Beth Orton Quotes
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I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting projects.
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My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard enough.
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The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
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Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them.
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Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.
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Betty Ford and I were colleagues for years, working together for women's rights in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere in the country.
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The bad reviews get to me, believe me.
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I'm obviously really opinionated, but as a producer, you don't necessarily want the person you're working with to try to impress you - you want them to just be themselves. Then you can edit or mess around with what they've come up with. But you have to allow the artist that space.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.
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Car chases are as painstaking to make as they are fun to watch. They take a lot of time, and you have to keep the energy up.
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Growing up, there were TV shows that were very funny but very traditional. Classic things like 'Fawlty Towers,' obviously, and 'Blackadder' were pretty traditionally shot. And then there were the ones that start to break the mold or be really ambitious. The ones that spring particularly to mind would be 'The Young Ones.'
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I've never had a job. I've never needed to.
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There's still is a status-quo group at City Hall who likes things done the old way, behind closed doors.
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I spent two years figuring out how I could turn it into something that would satisfy me as a musician but also make some kind of cross-cultural link. I feel that I kind of at least touched on the possibilities of cross-cultural music, but it is a lifetime's work, and I don't profess to be anything other than a novice at it.
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A man is as alive as he can communicate.
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In Latin America, you don't do things for the money because there is no money.
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I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much.
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
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The Hamptons remind me of my childhood vacations. I love the beach, restaurants, and produce found on the East End.
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[The blues] is the antidote for sadness and depression.
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It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we call Election Day.
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It is always a gamble to agree to publish something one has not yet read oneself.
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Heaven is what we spend our lives trying to find.
