Bethenny Frankel Quotes
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Reading allows me to recharge my batteries.
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You take the best of our tradition as a start, and I'll take the best of Christianity ... From there we can build.
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What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.
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I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.
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I don't get irrational about it, but I do have a deeply-rooted competitive spirit. Not necessarily towards other people, but towards any obstacle that I set for myself.
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I'm lucky to be getting a lot of good work in Tollywood. And I won't say I'm choosy, but of course, you have to select the best, and I'm trying to grab as many good films as I can. There was a time when I had to let go of some films which I regret now.
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I think I'm a pretty well-kept secret.
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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The music industry's very laid back while I'm very, very aggressive.
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With a warm drink, in a rocking chair and family and friends around, I am working on finding peace and joy in the moments we have been given. It doesn't have to all make sense. I don't have all the answers.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.
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The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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I write novels, mostly historical ones, and I try hard to keep them accurate as to historical facts, milieu and flavor.
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The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.
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Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around.
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When I was a kid, I wanted a Chanel bob and bangs. My mom said no. I went to the salon anyway, and they said, 'No way - we are not going to do that to your hair.' So I did it myself. Big mistake. Instead of my bangs going down straight, they were sticking up like a cat. It was horrible.
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I have a very 'theatre' face. I have what they call a wide mask. I probably would have been a big film star in the '20s with the silent films where they used a lot of key lighting, and make-up carved out your face.
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There are plenty of African-Americans in this country - and I would say this goes right up to the White House - who are not by any means poor, but are very much afflicted by white supremacy.
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I turn up in Los Angeles every now and then, so I can get some big money films in order to finance my smaller money films.
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I grew up in a very toxic home.