Betty Smith Quotes
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I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.
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I have one of these bodies. When I was younger, I could never put weight on, and now that I'm a little older, there's a natural sort of chubbiness coming. But honestly, if I work out for a week, it drops off in no time.
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The problem is not getting rid of fear, but using it properly.
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Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
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It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human.
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I'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow.
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To be seen and to be respected for my work and acknowledged as a true American Latina... means a lot to me.
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There are things that bother me. I try not to let them, but they do.
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I have a whole area in my closet for displaying shoes. They are in rows. But nobody comes in my closet, so they are only on display for me. It's pretty spectacular.
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I think what we've been able to do with 'Longmire' is balance this procedural with a bit of a soap opera, and it's a character study of this character, Walt Longmire, and the people around him.
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There's nothing that can replace quality programs in a non-profit.
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When I was 18, I left Dublin and moved to Paris. I didn't speak French. I didn't know anyone. I felt like a fish out of water.
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Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.
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Eating together is the most intimate form of kinship. By scripting a work where we share the same kind of food with fish, I'm scripting our interrelationship with them.
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I don't necessarily need Hollywood.
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Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.
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But working with Dre, I grew up with his music, so I'm still like more a fan.
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I've always really been into science, and in the last five years I've gotten into theoretical physics and the origins of the universe.
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I was the first candidate to announce my run on Instagram. So that was kind of cool.
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In my head, I think I'd make a perfect spy, but in reality, I don't think I'd fare very well.
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We must end the iniquitous multi-taxing of the same money. It is not right to tax people's incomes, then their savings on that income, to tax the movement of assets through capital gains tax, stamp duty and tax them again through inheritance tax if they have the audacity to die.
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The average commercial radio listener in America is not looking for lofty, intellectual subjects. This isn't brain surgery. It's about striking the passion of the people.
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Wits, like drunken men with swords, are apt to draw their steel upon their best acquaintances.
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It takes a lot of doing to die.
