Betty Smith Quotes
She had heard Papa sing so many songs about the heart; the heart that was breaking - was aching - was dancing -was heavy laden - that leaped for joy - that was heavy in sorrow - that turned over - that stood still. She really believed the heart actually did those things.
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I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.
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All I can start with is what moves me and feels like a great challenge as an actor and I think is saying something unusual or irreverent or human - honest in some way.
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More modern poetry is written than read.
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The realities are, there are - you can be entertaining and you can be fun, and you can say things that actually appeal to people. You still have to figure out a way to get to 270 electoral votes. Get votes in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina.
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Just because you used one set on one guy and had success doesn't mean you can use that exact set, that exact timing, the next time.
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I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.
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Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical.
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Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.
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America's fine, nice, nice hiking near L.A. But I am European. I love London and Paris. Friends and intellect, big thought, why not?
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This is my first wuxia movie and I must consider this before trying to make something with my own.
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It's important to have masculine energy around your child.
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
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I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York Times, you got a pretty sorry existence.
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Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.
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I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.
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My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
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The constitution is itself the product of the freedom struggle.
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At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
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Have you ever been lonely? No, neither have I. Solitary, yes. Alone, certainly. But lonely means minding about being on your own. I've never minded about it.
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I made the first Moebius strip without knowing what it was.
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The last time I was in a gym, Dukakis was running for president.
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It's beauty that captures your attention. Personality which captures your heart.
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She had heard Papa sing so many songs about the heart; the heart that was breaking - was aching - was dancing -was heavy laden - that leaped for joy - that was heavy in sorrow - that turned over - that stood still. She really believed the heart actually did those things.
