Mary Beth Patterson (Beth Ditto) Quotes
You know, either I'm too fat or I'm flavour of the month. I don't feel either, but maybe I'm both, who knows?
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When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.
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My own journey in becoming a poet began with memory - with the need to record and hold on to what was being lost. One of my earliest poems, 'Give and Take,' was about my Aunt Sugar, how I was losing her to her memory loss.
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I just want to continue with gymnastics because I'm still young and fresh. I think can get some more titles under my belt.
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There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting.
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I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.
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Research shows that whether you are low-income or not, mindset is a bigger predictor of success than academic skills, and how students gain great academic skills and persevere in the face of challenges.
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I think I lost at least 40% of my fans when I became blond. They didn't recognize me anymore.
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They tell me: 'OK, this is where we're going to push up your cleavage,' and I'm like, 'What cleavage?'
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The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved.
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I got intrigued by working in small theatres.
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I try to not read about myself. I think it's easier to have it out of sight and out of mind.
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Obviously, waste disposal is an enormous and fantastic industry.
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Young people are forced to mature sooner now than in the '40s. I was doing things at age 14 that guys in the movie were just beginning to do at 16 and 17.
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'These people have successfully incorporated a belief in your martial prowess into their religion; how can you deny them?''Believe me, it would be easy.'
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Those who derive satisfaction by perpetuating pain in others will probably not stop their tirade against me. I do not expect them to. But, I pray in all humility, that they at least now stop irresponsibly maligning the 6 crore people of Gujarat.
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Πρὸς κέντρα μὴ λάκτιζε.
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Shadow is the diminution alike of light and of darkness, and stands between darkness and light.
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For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.
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Music is a great catalyst for emotion because it gets to your core.
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These internal clashes in Israel nowadays are in a sense a continuation of a clash between Islam and Christendom through their former Jewish minorities and it works out in a number of different ways. It's fascinating to watch. And I hope they succeed in finding a compromise. At the moment, there doesn't seem to be much sign of it.
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Writing a book is not easy.
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To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening, was to forget breakfast instantly. It was agreeable too - it really was - to see him cut it off so smooth and juicy. There was nothing savage in the act, although the knife was large and keen; it was a piece of art, high art; there was delicacy of touch, clearness of tone, skilful handling of the subject, fine shading. It was the triumph of mind over matter; quite.
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You know, either I'm too fat or I'm flavour of the month. I don't feel either, but maybe I'm both, who knows?
