Beth Riesgraf Quotes
When I went to L.A., I started modeling, hoping to travel and learn from photographers. It led to auditions to do commercials.
Quotes to Explore
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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May nothing entice me till I happily make my way to Jesus Christ! Fire, cross, struggles with wild beasts, wrenching of bones, mangling of limbs – let them come to me, provided only I make my way to Jesus Christ.
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A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
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Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
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With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
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I've been into horses as far back as I can remember. There is a particular kind here in America called the 'quarter horse' that I'm very interested in.
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My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go to a hostile place like Afghanistan, I think we owe it to them to back them up and try to help them get through it.
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I was always looking to record, but how much I actually pursued it was another thing. The major labels weren't that interested in me, and the smaller labels didn't have any money to do anything.
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I knew I had to write a good screenplay to be taken seriously, and I knew I needed to present Mississippi on visuals instead of just saying, 'Hey I wanted to film it in Mississippi.' It would seem like it was a hometown boy just wanting to be home.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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Now at 47, 48 I am expected to do ten times better work that I did when I was 24.
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Kids coming out of college want that urban core excitement more and more.
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Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.
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I love a man who can wear my underwear.
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I have no doubt that given a real choice, the vast majority of Muslims and Arabs, like everyone else will choose a free society over a fear society.
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I like to control my own personal life.
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You improve yourself and light up the corner that you live on. You may not touch a gazillion lives, but you can light up your own space, light up your home.
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Traveling in Europe made me understand that America has an island mentality: No one exists except us. There's a whole other world out there, but most Americans - all they know is America, the marketing plan.
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You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance - a banker with no time with his kids, he's not successful. If he doesn't have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success - that is a mistake.
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No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own.
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A good umpire is the umpire you don't even notice. He's there all afternoon but when the game is over, you don't even remember his name.
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When I went to L.A., I started modeling, hoping to travel and learn from photographers. It led to auditions to do commercials.
