Jelena Djokovic: "When Novak loses a match, he questions his entire identity. He goes into a ‘leave me alone’ avoidance mode and closes the door. And Tara —when he wants to isolate himself, she doesn’t let him. He’s so in love with her that she has access to him that no one else has, and that’s how she brings him back to us. She’s daddy’s little girl." ❤️
Christopher Nolan talks about his writing process for The Odyssey:
“I tend not to write that many. Adapting a very academic history of Oppenheimer — beautifully written, but 700 pages, very dense — the approach to “The Odyssey” was sort of similar, in that I read it, then wrote a lot of notes from memory. I tend to think in geometric terms, mathematical terms. I do a lot of diagrams, a lot of scribbles and doodles for months and months, before I let myself write. Then — I suppose ironically for somebody who’s associated with nonlinear approaches — I write in a very intensely linear way. I start on Page 1 and just go forwards.”
(via @nytimes)
AB De Villiers on Vaibhav Suryavanshi's Pre match Routines. [JioStar]
"What’s most impressive about Vaibhav Suryavanshi is the clarity he already has around his preparation and routines at just 15 years of age. Hearing him talk about visualising match-ups, studying bowlers, and mentally preparing before games shows a level of maturity that is very rare at that age. It actually reminded me a little of Matthew Hayden, who used to spend time visualising on the pitch before batting. Over the course of his career, many of those routines will evolve, but the important thing is that Vaibhav is already building his own habits and processes instead of trying to copy others. The best players in the world eventually discover what works authentically for them, and Vaibhav already seems to have that understanding very early in his journey".