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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My chief consolation in this year of living dyingly has been the presence of friends.
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'Staunch conservatives' and 'free marketeers' are fairly typical Republicans, while the 'American preservationists' are far less reliably a part of a GOP coalition.
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I had many different careers early on. I knew I wanted to be a writer. But, like so many people, I didn't know how to be one - other than just do it. I didn't know what form it would take.
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There will always be kids in every generation that understand that Lady Gaga is not music, it's theater.
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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?
