Betty Smith Quotes
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I want to continue to be me and share with people.
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Fortune and love favor the brave.
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There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'
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Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.
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In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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All our wives are experimental psychologists.
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I've got quite a vivid imagination and I'm easily overwhelmed by sensations and things that are beautiful or scary. I don't think I've ever seen a ghost - I think I'm probably haunted by my own ghosts than real ones.
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My sister and I said, Dad, are you doing to do anything about that? And he mentioned treatments other people sent him that he'd been working on. So we thought it would be kind of cool to give these guys a real script.
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I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.
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Anyone who creates something new or does something different artistically is going to be singled out.
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The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances.
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As women, I think it helps that we are complex creatures by nature so just being a woman helps to understand a woman's journey.
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My first movie was totally improvised.
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You don't necessarily have to be religious to pray.
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Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.
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I don't date my girlfriend because she's a model. I date her because I love her.
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Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.
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I have gotten a number of invitations to be on television shows as 'the dad,' but that was Kryptonite to me. I was like, 'This would be the death of me. I'll be a cesspool of niceness.' It doesn't feed me.
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When the British-Malaysian photographer Ian Teh first worked in China, more than a decade ago, he rendered it as a nation of people in Technicolor.
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I've always wanted to design a home collection line because growing up, I was obsessed with reorganizing my room.
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If you smash a city when you're trying to capture it, you actually end up providing the perfect terrain for the defenders while blocking the access for your own armoured vehicles.
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A child forgets a time of hunger but never forgets the aching want of other things.
