Betty Wright (Bessie Regina Norris) Quotes
You get to an age where you get tired of hiding behind whatever people think is correct.
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I've never been one to run from a challenge.
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It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.
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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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Whatever people thought the first time they held a portable phone the size of a shoe in their hands, it was nothing like where we are now, accustomed to having all knowledge at our fingertips.
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
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Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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Intelligence is sexy. Don't play dumb, especially young girls. Don't play dumb. And let people see that you are intelligent.
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One of the ways the North Korea regime has kept power is by keeping its people ignorant of the living standards in the outside world. That's the underlying lie that supports the regime - not that their country is 'normal' but that they are better off.
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A lot of times, songs can blend together on the radio because there's so many great songs out there.
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When I see other working actresses that are brown, I get so excited. I get so excited when I see Zoe Kravitz, Janelle Monae, Taraji P. Henson, Ava Duvernay, and all these beautiful women working.
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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
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At the end, it's your movie and your performance that stands out. So if I am a good actor, and if am being part of good entertaining engaging films, audiences will like me.
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I'm in a sketch comedy group in school and I also do stand-up.
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IQ is a commodity, data is a commodity. I'm far more interested in watching people interact at a restaurant with their smartphone. We can all read 'Tech Crunch,' 'Ad Age.' I would rather be living in the trenches. I would rather be going to Whole Foods in Columbus Circle to watch people shop with their smartphones.
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I can only speak for myself and my own music, because that is what I am most familiar with, and I write about things that I am living or experiencing.
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I think with every part you do, you become a better actor. I've learned from my experiences on that.
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I have more free time than a lot of individuals, so, instead of talking, I sometimes write.
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Dad always explained the car engine when he repaired it, and he had many technical books, so I was making electromagnets by age eight as well as reading my mother's medical and nursing books. I suspect I was born with a boundless curiosity, and this was encouraged through my childhood.
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I am just one of the overwhelming majority of Americans who is responsible and hard-working and at one point in their life benefited greatly from government programs such as student loans, Medicare, and Social Security.
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Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge.
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I'm not perfect at all.
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I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right.
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You get to an age where you get tired of hiding behind whatever people think is correct.
