Betty Cuthbert Quotes
My salvation was a free gift. I didn't have to work for it and it's better than any gold medal that I've ever won.
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You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
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I think I'd say that my whole body of work is a reflection of who I am, but not any one specific thing.
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Usually when you're working is when people want you to work. They don't want you as much when you're not working. That's the frustrating nature of our business.
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I found that I need to work, and I wouldn't have known that if I hadn't taken the time off.
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In the 1970s and 1980s, I got to do some great work. The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work.
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What works for me is knowing the character in an emotional sense. I wish I was more logical but it doesn't work for me like that. I need quite a lot of time; it's why I always worry when I'm doing more than one thing at a time. I hope that some sort of magic will kick in.
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But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nation's history.
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The rivalry between the Montague and the Capulet kids seems very modern to me. Juliet is a free spirit, full of untapped love and passion. I think a lot of girls can relate to her. And it's very relevant in terms of kids defying their parents.
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Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
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I want to work with different people, and I would like to work in different places.
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I work in the film business, where schmoozing is an art form, lunch hour lasts from 12:30 until 3, and every meeting takes an hour whether there's an hour's worth of business or not.
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All writers, in all viewpoints, must choose which information and scenes will be presented, and in which order. In that sense, the author is always represented as a point of view in a work of fiction. His hand can always be detected by the discerning.
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The Marine Corps is some of the best acting training you could have. Having that responsibility for people's lives, suddenly time becomes a really valuable commodity and you want to make the most of it. And for acting, you just have to do the work, just keep doing it.
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I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.
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I wanted to work with Bryan Singer because I like his films.
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I'm quite adept at writing two or sometimes even three stories at once. So if I get stuck on one story, I switch the next and let my subconscious work on unraveling any plot problems from another story.
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There's not a day that I don't work on vocals, have vocal coaches, go to acting classes, read books.
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I've got a clear line between work and real life.
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It is not only one person's work, it's really a partnership and collaboration during all these years.
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There's something very... spiritual about fighting. It's physically very challenging. It's for killing people, after all, so it's taught me how to look at something head on. It's like living - confronting something. Everything for me came from films.
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I've made up little mantras for myself, catchphrases from a screenwriting book that doesn't exist. One is 'Write the movie you'd pay to go see.' Another is 'Never let a character tell me something that the camera can show me.'
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Not louder shrieks to pitying heav'n are cast, When husbands, or when lapdogs, breathe their last.
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I think I'm actually in denial that I'm famous, it only sinks in when people crowd in the streets. My friends treat me like a regular person, which is what I wanted.
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My salvation was a free gift. I didn't have to work for it and it's better than any gold medal that I've ever won.
