Betty Wright (Bessie Regina Norris) Quotes

I'm lyric conscious. I like to tell stories, give advice. Instead of writing a 'Dear Abby' column, I do it on records.

Betty Wright

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• A lot of times, when mother-son or mother-daughter relationships have been put on screen, they tend to trickle towards ugly, and I don't find that totally realistic for the wide swath of us, and it's also not that fun to watch.

  

  Dan Fogelman
  • Fun
  • Mother
  • Son

• Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • World
  • Explore
  • Still

• Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Day
  • Democracy
  • Everyday

• I love a real-life, movie moment in living color.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Life
  • Real
  • Movie

• Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Knowledge

• Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Up
  • Forget
  • Healthy

• It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Why
  • Funny
  • Hate

• The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Age
  • Reason
  • Poetry

• Your barber always knows everything that goes on in the town, doesn't he?

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Always
  • Everything
  • Barber

• There are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists can't. They can pave the way to radio and pay big bucks for promotion.

  

  Sam Tsui
  • Way
  • Radio
  • Promotion

• I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.

  

  Oliver Hudson
  • Great
  • Think
  • Want

• The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Sometimes
  • Spring
  • Prison

• I don't see myself as a diva at all.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Myself
  • See
  • Diva

• To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • True
  • Happy
  • Pain

• Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Falling

• I think that's like the age-old psychological core issue for any situation. Anybody who has had an experience with a parent that is absent, it's going to manifest.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Experience
  • Think
  • Age

• I am convinced that only by applying the values of an entrepreneur to philanthropy will you ever be able to meet the needs of the greatest number of people.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Needs
  • Values

• There is a profound difference between information and meaning.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Information
  • Profound
  • Meaning

• Writing 'Deadpool' can be a lot of fun. When I first started working with the character, I wasn't sure I'd like him. I quickly realized, though, that a writer can do pretty much anything with him - comedic stories, serious stories, completely nonsensical stories.

  

  Cullen Bunn
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Fun

• My advice to women in general: Even if you're doing a nine-to-five job, treat yourself like a boss. Not arrogant, but be sure of what you want - and don't allow people to run anything for you without your knowledge.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • People
  • Women
  • Job

• It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Important
  • Motivational
  • Decisions

• One of the things I did in my book, I start off with, is explaining how great our grace was: the things we were able to accomplish after the first one-hundred years from slavery.

  

  Burgess Owens
  • Great
  • Book
  • Slavery

• In a city that worships the new and the sleek, the street market at Da Jing Road is willfully out of step. It is a splendid jumble of centuries, full of sizzling pot stickers and bleating cell phones, pungent rice wine and bullfrogs as plump as softballs.

  

  Evan Osnos
  • Wine
  • Step
  • Phones

• I'm lyric conscious. I like to tell stories, give advice. Instead of writing a 'Dear Abby' column, I do it on records.

  

  Betty Wright
  • Writing
  • Advice
  • Lyric