Betty Wright (Bessie Regina Norris) Quotes
I don't feel like I need to tell any lies. You get to an age where you get tired of hiding behind whatever people think is correct. You just say what you have to say, and if they don't like it, it's OK.
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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At times, it seems as if the only women effortlessly balancing their jobs, kids, husbands and homes are the ones on TV.
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I love Bridget Fonda.
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Common Core results finally give families an accurate barometer of whether our kids are mastering the skills they need to succeed in a knowledge-based global economy, early enough that we can intervene.
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You have to find a way - and thankfully for me, it's been music - to separate yourself from the racial identity. It's not easy, and I continue to work, God bless, and I'm really, truly appreciative of it.
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My label in Toronto was 'Stand Pat' and I think that was a fair assessment. I tried to be patient, but if a trade came along - big or small - that I thought should be made, I would make it.
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If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
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I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.
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I am neither going to Bollywood nor joining politics.
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The reason I was able to grow my business was that every day, after producing 30 minutes of wine television, I spent 15 hours a day replying to every single person's e-mail and every single person's Twitter @ reply.
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It's a wild thing, that people have the ability to help each other by just relating to one another.
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Alanis Morissette - I love how she's not afraid to say what she wants to say. Love it or hate it, she's going to say it. And her vocals are crazy; they're amazing, and I also love how her music is really organic.
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I'll get up at 5 or 6. I try to catch up on sleep on the weekends, so I'll try to get seven hours of sleep. During the week, my ideal is to go to bed at 9 and wake up six hours later.
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Nancy Lopez has always been a role model of mine... so to have the opportunity to play for her and spend time with her has been amazing.
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In 1930, I was at the top of my career. I won the Most Valuable Player award.
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I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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Actors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place.
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For commercial customers, we have invested in specialist mobile-first sales capabilities, and we are building out our device-selling channel.
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California is a fine place to live - if you happen to be an orange.
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My parents met because my father was an actor friend of one of my mom's brothers, but my mother has never set foot on the stage - she's quite shy. So it's a strange thing because people say, 'Oh, coming from acting parents,' when the idea of acting would literally make my mother just want to throw up.
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I think 'Beasts of No Nation' is a novel that hopefully will affect each person who reads it in a different way.
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I don't feel like I need to tell any lies. You get to an age where you get tired of hiding behind whatever people think is correct. You just say what you have to say, and if they don't like it, it's OK.
