Betsy Hodges Quotes
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I don't want to be polite. I don't think campaigning is polite. That's a disingenuous effort.
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My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, are fun, and that's the way I'd like to convey them myself.
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I think of myself as a journeyman actor. I've got some talent and I work hard, but people like Brando or Pacino - those people are touched by God.
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My great fear of being attacked or trivialized by my contemporaries made me concentrate on what I was trying to do as a writer. It forced me to draw some conclusions that were my own.
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I started at the age of 8 and have been lucky to be still working.
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It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
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That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.
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I myself feel that I'm a well-rounded player and got a lot better defensively and without the puck as time has gone on.
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We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.
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To anybody who says to me, 'I'm in character,' I say, 'You should be in an asylum.' If you don't know that you're pretending, then you should really seek medical help. I don't have patience for that stuff.
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If my daughter has a bad dream and wants to get into my bed, I'm a sucker for her sweet face and warm body next to mine, so I let her jump in. I should tell her to go to bed, but secretly I love it.
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You have to love your body, respect it, and treat it well.
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There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.
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Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
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Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
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You learn to be comfortable with your body. It's fine and not a big deal.
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My childhood was great, honestly. I have all these incredible memories of my childhood. I was an only child. I always had all my cousins around. I had my grandparents around. I had my parents around. I had my uncles around - whatever.
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Pretty much, the writer's in charge in theater. Of course you're in charge with the director, but no one can change your words. People can give you notes, but you don't have to take them. In Hollywood you take them and you cash your check and that's your job. It's very different.
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I have always wanted to make a film about my parents' generation, which tried every way to escape from the deadly shadow of war and finally settled down in Hong Kong in the '50s to build a home from nothing. Arguably, they are the first generation of Hong Kong people to turn this remote island into a modern city.
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I'd love to work with Sufjan Stevens. He so gets it. He's amazing.
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We shouldn't use our own upset as an excuse for not helping.
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The minimum wage law very cleverly is misnamed. The real minimum wage is zero. That is what many inexperienced and low skilled people receive as a result of legislation that makes it illegal to pay them what they are currently worth to an employer.
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Since I'm a Minnesotan, that bragging thing is a little hard.
