Betty Wright (Bessie Regina Norris) Quotes
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It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
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Ultimately, the only people who are in any way edified by hanging with famous people are you at the age of 11 and your mom.
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Dormer by name, Dormer by nature: I love to sleep.
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I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
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I've always said that acting found me. I didn't really find it.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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The thing that can get kind of annoying is, when you travel so much, how hectic it gets. I was being interviewed once - it was a phone interview - and they said, 'Where are you right now?' and I didn't know where I was.
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I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
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Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.
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Seriously, who doesn't want to slap a 27-year-old movie star?
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We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.
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There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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Cancer is awful. It took 10 years until I didn't think about it every day. Nobody should go through this. Nobody.
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There is no truly global justice.
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For me, having a child is a really great responsibility because you've got something there that is depending on you for information and love until a certain age when it goes to school.
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My kids are in school and in all these clubs - chess club, fashion club, you name it. When my dad came home from work, it was late, and when he left, it was early in the morning. On my days off, I'm still taking my kids to school and picking them up. I do what I have to do to keep that relationship.
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I spent quite a lot of time in front of the bathroom mirror. Nearby, there was a stack of books. My favorites were 'The Death of Manolete' and the cartoons of Charles Addams. I would pretend to be Morticia Addams. I was drawn to her. I used to pull my eyes back and see how I'd look with slanted eyelids.
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The world had already changed before September 11. The world has been going through a process of change over the last 20 or 30 years. A civilization ends, another one begins.
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The fact is that given the challenges we face, education doesn't need to be reformed -- it needs to be transformed. The key to this transformation is not to standardize education, but to personalize it, to build achievement on discovering the individual talents of each child, to put students in an environment where they want to learn and where they can naturally discover their true passions.
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You learn who you really are in a fight - what you're really made of. You have to face yourself and rise above your own fears and failings.
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Compassion, not passion, keeps a marriage together.
