Betsy Hodges Quotes
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
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My mother is extremely interested in everything esoteric.
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I have a natural right to do whatever I want with my body... as long as it doesn't affect anybody else or any other property.
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Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.
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What is interesting about me isn't that I am a mother, it is who I am. I love my family, but if I just talk to you about being a mother, it's boring. I am sorry, but it's reducing who I really am, and it's really boring.
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I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.
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I hate negative ads in general.
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Remain close to government and away from politics. It means deal more with the authorities. And less with individuals.
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The good books stick around for a reason. There is a reason that we come back to them and they are so rewarding.
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Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.
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A big blockbuster like 'Kick' expands the audience for my films and makes it easier to promote them.
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I drifted into acting. My grandfather had a house in Buffalo in which there was a stage, and his friends met every two weeks or so to put on plays. So it was natural for me to put on plays, too, when I went to boarding school. I put on everything in the drama - I was indiscriminate. I put on Yeats and Shaw and Lady Gregory.
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In the winter I separate, in the summer I marry. It's been 15 years since I've been getting married every year.
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I think Stalin was afraid of Roosevelt. Whenever Roosevelt spoke, he sort of watched him with a certain awe. He was afraid of Roosevelt's influence in the world.
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This may surprise you, but I was arrested in high school.
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And being away and not performing for a long time and really connecting with my audience for a long time, I have a great responsibility to myself and to them to do it exactly the way the process was when I was young.
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I'm playing a very strong character, it's the story of the woman Polish Jews out of the Warsaw ghetto. I've just begun my weapons training and the SAS type training that's getting me fit.
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I go to the gym in the morning to warm up, and then I go to the mountain and train. Then I come home and go to the gym again to recover. But on travel days, you get pretty much no physical exertion.
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When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
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This morning when I put on my underwear I could hear the fruit-of-the-loom guys laughing at me.
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It's because of you when I'm in bed in the morning that I can wind my spring and tell myself I have to live another good day.
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What I found fascinating was just how quickly the best of the young Negro League players were drafted into the major leagues once Branch Rickey broke the color line by hiring Jackie Robinson. It was clear that all of the major league owners already knew the talents of the black ballplayers that they had refused to let into their league.
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I pray and meditate first thing in the morning.
