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"My brother Jeff is now my agent at Advantage International in Washington, D.C."
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"Our family, from day one, has only sought the simple truth in this matter."
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"And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie on the ground where they get hurt or get abused and dirty and can't find them. And some thoughts about how his father used to do things."
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"Blues and jazz pulled me away from what was left of my family."
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"I was a militant smoker, and in my case, I think I particularly used smoking because what I felt was a kind of politically correct big brother assault on smoking."
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"Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them."
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"Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving; the way of seeing the country, the faces that your father saw, that your mother knew. The rest is chimerical."
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"Do not forget you mother, when she is old."
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"The study of music was a family interest."
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"In fact, my mom always told me because I was the daughter of an Army officer born overseas in Paris, France, that under the Constitution she believed that I could never run for president."
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"I believed in raising my children as I had been raised."
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"Mary Joe Fernandez rarely has a bad loss. She never tries for stupid shots."
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"To meet my goals, I couldn't let up when I was playing tennis."
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"I was planning to remain an amateur for a while."
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"My mind started wandering. I started playing carefully, instead of playing the way that had gotten me to that point. I had to force myself to keep driving the ball."
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"My mom and dad met at UCLA when he as a captain in the Air Force and she was in her junior year."
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"Venus hasn't been to the semis for a couple of years in a Grand Slam - she's been coming back from injury."
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"I began playing in the Pacific Coast Indoor Tennis Championships."
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"When I was 11, I won my first nationals at Savannah, defeating Kelly Henry in the finals."
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"My sister and I are opposites in many ways. She is six feet tall, while I'm five feet four."
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"Pam has always been my glamorous big sister - 13 years older than I. She played on the women's circuit for nine years and came home to tell me stories of France, Japan."
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