Betty Cuthbert Quotes
My parents always encouraged me and I had a good home life. We were always taught to respect things and other people. It's so different today, because children are just not taught the right way.
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I love the quality of TIDAL. I appreciate what they're trying to do and what they're trying to accomplish.
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When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.
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You don't have to become Mother Teresa to make an impact in the world. But nothing can be achieved if, at the very least, we are not talking about it.
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I feel like people who know me, my fans, I want them to know I'm just a regular 21-year-old kid who likes movies, who likes to have fun. It lets people see the other side of you and not just the basketball thing.
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At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
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I think chemistry and great acting go hand-in-hand.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
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I need this wild life, this freedom.
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
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Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.
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When I was a kid, there was always food to be had on the street in Jerusalem, but anything above a falafel stand was mediocre or worse.
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If it feels right and I'm not going against any energy in myself or the situation, there would be no limit.
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Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
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People, when they come up to me, are like, 'Did we go to high school together? Or did I make out with you at sleepaway camp?' And oftentimes, yes, that is the answer, because I went to a giant high school and made out with everybody.
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I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.
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Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
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I would say that I quite consciously rely on my obsessions in all my work, that I deliberately set up an obsessional frame of mind. In a paradoxical way, this leaves one free of the subject of the obsession.
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Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.
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I really think that in the media world that we live in now, especially for writers, it has to be a conversation. With very few exceptions, it can't be this one-way, 'Here I am on the mountaintop preaching to all of you great unwashed readers in hopes of saving you.' It doesn't work that way.
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The House of Commons is called the Lower House, in twenty Acts of Parliament; but what are twenty Acts of Parliament amongst Friends?
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History
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Love is not fashionable anymore; the poets have killed it.
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My parents always encouraged me and I had a good home life. We were always taught to respect things and other people. It's so different today, because children are just not taught the right way.
