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 mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me.
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Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
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The fear of life, the fear of burdens and of duties, of annoyances and of catastrophes! The fear of life, which makes us, through dread of its sufferings, refuse its joys. Ah! I tell you, this cowardliness enrages me; I cannot forgive it. We must live - live a complete life - live all our life.
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To those of us who are not theologians, does it matter whether a thing is ordained or merely allowed? Are events that seem out of control caused by God? Or does He allow them to occur at the hands of human beings? You can spend a lot of time pondering that one and end up pretty much where you started. In either case, the purpose remains the same - our sanctification. God is in the business of making us walking, breathing examples of the invisible reality of the presence of Christ in us.
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In movement class, you had to lie on the floor and get your alignment in to pass the class.
