Betsey Johnson Quotes
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Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything.
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Right now, I'm not really thinking about marriage.
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I didn't want to give up my Illinois driver's license and was unaware that was a crime. It is, by the way, in the state of California. Lesson learned. I technically broke a law, so technically I deserve whatever I get.
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I like to fight, and I think the fans want to see a good fight, too.
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Fundamentally, I do agree, certainly, people must be allowed to express their own opinions freely. Freedom is part of the essential rights of all nations.
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I think sometimes if you are too interested in day-to-day politics, you lose sight of the long term.
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The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
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I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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I want to lay all my cards out on the table and walk away with no regrets.
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When people are like, 'What do you think of this vampire craze?' - well, I don't really feel like it ever ended, personally, 'cause I've always been into them, like 'Underworld.'
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Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
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I think being called a cat lady is a compliment. It means you have adopted a tiny little maniac into your life.
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed.
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At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave,' you were a racist. You have to be very careful about what you say. I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn't share, but it's not like I'm a fascist or a racist. There's nothing like that in my history.
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What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
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If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.
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There was a time in the marriage when I could no longer look at myself in a mirror, couldn't feel I was a nice person. A bad relationship can do that, can make you doubt everything good you ever felt about yourself.
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I think that when you're writing plays, and I think it's also true with novels, it helps to have an ear for the music of language, for what we call poetry, for the sound effects and the way that the sound can produce sensual feeling at odds with or consonant with the content of the work. Your work is also gorgeous writing. It's very unfortunate when you open a novel that everybody's loving and it's just, you know, an excruciatingly bad sentence.
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Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
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It's not easy to date when you're hefty. Besides I like feeling thin because it makes me feel amorous.
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The implication that depressed people are fundamentally irresponsible is a deeply damaging and counterproductive one. Winston Churchill was a depressive. He didn't just fly planes; he was in charge of the Royal Air Force.
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I'm not the type of person who dwells too much on bad things.
