Betty Smith Quotes
I need someone. I need to hold somebody close. And I need more than this holding. I need someone to understand how I feel at a time like now. And the understanding must be part of the holding.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.
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When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.
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There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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The history of business has shown that companies usually only regulate themselves if they're forced to by legislation, or out of self-interest - often in the shape of a marketable message that will help sell more products.
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An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.
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Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
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I've done the Rolling Stones eating each other.
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I certainly never saw myself as posh.
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I have worked very hard to shed away my chocolate boy image in order to get a tough look for this action entertainer. I am confident of my success and would love to dedicate the same to Director Balachandar sir.
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Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.
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The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
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My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.
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According to a new survey, 40 percent of adults in Mexico say they would move to the United States if they got a chance. The number would have been higher, but the other 60 percent already live here.
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The world's culture is changing, adapting. People are keeping what's good in a culture, and sweeping out the rest.
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In 'John Henry Days,' I was taking my idea of junketeering and sort of blowing it up to absurd extremes.
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From the time that I can remember, I worked to make money - either baby-sitting, or one year wrapping gifts at a department store at Christmas, so I could have my own money.
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I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
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I need someone. I need to hold somebody close. And I need more than this holding. I need someone to understand how I feel at a time like now. And the understanding must be part of the holding.
