Bethany Joy Lenz Quotes
I love the romance of the '40s. It was the perfect time to live. Technology wasn't so advanced that it made life more difficult, but it was just enough that you can send a phone call or a telegram. And people still took pride in how they looked. The men got dressed up and the women got dressed up and they took care of themselves.
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People should be able to express their culture without getting into all that chauvinistic thing.
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Predators make it much more difficult to find consensus. It's a lot easier to agree about birds and plants than about animals that endanger people and livestock.
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I've never seen anyone handling pans in the streets of New York, and if I did I doubt I'd give them money, unless I needed a pan. I do give money to homeless people, whether they ask or no.
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You have to understand that while I pre-plot the meta story of a given book, I often have no idea of what will happen on the next page, let alone the next chapter. That's what makes it fun for me; I write the books the same way many people read them.
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I was scared, because I knew that in the political arena, you have to satisfy so many different types of people at once, and I wasn't sure that I could speak for everybody and be politically correct.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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Chinatown is tremendously interesting... It's a part of the city that hasn't really been explored in crime literature or in any general literature. It's as though Chinatown didn't exist. People write about New York without mentioning Chinatown at all.
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The women's movement ruined a permanent vacation.
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President Mandela was not a hands-on president at any time.
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I've stood my ground in life, alone, even against overwhelming forces with the might and money to crush me.
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Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.
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I remember, in my first show in New York, they asked, 'Where is the Indian-ness in your work?'... Now, the same people, after having watched the body of my work, say, 'There is too much Indian philosophy in your work.' They're looking for a superficial skin-level Indian-ness, which I'm not about.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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My life has been very lucky, but I made some of that luck.
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On 'Van Halen,' I was a young punk, and everything revolved around the fastest kid in town, gunslinger attitude. But I'd say that at the time of 'Fair Warning,' I started concentrating more on songwriting. But I guess in most people's minds I'm just a gunslinger.
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It's a very strange experience being on set of 'Breaking Bad;' you never know what's coming next for your character. I feel like I don't even know if I'm going to live through the next scene I'm in. It's exciting to work on.
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Everybody has a Bill Murray story. He just punishes people for reasons they can't figure out.
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I do have to give it up for Sarah Palin on one account. She is brave.
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When I first got out of drama school, my original manager tried to get me to change my name because people were having trouble spelling it and saying it.
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I love that phrase that parents say to their children when they cry: 'I'll give you something to cry about.'
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Like all the new technologies that have arisen from scientific knowledge, biotechnology is a tool that can be used either for good or for evil purposes. The role of ethics is to strengthen the good and avoid the evil.
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When I was young I longed to write a great novel that should win me fame. Now that I am getting old my first book is written to amuse children.
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Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.
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I love the romance of the '40s. It was the perfect time to live. Technology wasn't so advanced that it made life more difficult, but it was just enough that you can send a phone call or a telegram. And people still took pride in how they looked. The men got dressed up and the women got dressed up and they took care of themselves.
