I am happy to have played a match and break the rhythm of daily training.
I did not grow up with people, you know, pounding in my head, 'This is what you've got to do, this is what you're going to do.'
I TiVo 'CSI,' 'CSI: Miami,' 'Grey's Anatomy,' 'Young and The Restless' - my husband hates that one - and that's pretty much it.
I like to draw, produce paintings, do something with my fingers - but I am very normal, down-to-earth person.
I think if people ask, 'How is Marion Bartoli?', they will always respond, 'She's a nice person.' That's what I'm most proud of.
You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it's the right thing to do out there.
I always had the theory that the most important thing is be happy, enjoy what are you doing, and be fresh mentally.
My serve can get better, for sure. It's not just about serving bombs, but positioning, variation in speed, in spin.
I live where I would like to live. I live in Majorca, Spain, and I am not sure there are better places.
As a top player, you have to keep your emotions in check. You think you can control everything.
Everybody has their story - at some point you have to say, 'This is who I am: Now it's up to me to become what I want to be.'
It gives me goose bumps and little butterflies in the stomach when I start thinking about the 'golden slam.'
Mostly the problems when I was down were caused by myself. There were times when I was not responsible enough or decisive enough.
I always try to have something that keeps my mind relaxed, keeps my mind a little bit off tennis.
The only one I feel pressure from is myself to go and give my all for every match and, obviously, I'm a competitor.
I just go out there and fight for every point, and then we see how far I can go.
My experience of test screenings is that you don't know what kind of mood people are going to be in, and sometimes the studios accept what Joe Blo says - and this guy could just be a frustrated filmmaker, or not paying attention.
Passover takes place in the home rather than the synagogue and centers around an epic meal - the seder - so you remember Passover as storytelling, you remember it in food, and you remember it in the family.
My job as a human being as well as a writer is to feel as thoroughly as possible the experience that I am part of, and then press it a little further.
I really was very impressed with DMX during the whole experience on 'Romeo Must Die.' I like working with him. I liked him. And I was very impressed with the reaction of the audience when he was in the picture.
I put myself in a spiritual and physical place where I've learned from experience the synapses are likely to fire and the juices are likely to flow, and simply begin to write.
