Beth Henley Quotes
In movement class, you had to lie on the floor and get your alignment in to pass the class.
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My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 years old. I didn't even see his stand-up, really, until I started doing stand-up, and that was when I was 22. So he's pretty strict. We had curfews until I was 17... he didn't play around.
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With comedy, it's really hard to tell if something's working on the page - you really need the actors to bring it alive. The scariest part is if people will laugh or not.
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Our favorite holding period is forever.
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And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is.
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I have such a huge girl crush on Beyonce.
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The people of Iran have had to endure repressive laws that have stifled their freedom of speech and religion for too long.
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I take my work seriously.
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I think everyone's a little afraid of being part of a trend, because you get compared to each other. Writers tend to have a lot of camaraderie, and when you're constantly compared to someone else, it kind of damages that camaraderie, but I think this is a great trend. I'm honored to be a part of it in many ways.
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God and death kind of resemble each other, because the only time a lot of people will try and talk to God is when someone's died.
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People resent movies that try to tell them exactly what to feel.
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Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.
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I still want to hold on to my beliefs, and as long as I have that, I won't stray too far from politics.
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I'll stop talking about race when people stop being racist.
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I was happy in the midst of dangers and inconveniences.
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Acting is a sport - especially working with Mark Rylance. There is competition involved. I have to be muscular, challenging, get audiences on side. It's extraordinary how Globe audiences join in - it's like competing at an event - I love it.
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There's a nastiness to conversations about U.S. education reform, which are characterized by the kind of stark taking-of-sides that's usually reserved for debates over guns or abortion rights.
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Every human - especially the most vulnerable, the unborn, the infirm, those ravaged by age and those desperate in despair - should be protected in law, loved, and told repeatedly of their incredible beauty and worth.
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Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy.
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My parents were strict. They weren't as strict on me as they were with the others, but my mother didn't want us to get on anyone's nerves... Go to someone else's house and drive their parents crazy. Another thing was they didn't want us to get into a lot of things that a lot of kids - if they're not careful - can slip into.
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Donald Trump begins his political career in birtherism. That idea is connected to a very, very old notion that African-Americans are not citizens.
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I try to teach my kids to be open.
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When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.
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At the unveiling at the White House of the presidential portrait, President Bush pointed out that Hillary Clinton was the first sitting Senator in history to have her portrait hanging in the White House.
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In movement class, you had to lie on the floor and get your alignment in to pass the class.
