Betsy Byars Quotes
My husband has some very interesting hobbies, and through him, I've learned to fly and earned my pilot's license. Together, we fly all over the United States. Since our children are all grown now, we also travel a great deal in Europe, but we take commercial flights because our plane is not really equipped to make transatlantic flights.
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.
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Either you are extrovert or introvert, and so I am an introvert in that sense. I'm not a social person that wants to go to parties.
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I won't be in gay parades - I don't think they need them. I believe in class - I believe that people should have a bit of class about them.
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President Trump is right to welcome China's help in bringing North Korea's illicit nuclear program to heal, but he's also correct that if China doesn't go along, the U.S. can act alone.
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I was a curious child. I'd debate with anyone who came to the door - people from the Islamic community... Jehovah's Witnesses... anyone.
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I like making sci-fi movies because I like watching sci-fi movies. I like watching horror. I like being in a horror movie. I'm a fan. My perspective's a little different just because I get to participate as well as spectate.
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We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.
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Writing is the supreme solace.
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Money is a kind of poetry.
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U.K. citizens fleeing the Middle East and Japan have been allowed to take their animal companions with them on evacuation flights. The U.S. is not so civilized, and that's a blot on our national copybook.
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I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.
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You just have to take these opportunities when they come along. They're not that frequent; you'll get a really good script, oh, maybe once a year if you're lucky.
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In the '90s, I wouldn't have been a supermodel.
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There are many types of silence. There is a silence before the note, there is a silence at the end and there is a silence in the middle.
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You don't live on the Earth you want, you live on the Earth you have.
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I soon discovered, after I became chairman of the NEH, that, for a number of academics, the truth was not merely irrelevant - it no longer existed.
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There's not one major greatest influence on my career. It would be film and great artists and great imagineers - Jim Henson, Walt Disney, Charlie Chaplin, people who understand the joy of the imagination.
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Some of the things we do are great, but they often have these iterations that are not great. We screw up sometimes. We get rejected.
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My husband has some very interesting hobbies, and through him, I've learned to fly and earned my pilot's license. Together, we fly all over the United States. Since our children are all grown now, we also travel a great deal in Europe, but we take commercial flights because our plane is not really equipped to make transatlantic flights.
