Beth Henley Quotes
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part, the Indian part. The part of me that loves London, and the part that longs for Bombay. And at my typewriter, alone, I could indulge this.
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I'm a Muslim. I don't try to hide it. I'm also a girl who loves music.
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I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.
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Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated.
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As his talent expands, some of his stories become pointed social commentary; some are surprisingly effective religious tracts, disguised as science fiction. Others still are nostalgic vignettes, but under it all is still Bradbury, the poet of 20th-century neurosis.
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The retirement timing is always a tricky thing for a dancer. I think it's different for everyone. How you say goodbye to the thing you have really focused on that much is a tough one. I've always intended to leave in good shape, to exit on a high note.
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I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles.
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Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.
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I just kind of assumed that you do a movie and then you leave and you hop onto the next thing. I never thought that people are actually buddies.
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When decentralized blockchain protocols start displacing the centralized web services that dominate the current Internet, we'll start to see real internet-based sovereignty. The future Internet will be decentralized.
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I don't really give into all that philosophical talks that 'money is not everything.'
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I have a little bit of that gamer spirit in me. I just don't have the time to be a gamer. But in another life, I would be one.
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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.
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When I think about parallels between myself and an Olympian, I believe that success in the world of business is underpinned by very similar principles of perseverance and hard work.
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The thing about Memphis is that it's pleasingly off-kilter. It's a great big whack job of a city. The anti-Atlanta. You go there, and you can't believe the things people will say, the way they think, the wobbling orbits of their lives. There's an essential otherness.
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Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.
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If you're planning only to make money and nothing else, you'll be broke.
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The decision to incentivise savings for pension funds augurs well for infrastructure financing and retirement planning.
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Some things, you know, if you say them, it makes them not true?
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My fault now is making my plays too short.
