Roger Federer Quotes
I have to fit holidays around tournaments, particularly the grand slams, in Melbourne, Paris, London and New York.
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If you haven't got it. Fake it! Too short? Wear big high heels, but do practice walking!
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It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.
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And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
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All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and Them, good and bad, white and black.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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People still do fall in and out of love and can and cannot express what they feel and are very much pained because the person they love is with somebody else. That's happening the whole world over, and I think it always has been.
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As the youngest of three girls, most of my childhood works were revenge fantasies against my older sisters, so of course the sisters in 'Pretty Girls' share some similarities to my own.
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I think any time people behave in a way that's truly them, then they'll never fail. You get in trouble when you try to copy others.
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I think the varied backgrounds in the beginning were a plus. It took a while for people to understand what they were trying to do and get started, but it did provide for a lot of new ideas.
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Writing is immensely difficult. The short forms especially.
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I have thousands and thousands of hats. Some are the most outrageous hats in the world. They are my disguise. I hide beneath them.
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I have my aluminum siding business, and that's going like a house afire.
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The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their captors, and the reports of acts of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and other acts of maltreatment shock the conscience.
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I really liked to perform. My mother always tells this story: I was five. They had a party, and they'd put me to bed. I heard everyone on the rooftop, and I went upstairs. No one paid any attention to me, so I took a hose and sprayed everyone. Very elegant, right? 'It's me! Look at me!' I loved the attention.
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Everything in my life - family, friends, even my fiance - are all second to soccer. And I've won every tournament where I haven't had anyone there. It just seems to work for me. I don't think I'm going to change that.
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Always remember, Peggy, it's matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.
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Each time I'm training and sparring, I'm always pushing myself to submit my training partners.
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'Taxi Driver' was the best thing that ever happened to me, and I didn't become a weirdo and squawk like a chicken.
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I've always felt very English.
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James Brown is the perfect example of flashy but classy. Classy doesn't have to mean boring. His gear was flamboyant but without being so over the top. The cape was probably the biggest part of his persona. He looked like Superman.
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Most people in this country believe that the American Communist Party and its dupes are the chief internal enemy of our economic system and our form of government. This is a serious mistake.
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I am in show business. I don't, for a minute, ever forget that this is a business that I'm involved in, and it plays by business' rules.
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I have to fit holidays around tournaments, particularly the grand slams, in Melbourne, Paris, London and New York.
