I don't make friends with the girls I'm playing against. It would be too painful to beat them. - Virginia Wade

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But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Virginia Wade

I don't make friends with the girls I'm playing against. It would be too painful to beat them.

Beat, Girl, Girls, Painful, Tennis, Would Be

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It's difficult for most people to imagine the creative process in tennis. Seemingly it's just an athletic matter of hitting the ball consistently well within the boundaries of the court. That analysis is just as specious as thinking that the difficulty in portraying King Lear on stage is learning all the lines.

Court, Kings, Learning, People, Process, Thinking

It's only when it comes to crunch time that people's true character comes out.

Athlete, Character, Crunch, People, Time

Tennis is a fine balance between determination and tiredness.

Balance, Determination, Tennis, Tiredness

When I am playing well I think I play such boring tennis.

Boring, Play, Playing, Tennis, Think, Thinking

At the end I couldn't hear what the Queen was saying to me. But it was just great to see her lips moving.

Hear, Lips, Moving, Queens, Tennis

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And we must still try or we would be leaving our friends to fight without us. I think this is what you have meant by duty, all along; I do understand, at least this much of it.

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Judith Viorst

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Primo Levi

If it is true that there is no greater sorrow than to remember a happy time in a state of misery, it is just as true that calling up a moment of anguish in a tranquil mood, seated quietly at one's desk, is a source of profound satisfaction.

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Paul Oakenfold

U2 and folks like that. They all have that similar drive and that belief in themselves. They're early birds. . . they're up working when everyone else is sleeping. They're simply all great at what they do.

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Camille Paglia

Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?

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