Ana Ivanovic Quotes
My parents themselves both went to university, and they very much expected me to be an intellectual and go through further education, and it's to kind of their surprise that I became an athlete.
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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
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I remember I was a little girl when Elizabeth Taylor stole Eddie Fisher from America's Sweetheart, Debbie Reynolds, and the reaction back then was enormous! And Angelina Jolie was in trouble, too, for taking a husband away from another America's Sweetheart. Don't take husbands from America's Sweethearts.
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Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.
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I am not a prisoner of conscious, but people try to make me one sometimes. It is both a gift and a curse. It's a high honour but can create limitations - I have to be fluid.
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You can't tag me as a regional actress.
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Rey is so strong. She's cool and smart and she can look after herself. Young girls can look at her and know that they can wear trousers if they want to. That they don't have to show off their bodies.
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Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
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I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
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The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.
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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
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You can't, no matter what anyone says, build a movie around someone.
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Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.
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If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.
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I would say I'm more fascinated by Big Daddy V than I am necessarily a huge fan of Big Daddy V. He simply threw on the double-strapped unitard... and now he's some sort of fearsome, fighting, wrecking machine.
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I wish I could sing. I love singers, but I am way too shy. Scares the hell out of me.
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I always preferred to hang out with the outcasts, 'cause they were cooler; they had better taste in music, for one thing, I guess because they had more time to develop one with the lack of social interaction they had!
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My parents were always Welsh-speaking and very proud of Wales.
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My parents themselves both went to university, and they very much expected me to be an intellectual and go through further education, and it's to kind of their surprise that I became an athlete.
