"I know China are very good in table tennis. Let me see what happens in tennis. I am pretty happy with the way I am playing."

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Source : "Henin-Hardenne survives in Qatar", cnn.com. March 3, 2004.

Anastasia Myskina

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“I hate feeling late. Someone else has the courtesy and respect to show up on time, and when I'm late, it's like telling them, "I don't respect you." Worst feeling in the world. It makes you really reflect on your priorities.”
“I made 5,127 prototypes of my vaccum before I got it right. There were 5,126 failures. But I learned from each one. Thatâ€™s how I came up with a solution. So I donâ€™t mind failure.”
“I see the main problem of my life, and indeed anybody's life, as the balancing of competitive freedoms ... a sense of mutual obligations that have to be honored, and a legal system which can be trusted to step in when that sense fails.”
“Mr Selfridge' is a lot more accessible than shows like 'Downton.' Everyone knows the store, but not everyone knows the story. Having this store as the backdrop with all of society working under one roof, I think it really captures people's imaginations.”
“... bringing up daughters for nothing but marriage, mingles poison in the cup of domestic life, is traitorous to the virtue of both sexes, for neither suffers alone--is adverse to the happiness, to the development of conscience and to religion, and introduces to the dwellings of wretchedness and despair. The result of this degradation is pride, intemperance, licentiousness--nay, every vice, misery, and degradation.”
“I put a lot of pressure on myself early in my life, like, "You have to be perfect; you can't do anything." You basically can't show any emotion and speak up. And then I realized that I have to live my life for myself.”
“If you start thinking about being likable you are not going to tell your story honestly.”
“Strong winds buffet the sea oats and tall dune grasses, tossing sand and seabirds where it will, winding my sister's golden hair into sunlit spirals of silk until it becomes the only good memory I have of her -- the only memory I allowed myself to keep.”

Source : Karen White (2008). “The Memory of Water”, p.11, Penguin

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