#ten

I always had a powerful serve. It's one of the best in women's tennis. It's very good to have a weapon like that. ↗

— Li Na

#best #good #had #i #i always

I don't know how many years I can still play. I have to listen to my body and see how it feels. ↗

— Li Na

#feels #how #i #i can #know

I feel like my whole life only tennis. ↗

— Li Na

#i #i feel #i feel like #life #like

I felt sad because everyday I had to wake up early to practice before going to school. After school I had to go back to tennis again, and then after tennis I had homework. I didn't have time to play. ↗

— Li Na

#again #back #because #before #early

Tennis is best of three sets, so even if I lose the first set, I still have a chance. ↗

— Li Na

#chance #even #first #i #lose

Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions, present a condescending view not just of the religion but also of women living in Muslim majority countries, as if the desire for choice and happiness is the monopoly of women in the west. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#also #benign #choice #condescending #countries

My father in the film - which we probably haven't seen in previous movies, and in British Asian movies you could probably count on one hand - he says exactly why, actually why he's frightened for his daughter. He came to this country, England, and had a bit of a crappy time. ↗

— Parminder Nagra

#asian #bit #british #came #could

No, I didn't quite know to what extent the football might be, but it was quite a bonus for me to try to learn new skills and to keep fit at the same time. ↗

— Parminder Nagra

#extent #fit #football #i #keep

I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#find #fully #i #idea #intuition

I still think it's really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#mine #quality #quite #read #really