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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I don't date my girlfriend because she's a model. I date her because I love her.
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The demographic of young people... in each hand is a phone, more powerful than a computer. It's a doorway to the digital nation, to education.
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Before I was a mum, I could live in another dimension, create another world, and it wouldn't bother me if I was not totally available or totally myself. Today I cannot do that anymore.
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I'm lenient when it comes to nutrition rules. I enjoy cooking and baking in general, and I just try to eat whole, clean foods. I try to stay away from processed or boxed stuff - but that's not to say I don't eat that from time to time. I really like making Asian noodle salad and also make soup a lot, like tortilla soup.
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You can't turn a bad girl good, but once a good girls' gone bad, she's gone forever.
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I just remember celebrating my 18th birthday at home, so that was a big party.
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I'm at a slightly higher risk for type 2 diabetes, and my grandmother had diabetes. My hemoglobin a1c, which is one of the measures, started being a little high when I was drinking a ton of that coconut water.
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A child forgets a time of hunger but never forgets the aching want of other things.
