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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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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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'm a painter, really. To be successful, you have to go to Hollywood, and I didn't like to travel.
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As we all know, there is inner beauty and outer beauty. If we examine inner beauty, to me there is nothing more beautiful than inner peace, in a man or a woman.
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The response from the beginning has been really, really wonderful and positive. People have always really responded to me talking about mental health.
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The brave man is not he who feels no fear,For that were stupid and irrational;But he, whose noble soul its fear subdues,And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.
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It takes a lot of doing to die.
