Betty Smith Quotes
I came to a clear conclusion, and it is a universal one: To live, to struggle, to be in love with life--in love with all life holds, joyful or sorrowful--is fulfillment. The fullness of life is open to all of us.
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In my opinion - in Georgia, there's a town called Lula. And Lula, Georgia, has the best peaches.
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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When I was 15 years old, I read an article about Ivan Boesky, the well-known takeover trader - turned out years later it was all on inside information! But before that came to light, he was very successful, very flamboyant. And I thought, 'This is what I want to do.' So I'm 15 years old, I decide I'm going to Wall Street.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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I was hired because I am Zsa Zsa Gabor, but when I go to work, directors try to force their methods on me. John Huston's intense, precise directions tortured me.
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The Old Firm clubs are not easy clubs to manage and sometimes I think frustration comes in that, in the end, make you happy to be leaving.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.
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And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.
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I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
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I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
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The only times I'm not relaxed are when I haven't got a project on the go.
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What really matters is who you are when you step on the field, and I will let my bat and my glove speak for themselves.
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The key is a good story. If you have a good story, you have enough emotional beats that you can hit.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them.
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I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.
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It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
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I like working. But now I have a deal with my wife that I take a half-day off each week.
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I have been a fan all my life, but now I have been out of football for over 10 years, and out of baseball for a little over six years and I don't go to games.
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To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that the past is responsible for the illness.
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Why do we make so much of knowledge, struggle so hard to get some little skill not worth the effort?
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I came to a clear conclusion, and it is a universal one: To live, to struggle, to be in love with life--in love with all life holds, joyful or sorrowful--is fulfillment. The fullness of life is open to all of us.
