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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I'm actually introverted and shy.
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Yeah, I really like being alive. But I definitely don't have any intentions as an artist.
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It's terrifying the way molecular biology has become more and more jargon ridden. But I strongly believe that my book can be read by the intelligent layman. I want everyone who bought a copy of 'A Brief History of Time' to buy a copy of 'Genome'.
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My cousin was Ron O'Neal, who was 'Superfly.' Films like 'Shaft' and 'Superfly' were the biggest things out there in the early '70s. It's hard to remember just how big they were - how much impact they had on the culture, the music, the fashions, the hair styles.
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Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I stick with it.
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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.
