Betsy Hodges Quotes
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I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.
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When you get older, two things happen to you. You begin to lose your hearing, and I forget what the other one is.
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I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.
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It makes sense to have cameras in places where terrorism and crime are of particular concern - such as in Times Square or near major bridges and tunnels. It would be more troubling to learn, however, that the government has focused cameras on the front doors of our homes just to keep track of our comings and goings.
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That's when I feel really excited about a painting. When it starts to feel real, when it feels like it has a personality.
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I was under the false impression that I could sing in high school, so I did a lot of musical stuff. I can't sing or dance, so that was entertaining for everyone.
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Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough.
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There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.
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Life may not always fall into neat chapters, and you may not always get the satisfying ending you're looking for, but sometimes a good explanation is all the rewrite you need.
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If you're a designer, there's got to be some films that you've seen that have inspired you creatively. There's no escaping that.
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I think you always have to go as an artist with instinct, I really do.
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I really had no great love for shoes. I was a working First Lady; I was always in canvas shoes. I did nurture the shoes industry of the Philippines, and so every time there was a shoe fair, I would receive a pair of shoes as a token of gratitude.
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I feel really proud of my work on 'Sullivan & Son.' It's a really different character for me. I was excited to play this really tough, sweet smart, quirky girl because that's who I am at my core, but that's never who I was playing. The show is like my pride and joy.
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Superheroes don't often get their powers in one fell swoop. It's like superhero puberty.
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To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
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'Blade' was amazing; I can't imagine the character without Wesley Snipes. He just made a long, black leather trench coat look so cool.
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'Navigation on this lake is forbidden to aliens,' he declared. 'We are ordered to sink all intruding vessels. Prepare to drown.'
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Clearly, many branches of science need an exquisite precision of timekeeping and the infinitesimal decimals of calibration, so space launches, for example, are not scheduled for leap-second dates. But society as a whole neither needs that obsessive time measurement nor is well served by it.
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It's great to know that young black girls are seeing themselves on TV as leading ladies, and I'm part of that. It's just such an honor.
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Starting out as young women, we didn't care that people thought that we were a fad or if people thought we didn't dress girly enough - we were just like, 'Whatever.' We were able to accomplish that with three totally different girls, in a group.
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I think our cities' deteriorating infrastructure is a silent crisis.
