Betty Smith Quotes

She had had the pain; it had been like being boiled alive in scalding oil and not being able to die to get free of it

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• Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

  

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• If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorizing rather than being real. Maybe every other actor would think that was terrible, I don't know. But it seems to have worked for me, so far.

  

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• God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance.

  

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• Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.

  

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• Government can supply bread, but it can't mend a broken spirit.

  

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• I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others. In the 19th century it was symphonic music and the novel. For various technical and artistic reasons, film became that eloquent medium for the 20th century.

  

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• I'm more of a tough girl, and I'm attracted to things that reflect that in my perfumes. That means sandalwood, musk, amber, and vanilla notes.

  

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• Singing is my passion, my first love and the secret of my energy. Music to me is like finding my inner self, my soul. It gives me a great joy to see audiences enjoying with me. I have given my heart to singing. When I sing, I can feel romance in everything around me.

  

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• I'm antisocial - there's no question about it.

  

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• I am very happy and honored to be part of the Sony ATV family.

  

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• It's like with feminism. We talk a lot about feminism meaning complete freedom, and for some people, that means, like, 'Free the nipple!' But there's another end of the feminist spectrum, and that's where people like me are.

  

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• Just because you're a star on television doesn't mean that you can be a music phenomenon or an artist. You have to have the material to back it, and it's all about hit songs. I can name you every 'Idol' winner and why they didn't go on to have success - their songs. The ones who have - their songs.

  

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• I got the idea that to write books would be the best way to spend a life. I never thought of anything else that seemed like half as much fun, although in my next life I would like to be an architect, too, so I can have an easier time restoring houses.

  

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• I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. It's that simple!

  

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• People have to start realizing that money is just a fiction, an idea.

  

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• I just saw metal as another tool for me to use.

  

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• It's a feeling without a lid, of what you would do, physically, verbally, to protect the one thing that is your greatest love.

  

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• In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the U.S. has always been a quest for economic liberation which means to a certain extent that the rise of black middle class would be inevitable.

  

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• Pink cocktails look quite friendly. They have an umbrella in them, some sort of fruit... they look innocent, and boy, do they pack a punch.

  

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• I admire those women who really knew who they were and didn't apologize for it. Katharine Hepburn? She was ahead of her time.

  

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• You can drive.” When he raised an eyebrow, she said, "I've had enough contact with human males to realize you seem to have a congenital inability to function while a female is at the wheel, and I'd rather your full attention be on the case.

  

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• She had had the pain; it had been like being boiled alive in scalding oil and not being able to die to get free of it

  

  Betty Smith
  • She
  • Free
  • Die