Betty Smith Quotes
This could be a whole life," she thought. "You work eight hours a day covering wires to earn money to buy food and to pay for a place to sleep so that you can keep living to come back to cover more wires. Some people are born and kept living just to come to this.
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J. J. Abrams is a director that I've admired for a long time, from the very first scripts he wrote - including 'Regarding Henry,' which I was in.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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The only person I'd cry if I met would be Beyonce.
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My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'
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As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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However, as our brave men and women continue to return from the battlefields of the War on Terror, Congress must respond by enacting policies that meet the evolving needs of the veterans community.
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Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
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There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion.
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You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
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I'm a weekday warrior who takes our Georgia values to Washington, and on the weekends, I'm back home.
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The vast majority of Muslims living here are peaceful citizens. Unfortunately, however, we also see religious and political fanaticism among Muslim groups in Germany.
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My dad met my mom at Casper College in the orientation line. He studied business and eventually transferred to the University of Wyoming at Laramie.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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Disrespect is my biggest pet peeve.
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I've learnt that I've had the best results from just trying to be me, trying to make a movie or TV show I want to see or write a script I want to read, and that's really all I can offer - being authentic.
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I never force nothing in my game. I let everything come whenever it needed to come. That's the beauty of it.
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If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today.
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In this I-me society, my job is to get people to buy into something bigger than themselves.
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This could be a whole life," she thought. "You work eight hours a day covering wires to earn money to buy food and to pay for a place to sleep so that you can keep living to come back to cover more wires. Some people are born and kept living just to come to this.
