Betsy Beers Quotes
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I knew that for this movie to work it had to be very hot and very real, and it wasn't going to be a case of doing it Hollywood all covered with a nice little sheet.
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You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.
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No one knows what the top-performing asset class will be next year. Lacking this prescience, your next-best solution is to own all of the classes and rebalance regularly.
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I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.
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I just think Australia tends to make very good movies, so if someone hands me an Australian or an American film script I would guess the Australian film would be more intriguing.
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I'd be more likely to go for somebody who is like me. Well, I like creative people, so whatever that means... Yeah, authentic and creative.
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It's a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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I know the consequences of my decisions. I've said no to the biggest of brands. So when I say no to something, I know how much business I will lose out on.
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Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.
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I'm going to always rise above the doubt that may exist about me.
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The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.
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What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.
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I think it's good to have pressure on yourself. The worst crime is to get kind of really complacent.
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My parents gave me a boxer puppy as a present. I have wanted a dog for years and must first give her attention in the morning.
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All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.
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Believe me, the drug of freedom is universally potent.
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You just have to be very humble if America has really worked for you like it has for me. Most of my friends are poor. Most of my siblings are poor. I see how hard it is just to get money unless you've got some incredible luck or work incredibly hard. I want everyone to do well. I wish 'Wayne's World' money on you!
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Being an actor gives you a chance to play all kinds of roles, very moving and dramatic on one project, silly and girlish on another. That's the most interesting thing out this business, you get to keep reinventing yourself.
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Some of those early roles were unactable. Even Laurence Olivier couldn't have done anything with them. The dialog ran to cardboard passages such as, 'I love you. You can rely on me, darling. I'll wait.' It was all I could do to keep from adding, 'With egg on my face.'
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Thy necessity is yet greater than mine
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But you are making assumptions without all the facts, and that's not a sign of intelligence.
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It's fun to slap people around.
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I swear like a trucker when I'm excited.
