Betty Buckley Quotes
Everything good that I know was taught to me by great teachers and I feel like giving back and sharing the technique is the thing to do.
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We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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I have no regrets at all. I have done quite well for myself. I didn't have a conventional face, but I have done well, and I am proud of it.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
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Prop 8 did something that no other state in the history of this country has done. It took away the rights of people that already were legally affirmed. Imagine someone putting something on the ballot saying your wedding, your marriage is no longer valid.
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I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.
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Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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Well I think that what we're seeing now is that the people feel like they, the people in Congress don't have their consent to govern them. They keep doing things that are incredibly unpopular. And so when that happens, folks get angry.
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In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.
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When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.
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So somebody told me that if I wasn't a coffee drinker yet, by the end of college I'd have to be, because a math major is so tough I would have to stay up very late. I was going to need coffee to do that. Well, merely because they said that, I never drank coffee in college, never got addicted to it, never needed it.
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I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.
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My choice was to ruin my son's life by giving him money or giving 90-plus percent to charity. Not much of a choice.
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To tell you the truth, I don't really follow what men wear. Men's fashion is much simpler than women's. It doesn't change as much.
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The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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Nothing is stopping me from doing what I love to do.
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Nearly all the great improvements, discoveries, inventions, and achievements which have elevated and blessed humanity have been the triumphs of enthusiasm.
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Brainstorming, for me, takes place in my bed at night between the time I turn out my lights and I finally fall asleep. It is not a very violent storm, but what's happening is I am just thinking about different ideas and maybe things I've seen that day that I think might make a good story.
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Fame means absolutely nothing except a good table at a restaurant.
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I'm not Carl Lewis the athlete any more. I'm growing into a new person with new interests and new goals.
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Everything good that I know was taught to me by great teachers and I feel like giving back and sharing the technique is the thing to do.
