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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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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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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I've always had a 'Work hard, play hard' attitude to life - I still do - but sometimes you get involved in something that needs a calm, methodical approach.
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I really wanted to work and become independent.
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I wanted to inspire people not to work under a bamboo ceiling. Whatever you are - yellow, black, white, brown - you don't have to allow your skin to define who you are or how you operate your business. There's not one face to anything.
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I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.
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I knew I was Yoruba and Nigerian for the first 9 years of my life. I did not become conscious of my color and all that came with it until I moved to the United States with my family.
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I'm in an interracial marriage.
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I may be smaller in size, but I'm pretty feisty. I don't give up easily once I get started.
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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.
