Betty Smith Quotes
From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood.
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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The most significant barrier to female leadership is the actual lack of females in leadership. The best advice I can give to women is to go out and start something, ideally their own businesses. If you can't see a path for leadership within your own company, go blaze a trail of your own.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.
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The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.
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I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think is inappropriate in many ways, but it's their choice.
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I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.
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Every different director has another language - for instance, Hitchcock does not like any bright color ever, unless the story says 'there goes the girl in a red dress.'
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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I think the most expensive thing I've bought thus far is my Rolex.
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I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.
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My father had very little formal education.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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In its truest manifestation, where it gives judgments, poetry is super-luxury. It would be interesting to see what would happen to a High Court judge if he were forced to follow the true poetic formula, doing the job for love, being forced into pubs for relief.
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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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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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A friend is someone who knows you and loves you for what you were and who you are, and who also shares your hopes and dreams for who you can become.
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From the first time someone says, Who do you think you are? we learn how to repress.
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When things are scary, or there's a struggle, I always think, 'How is this going to sound in my biography?' Sometimes I would just be living on protein shakes or the cheapest food that I could afford because I didn't have a lot of money.
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Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world.
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Why are we born? We are born so that we will not have to be born again.
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From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood.
