Betty Smith Quotes
She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did not suffer too much.
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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I definitely go with the flow because I feel like I have been so lucky, and so many things have happened to me that just never should have happened.
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Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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Of all the labels and tags and epithets people have forced upon me, there's one I don't dislike. I get called the 'enfant terrible.' In every article, it's always there. So I have to give that a meaning.
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The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
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My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.
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If you want to put out a million CDs and sell them and get them played on the radio, and even videos, or whatever, if that still exists, that kind of muscle can only come from a label like Columbia.
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Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.
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It's important to have masculine energy around your child.
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I've done tons of Debbie Allen musicals. I was a dancer in 'Glee,' and I was a Laker girl for three months.
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We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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It doesn't matter to me if I'm in love with my performance, so I watch all of my performances to understand and learn from them and figure out what's working and what's not. And I see the movies that I'm in in the theater a lot.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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The mass of workers, as yet non-Socialist, is retarded in its development towards Socialism.
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In all the broad Universe there is no other hope for Man than ourselves.
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Crime is a very hard genre to feminise. If you have a female protagonist she is going to be looking after her mum when she gets older; she is going to be worried about her brother and sister; she will be making a living while bringing up kids.
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There's a famous tension between Green Lantern and Green Arrow in the comic books. Those guys have always been friends. They started off as not on the same page, and then they quickly became best friends.
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Fight and push harder for what you believe in, you'd be surprised, you are much stronger than you think.
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The biggest opportunity in 2013 is in Africa. It has seven out of the ten fastest-growing economies in the world. In Nigeria alone there are 100 million people with mobile phones. In total, 300 million Africans - five times the population of Britain - are in the middle class.
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She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did not suffer too much.
