Nikolay Davydenko Quotes
I broke all my rackets. I didn't have a racket for the fifth set. I broke four. Now I hold the record. Now I go home. No rackets. I really don't like these rackets.
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.
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Don't be afraid to fall flat on your face.
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I built Kosovo for 10 years.
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My approach to every game was to try to erase the games that were before and try to focus on the game at hand.
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I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.
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It's finding those nonsensical pieces of conversation that we all do all the time. We do all the time. When we're talking on the telephone, there are arguments with people who agree when they both think that they disagree.
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I hadn't been in Vegas 20 minutes when I got word that the bookmakers were offering three to one that Frank wouldn't show for my wedding.
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The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be sick.
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Slow parents understand that childrearing should not be a cross between a competitive sport and product-development. It is not a project; it's a journey. Slow parenting is about giving kids lots of love and attention with no conditions attached.
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Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew,She sparkled, was exhal'd and went to heaven.
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For me, happiness is doing my best and trying to be helpful.
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I can't get into all that physical stuff of having to have flawless skin... Sometimes you see people and it looks like someone's got an eraser and made their face a little blurry - their traits seem to go out of focus.
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I'm a girl's girl. I'm a woman's woman. I'm a cool girl.
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Most people have fallen by the wayside once or twice in their lives, and because the world is so transparent now, I think they're very fearful of running for office.
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It's the Olympics. And it was a long way for me. To compete at the Olympic Games, I dreamed of any medal, but frankly speaking, I wanted a gold one.
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The average worker in 2015 wanting to attain the average living standard in 1915 could do so by working just 17 weeks a year, one third of the time. But most people don't choose to do that. They are willing to work hard to harvest the technological bounty that is available to them. Material abundance has never eliminated perceived scarcity.
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Poetry is what gets lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.
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Filling a theatre like the Olympia or Vicar Street on your own name is a very rewarding moment.
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Protect those who protect you.
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It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
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I love painting. I went to college in fine arts, and I still do it all the time.
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I broke all my rackets. I didn't have a racket for the fifth set. I broke four. Now I hold the record. Now I go home. No rackets. I really don't like these rackets.
