Betty Field Quotes
I just want to do as many utterly different parts as I can get. Variety teaches you to act, and it keeps you fresh in your approach.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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I definitely go with the flow because I feel like I have been so lucky, and so many things have happened to me that just never should have happened.
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I think that it's important for every single person, no matter what they do in life, to participate in the well-being of humanity and the planet. Don't let a year go by knowing you didn't make an effort to do something - no matter how small - outside your own problems and drama.
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My father's music has always inspired me in many ways... especially to be better at what I do.
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I always said there's no way I'd work in America because I'm too weird and I'm too old, but somehow it's happened.
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I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.
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Because the show is popular, people do recognize us on the streets.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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I've already lived one full life, and so now I'm about to endeavor to see what else the good Lord has in store for me, and I'm wide open.
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I like to act with people that know what they're doing.
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
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I was described as a dreamer, a fantasist, even as the village idiot. I didn't care. What I cared about was convincing people to allow me to go on with my work.
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As the numbers of native-born Europeans begin to fall, with their anemic fertility rates, will the aging Europeans become more magnanimous toward destitute newcomers who do not speak the national language or assimilate into the national culture but consume its benefits?
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I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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As the daughter of a 25-year veteran of the armed forces, I am incredibly thankful for the sacrifices our women and men have made in Iraq, and continue to make in Afghanistan.
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He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.
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Though there is such a rich tradition of culture and arts, I have never been invited to perform at a concert in South India.
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I wanted to go to New York and be a stage actress, doing things like Chekhov. None of that happened, and then I went to L.A. and an agent said, 'I think you belong in commercials and TV.' So I did that and got some opportunities that I absolutely love.
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Nicias, do you think you can erase with good deeds the wrongs you committed against your mother? What good deed will ever reach her? Her soul is a scorching noon time, without a single breath of a breeze, nothing moves, nothing changes, nothing lives there; a great emaciated sun, an immobile sun eternally consumes her.
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We live in a society that celebrates familial connection above any other kind of relationship. We are shown photos of our great-grandparents and encouraged to marvel over facial similarities. We are told to take pride in our bloodlines, celebrate our ancestry.
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The clothes are different: pre-dog, I used to be very finicky and self-conscious about how I looked; now I schlep around in the worst clothing - big heavy boots, baggy old sweaters, a hooded down parka from L.L. Bean that makes me look like an astronaut.
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Maybe I'd be in a different place in my career if I'd had that 10-year plan, a lot of people went at it with this voracity that I never had. My only voracity was to have fun and to be in the mix.
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I just want to do as many utterly different parts as I can get. Variety teaches you to act, and it keeps you fresh in your approach.
