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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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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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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You know, I'm fairly intelligent, but I don't think my grades reflected that.
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Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.
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You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.
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I go through my comments sometimes, and I'll just take snapshots of the terrible ones and send them to my friends. I know it's horrible, but they actually make me laugh. They make my day.
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You can't do progressive government from the inside. You have to rally those outsiders and make them a force.
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Life is suffering. Life is not resistance to suffering. The point of life is to suffer. This is why we're here: We're here to suffer. I believe in a higher power that compassionately allows suffering for us as a race, to grow and mature.
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A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.
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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.
