Studying is something I really love doing, and I just hope to have enough money for tuition.

A woman can beat any man; it's difficult to imagine another kind of sport where a woman can beat a man. That's why I like chess.

Chess is changing. I hope chess is getting more popular, more spectacular.

When you stop playing for a while, people tend to forget about you.

It's a shame to be the face of chess and to play chess badly.

I have never been a professional model; I have had some modeling sessions.

You have to win something for people to think about you.

It's now possible to play and take lessons from any place of the world. The concept of physical distance doesn't exist in the online world, and that is so cool!

If people will be interested in me, they will be interested in chess also.

Every great story begins with a very courageous step into the land of the unknown.

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Light is life.Life is love.Love is divine

When you feel like you're crazy because you think differently than the people around you, God sends a confirmation that you've not lost it.

London is a dead duck, as far as innovative new music is concerned, unless you want to have your head blown off with some outrageous, rubbish, pounding dance music.

There would be economic disruption in Omaha from expanded gambling...You would just be moving Chernobyl closer to the population center

The greatest object in educating is to give a right habit of study.

I think for anyone - male or female - in improv, the biggest thing to get over is the fear. I think every improviser has that.

There is no point in going into a business unless you can make a radical difference in other people’s lives.

What replaces Christianity isn't going to be Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and so on. It's going to be something else and something secular people may not like very much.