Betty Parsons Quotes
I married a man who was jealous about everything. If I got enthusiastic about a book, about a flower, about a place, about a human being - jealous. 'Don't do it! Stop.' It was depressing, and I couldn't take it.
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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It's a massive consumer frustration around the world about how long they have to wait after the U.S. to see television shows and movies. In the U.S., there's the frustration of having to wait a year to watch a movie in the format that you choose.
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When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month.
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As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.
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I've been watching 'The Cosby Show' and 'Roseanne' a lot right now, and those work so well because they're not, like, jokey comedies; they are coming from real characters. We want our show to be like that. A family show.
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I can paint in jail.
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Sometimes justice is at its most merciful when it's blind.
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The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
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I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.
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I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.
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In terms of the pilot, you have to introduce a lot of characters in a very short period of time, and you have to paint with slightly broad brush strokes because you just need to give an audience an idea of who these people might be.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
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Life is more important than 'what film I do next.'
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I'm going to always bleed the red, white, and blue. I represented the U.S. in the Olympics; I love my country. But the U.S. fans will love you on Monday; if you lose, they'll hate you on Tuesday. If you win, it will be back to loving you on Wednesday.
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Civilization runs a greater risk if we maintain our present attitude to religion than if we give it up.
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Money can't buy everything, but it can buy most of it. Because of money, I could give my parents a comfortable life.
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I've always disliked kamikazes, that is, people who commit suicide in order to kill others. Starting with the Japanese ones from World War II. I never considered them Pietro Miccas who torch the powder and go up with the citadel in order to block the arrival of the enemy troops at Torino. I never considered them soldiers.
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Don't ever let the other stuff get in the way of your inherent skills as a kick-butt storyteller. Move the reader, make them happy and sad and excited and scared. Make them stare into space after they've put the book down, thinking about the tale that's become a part of them.
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Make use of time, let not advantage slip; Beauty within itself should not be wasted: Fair flowers that are not gather'd in their prime Rot and consume themselves in little time.
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I married a man who was jealous about everything. If I got enthusiastic about a book, about a flower, about a place, about a human being - jealous. 'Don't do it! Stop.' It was depressing, and I couldn't take it.
