Marion Bartoli Quotes

The first time at age 5 and a half, when I took a racket in my hands and my father fed me some balls, I made 50 backhands in a row - didn't miss a single one.

Marion Bartoli

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: October 2, 1984

Topics

FatherAgeTimeMeHandsBalls

I am like the sick sheep that strays from the rest of the flock. Unless the Good Shepherd takes me on His shoulders and carries me back to His fold, my steps will falter, and in the very effort of rising, my feet will give way.

St. Jerome

GoodI AmEffortMeSickRest

The Blues scene now is international. In the '50s it was purely something that you would hear in black clubs, played by black musicians, especially in America. But from the '60s onwards it changed.

Mick Taylor

BlackMusiciansAmericaYouBlues

Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers.

Michael Morpurgo

LifeLiveGreatPeopleLearnMeet

Filming is like a house, you have to feel comfortable in it.

Luc Dardenne

FeelYouHouseComfortableLike

When I started playing basketball, they always would have me at the block, and I'm like, 'Yo, I don't want to play down here. I want to do something else.' This is not entertaining to me, and whatever the guards do, I wanted to do.

Deandre Ayton

MeBasketballDownPlayWantAlways

Lately I've been believing that music predates speech.

Debbie Harry

MusicSpeechBelievingBeenLately

Everyone finds their own version of Charles Dickens. The child-victim, the irrepressibly ambitious young man, the reporter, the demonic worker, the tireless walker. The radical, the protector of orphans, helper of the needy, man of good works, the republican. The hater and the lover of America. The giver of parties, the magician, the traveler.

Claire Tomalin

GoodManAmericaYoungYoung Man

If I'm in a state about a book, I'll get up at 6 A.M. and write before breakfast, but usually I'll start afterwards and then work a full day with a break for lunch.

Claire Tomalin

WorkDayBreakfastLunchStartBook

If you want to achieve something and have results and win competitions at a high level, you have to defend as a team.

Arjen Robben

TeamWinYouResultsAchieveWant

I never felt, 'Oh, I think I look good.' I always tend to be more in the insecure side. And I thought that has always been a way to protect myself. Because I don't trust the good feelings that can come from that.

Penelope Cruz

GoodMyselfTrustThinkThoughtWay

I'm more of a debit card person, and I live in the 'now'. I don't like credit cards anymore. I try to live with whatever I can afford and don't try to put myself in an awkward position. I've done that before.

Shane Filan

LiveMyselfCreditI CanCardsDone

The 'reality' shows on television, the Internet, these things have encouraged people to behave with less and less restraint. We are broadcasting our emotions in public in a way that has never happened before.

Tim Pigott-Smith

PeopleRealityInternetEmotionsWay

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