Beth Riesgraf Quotes
I love dressing up around the holidays! My friends also really like to get dressed up. It's an excuse to get fancy.
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Every country when they have Olympics, a lot of people come out opposed.
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When I lead essay workshops, I ask students to come up with at least five topics, which they'll narrow down to one. The winning idea should be the story the student is most excited to tell because it honestly reflects his or her best self.
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If you're in the best team in the world, you or your teammate have to win.
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We wrote 'Olive Kitteridge' as six hours, and they asked us to make it in four.
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I didn't grow up listening to The Smiths, but now I am a fan. I love his music and listened to so much of it for the film. It's not a regular biopic; they picked a part of his life that people don't really know about. You learn what informs his lyrics.
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We in the Middle East like to talk politics, we like to argue. Just look at the three prophets - Moses, Jesus and Mohammad. They are all from this small region which creates problems all the time.
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I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
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If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
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Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great.
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
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A lot of times people hide their quirks when they're first getting to know a person.
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I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare.
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A well-designed 401(k) plan is an enormous competitive edge when recruiting and retaining employees.
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.
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The death of Churchill at 90 was one of those watershed moments in which the obituary rises to a special calling beyond the sharing of remembered times. It gave an older generation a rare opportunity to explain something of itself to its children.
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My family is Chinese-Taiwanese. I'm from Richmond, Virginia. The community in which I grew up was pretty white. The storybooks you got at school featured white children and an animal, or animals, and as you got older, the novels you were assigned were about, like, the problems of white boys and their dogs.
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You never know when you start a project just how good it can be.
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I love dressing up around the holidays! My friends also really like to get dressed up. It's an excuse to get fancy.
