Roger Federer Quotes
The crowds are very important for tennis. It makes you play better, but it can also make you nervous and that's the beauty of it.
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Conflict is the pursuit of truth.
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It feels very cool to be part of a girl gang.
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The path of skullduggery is made easier with a coating of morality, which is aptly applied to an established custom, by the lawyer and the professor of economics. And so, the business of taking what does not belong to you has been well obfuscated by a ‘philosophy’ of taxation’.
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People are going to bash you. You get rejected. It's hard. I don't really feel like that's my place as the teacher. I think the most important thing is to figure out what they're trying to do and turn them onto writers who are doing similar stuff. I think that's something I can do more than anything else: get them to be big readers.
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The crowds are very important for tennis. It makes you play better, but it can also make you nervous and that's the beauty of it.
