Beth Henley Quotes

You can't just go in there and open your mouth until the cast and director feel comfortable with you.

Beth Henley

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• The historical novelist has to consider what has actually happened, while the SF writer is dealing in possibilities, but they are both in the business of imagining a world unlike our own and yet connected to it.

  

  Pamela Sargent
  • World
  • Business
  • Own

• The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.

  

  Nancy Astor
  • People
  • Success
  • Bored

• In my view, Indian Railways has immense untapped potential.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • View
  • Potential
  • Indian

• What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • World
  • Live
  • Crazy

• What role should religion play in the American public school classroom? My own knee-jerk response would be, 'none whatsoever,' but the Constitution isn't quite so direct on the subject.

  

  Laura Moser
  • School
  • American
  • Religion

• Accepting your own mortality is like eating your vegetables: You may not want to do it, but it's good for you.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Good
  • May
  • Want

• School boards can be a steppingstone to higher forms of political leadership.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • School
  • Political
  • Leadership

• Figure out who you are.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • You
  • Figure
  • Out

• I feel that World Cup cricket should be played like football in which all the 160 countries take part. If only a handful of countries are going to keep on playing in the World Cup without making the game popular, I will be a sad man.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • World
  • Game
  • Man

• I know that my tendency is to be linear, and I'm trying to find ways to subvert that. And so in 'Bellocq's Ophelia' my device for subverting it was to tell the story and then to tell it again; it always circles back to this one moment, and it's not linear, but it's round in that way, and much of 'Native Guard' is like that.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Trying
  • Story
  • Moment

• When I'm writing, I'm trying to access my subconscious and turn off my conscious brain. I use my conscious for research, but when I'm actually writing, I'm trying to get into a place where I'm tapping into the deeper, darker elements of what's going on.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Brain

• My mother was an artist, and I was fairly good at art as a child. I was always the best drawer in class, except in second grade when an artistic genius passed through our school!

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • Good
  • School
  • Art

• I believe in a passion for inclusion.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Believe
  • Passion
  • Inclusion

• A writer who isn't writing is asking for trouble.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Writing
  • Trouble
  • Asking

• The poverty and unemployment which we came into existence to fight have been largely conquered

  

  Barbara Castle
  • Poverty

• Stolen sweets are always sweeter,Stolen kisses much completer,Stolen looks are nice in chapels,Stolen, stolen, be your apples.

  

  Leigh Hunt
  • Nice

• I'm open to anything. I think everyone should enjoy every moment that they experience.

  

  Dominique Swain
  • Experience

• Sometimes things just click. The one contribution I tried to do, was shield the staff from the corporate politics that occur on any show. But yes, we all got along very well.

  

  Joe Murray

• I want to work for a long, long time and keep growing in my work, and if I am very lucky and very blessed, maybe somewhere along the line there will be one movie in there that becomes a classic.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• I would say that I have a love-hate relationship with almost everything in my life, including stand-up.

  

  Chelsea Peretti
  • Life
  • Up
  • Hate

• Hold the sadness and pain of samsara in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the Great Eastern Sun. Then the warrior can make a proper cup of tea.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Time
  • Great
  • Heart

• If parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning. That way, their children don’t have to be slaves of praise. They will have a lifelong way to build and repair their own confidence.

  

  Carol S. Dweck
  • Children
  • Giving
  • Effort

• The sad news is, nobody owes you a career. Your career is literally your business. You own it as a sole proprietor. You have one employee: yourself. You need to accept ownership of your career, your skills and the timing of your moves.

  

  Andy Grove
  • Business
  • Career
  • Sad

• You can't just go in there and open your mouth until the cast and director feel comfortable with you.

  

  Beth Henley