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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People who hold a low view of themselves [will credit] their achievements to external factors, rather than to their own capabilities.
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I want to be an improviser, and I've worked very hard at that. It's an art. You don't just play whatever comes into your head; you have to be very deliberate about what you do.
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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
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Joy is at its keenest when contrasted with sorrow, courage at its height when it follows fear, faith at its noblest when it grows from doubt.
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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.
