Beth Riesgraf Quotes
I moved from Minnesota to Las Vegas when I was 13, so I spent my high school years there and did some things I'm not proud of.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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I'm from Miami, I love it when we're out in the heat. When it's cold, I'm like, 'I'm never acting again,' because it's too freezing.
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The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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Remember that we are all human beings trying to do what we love to do.
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In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
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I think there are so many ways to become interested in music. I believe signs of sustained interest gives a sense of the right time. Music, if thought of as a language, would perhaps indicate that as early as possible is not so bad. I do believe that a really nurturing first teacher that makes the child love something is crucial.
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I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
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Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it.
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You can do anything as long as you have the passion, the drive, the focus, and the support.
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Even if I get thrown out of Hollywood, I'll come back.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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God has taken care of me, and mother dear has taken care of me, too. All my life.
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I love to get a massage but I'm quite a baby with it. I don't like them too hard or anyone walking on me or anything. When it's good, it's the best thing ever. When it's bad, it's an hour of absolute agony.
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Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.
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The core of the person is what he or she loves, and that is bound up with what they worship - that insight recalibrates the radar for cultural analysis. The rituals and practices that form our loves spill out well beyond the sanctuary. Many secular liturgies are trying to get us to love some other kingdom and some other gods.
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My childhood dream was to study mechanical engineering. After reading 'The Mysterious Island' - which I read 25 times as a boy - I thought that was the best thing a person could do. The engineer in the book knows mechanics and physics, and he creates a whole way of life on the island out of nothing. I wanted to be like that.
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A culture is only as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamed by artists.
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I wasn't in school often enough to really belong to a 'clique,' but my friends all studied hard and got pretty good grades. They were good people with self-respect. I still like to be friends with people I admire something about; I really believe that we become like the people we're surrounded by, so I choose my friends carefully!
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If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.
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I moved from Minnesota to Las Vegas when I was 13, so I spent my high school years there and did some things I'm not proud of.
