"I submit that tennis is the most beautiful sport there is and also the most demanding. It requires body control, hand-eye coordination, quickness, flat-out speed, endurance, and that weird mix of caution and abandon we call courage. It also requires smarts. Just one single shot in one exchange in one point of a high-level match is a nightmare of mechanical variables."

-- David Foster Wallace

#Beautiful Quotes #Sports Quotes #Smart Quotes

“I am definitely someone who needs to take a second by myself and stretch and breathe before a show.”
“I'm happy that I have agents and managers that believe in me.”

Source : "Tricia Helfer Gives Us the Lowdown on Burn Notice". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. February 27, 2009.
“You have to contort your body in a certain way to hit a low note. When you're on film, you can't. So you do, in a sense, get to hide behind your voice, which is nice.”
“Ain is a marvelous purifier... It is not necessary to beat the child into submission; a little bit of pain goes a long way for a young child. However, the spanking should be of sufficient magnitude to cause the child to cry genuinely.”
“As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.”
“Training leaders is part of the work of discipling.”
“I'm lucky that most of the time I'm on location in amazing places. Most of the time, I don't need holidays, I just stop working.”
“People don’t fear the wind until it fells a tree. Then, they say it’s too much.”

Source : Sefi Atta (2012). “Everything Good Will Come”, p.73, Interlink Publishing

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