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I never wanted to change countries; it's something that is part of me. ↗

— Novak Djokovic

#countries #i #me #never #part

I stopped thinking too much about what could happen and relied on my physical and mental strength to play the right shots at the right time. ↗

— Novak Djokovic

#could #happen #i #mental #much

It gives me goose bumps and little butterflies in the stomach when I start thinking about the 'golden slam.' ↗

— Novak Djokovic

#bumps #butterflies #gives #golden #goose

Not everybody can like what I do, and if you feel that somebody is coming up closer to you and starting the rivalry and everything, you maybe change your position to him. ↗

— Novak Djokovic

#closer #coming #everybody #everything #feel

People look up to me as somebody who is able to switch the image of our country from negative to positive. ↗

— Novak Djokovic

#country #image #look #me #negative

The confidence is there, the game is there, but physically you can't fight nature sometimes. You can't do much about it. ↗

— Novak Djokovic

#confidence #fight #game #much #nature

I think the success of 'Downton' is partly because there are effectively 18 leading characters, all given equal importance, so it's enormously involving on many levels. But also, it's a new story. It's not like Dickens or Austen, where everyone knows the denouement. ↗

— Michelle Dockery

#austen #because #characters #dickens #effectively

A period of time is as much an organising principle for a work of fiction as a sense of place. You can do geography, as Faulkner did, or you can dwell on a particular period. It provides the same framework. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#dwell #faulkner #fiction #framework #geography

The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#constant #cults #go #history #into

It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days a week. And it would include research and reading - it wasn't just a blank page, laying down words. ↗

— Anthony Doerr

#blank #blank page #days #down #five