard work, step by step.
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Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.
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I see myself not only as a football player, but an entertainer and icon.
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I've worked with very few that I considered unpleasant. Dennis the Menace was a joy to work on.
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To keep art stimulating, it's important to open it up to new horizons, which includes showing it in unexpected contexts.
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America's growth historically has been fueled mostly by investment, education, productivity, innovation and immigration. The one thing that doesn't seem to have anything to do with America's growth rate is a brutal work schedule.
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The discourse of the West and the attitudes of its leaders are important because they influence public debate in Turkey.
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Focus comes a lot more easily when you desperately want the results of your own work - nobody else is going to do it for you.
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My mountaineering skills are not important to my best photographs, but they do add a component to my work that is definitely a bit different than that of most photographers.
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There's not a day that I don't work on vocals, have vocal coaches, go to acting classes, read books.
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Turns out you have a really fun time if you go to work every day and focus on being silly and funny and happy!
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If we are happy within ourselves, we don't accept or demand that our partner should fulfill every need. We need to be comfortable with our own company.
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Fame for fame's sake is toxic - some people want that, with no boundaries. It's unhealthy.
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It is impossible that there should be inhabitants on the opposite side of the Earth, since no such race is recorded by Scripture among the descendants of Adam.
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I long for my garden to be complete. Working in it is one of my joys, but it will never be finished because it's forever changing with the seasons.
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We are having trouble finding teachers to teach STEM. We also need to make sure schools have the resources. Some communities have multiple computers for each student in their schools. Other schools don't have textbooks, let alone computers.
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I always work with a goal - and the goal is to improve as a player and a person. That, finally, is the most important thing of all.
