Betty Smith Quotes
There had to be dark and muddy waters so that the sun could have something to background it's flashing glory.
 
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	When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.   
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	I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat.   
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	As a young man, I think I was in a bit of the revenge business for too many years of my life.   
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	Unlike the objective of far too many companies, manufacturing is not about a quick 'exit.' It is centered on long-term value creation.   
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	Getting to perform at the Carlyle, following in the footsteps of women like Elaine Stritch, Barbara Cook, Christine Ebersole, Kelli O'Hara, and so many others, is nothing short of a dream come true.   
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	German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.   
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	As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.   
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	Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.   
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	My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.   
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	I don't want to do anything like Can't Hardly Wait, I don't want to do anything like Scream. I saw all those movies, and they were good, but they're just not what I want to do.   
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	I had gone full-on folkie; I'd had it with bands.   
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	I never, never thought one day I will sing at La Scala or I will get the Grammy. I'm lucky. I work a lot with a teacher, with my coach.   
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	With modeling, you are the client and you give them what they want... with music, it is all about you, people are buying into you as a person.   
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	I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.   
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	I got lost but look what I found.   
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	Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.   
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	A democratically elected congressman of the United States of America should not be talking of an ethnic divide in Afghanistan, should not be interfering in Afghanistan's internal affairs.   
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	We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.   
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	Like an army defeated The snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare hill; The Ploughboy is whooping — anon — anon! There's joy in the mountains: There's life in the fountains; Small clouds are sailing, Blue sky prevailing; The rain is over and gone.   
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	The most notable thing about Time is that it is so purely relative. A large amount of reminiscence is, by common consent, conceded to the drowning man; and it is not past belief that one may review an entire courtship while removing one's gloves.   
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	I take, like, 500 selfies to get one I like.   
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	India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.   
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	I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.   
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	There had to be dark and muddy waters so that the sun could have something to background it's flashing glory.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					