Betsy Beers Quotes

I record a podcast, 'Shondaland Revealed,' every week while we are shooting.

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• If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them.

  

  Samuel Hopkins
  • Free
  • Justice
  • Humanity

• I might do 'X Factor' next year. It's looking good that I won't get the sack at Christmas.

  

  Gary Barlow Take That
  • Good
  • Christmas
  • Looking

• As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.

  

  T. V. Carpio
  • Up
  • Trying
  • New

• I'm not really into alternative country - I'm into Patsy Cline, who lived down the street from where I lived, and old Dolly Parton records, Kitty Wells and that old stuff. I like country music. I also like Eric Church, who has a great new sound but also holds onto that old sound.

  

  Valerie June
  • Great
  • Music
  • Country

• My favourite smell on a man is Lynx and Marc Jacobs.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Man
  • Smell
  • Favourite

• I think 'Trial & Retribution' as a brand can go on forever. Its joy is that it has, to an extent, a formula, which gives a comfort routine for viewers. But we allow our directors total autarchy in putting their personalities on their stories.

  

  Victoria Smurfit
  • Think
  • Joy
  • Forever

• The divestment movement is a start at challenging the excesses of capitalism. It's working to delegitimize fossil fuels and showing that they're just as unethical as profits from the tobacco industry.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Start
  • Movement
  • Capitalism

• What's so funny about cats is that they have this kind of aloof, superior vibe to them. Even if you love them, they are unpredictable. Dogs are more social, and the way that they attach and bond to us is much more human.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Funny
  • Human
  • Superior

• I can't figure out how you can draft players for a coach that you know coaches a certain a style, and was successful doing that style, and get him to play a style that you feel comfortable with.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Know
  • Style
  • Successful

• What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Small
  • Party
  • Woman

• I'm not an easygoing guy as a director.

  

  Ted Kotcheff
  • Guy
  • Director
  • Easygoing

• Fascist movements kill off their critics, literally or metaphorically, while democratic movements value, invite and even welcome criticism.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Value
  • Criticism
  • Welcome

• It's what every writer needs: a daybed.

  

  Vince Flynn
  • Needs
  • Writer
  • Every

• All of a sudden to get all of this attention, and to be away from home and working all the time was hard. I was on planes all the time. I didn't see my friends. I cried a lot. It was quite terrifying.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Time
  • Home
  • Friends

• I don't know if I'm a daredevil, exactly, but I do enjoy a good challenge. It's the only way you grow.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Good
  • Challenge
  • Enjoy

• There are artists or filmmakers or cinematographers who have had long careers who, maybe to reinvent themselves or just to stay in a secure place, layer it on or ham it up, if I can use that expression, or make grand choices that don't feel as authentic as what they did to make us fall in love with them in the first place.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Up
  • Long
  • Love

• The one thing that's broken inside of me is that I've lost the signal most people have to feel hungry or feel full.

  

  Takeru Kobayashi
  • People
  • Me
  • Lost

• Look, we're all saddled with things that make us better or worse. This world is a crazy place, and I've chosen to make my work about that insanity.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • World
  • Work
  • Crazy

• Once you do embark upon the separation or divorce process, it is very important to remember three key things: Be kind, be reasonable, be brief. Remember that this person will no longer be your spouse, but he or she will continue to be your co-parent, family member, and perhaps business partner in certain assets or entities.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Important
  • Family
  • She

• It solved a real world problem: The killer idea was to make email available on the web

  

  Sabeer Bhatia
  • Idea
  • Available
  • E-mail

• Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • God
  • Man
  • Present

• Like dancers with choreography or actors with scripts, jazz singers could take material that was known, even loved, then risk interpreting and revising it. They could conceal even as they revealed themselves. Inflection, timing and tonality were their language, at least as much as words.

  

  Margo Jefferson
  • Words
  • Risk

• Farewell," they cried, "Wherever you fare till your eyries receive you at the journey's end!" That is the polite thing to say among eagles. "May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks," answered Gandalf, who knew the correct reply.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Journey
  • Wings
  • Receive

• I record a podcast, 'Shondaland Revealed,' every week while we are shooting.

  

  Betsy Beers