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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I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
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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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The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
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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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I came into this league by myself, and I'll leave by myself.
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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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I think Earl Scruggs playing propelled bluegrass and Bill Monroe's music to the level that - where we're all still talking about it.
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Business reporting is not dealing with objects, it is dealing with relationships between objects.
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I love baseball, and the door remains open.
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If a pot can multiply. One day Nasrudin lent his cooking pots to a neighbour, who was giving a feast. The neighbour returned them, together with one extra one – a very tiny pot. 'What is this?' asked Nasrudin. 'According to law, I have given you the offspring of your property which was born when the pots were in my care,' said the joker. Shortly afterwards Nasrudin borrowed his neighbour's pots, but did not return them. The man came round to get them back. 'Alas!' said Nasrudin, 'they are dead. We have established, have we not, that pots are mortal?'.
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Compassion, not passion, keeps a marriage together.
