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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I went to an all-girls school, and I always felt like I missed out on a traditional high-school life.
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The government's position was that we have frigates that have got a useful life until 2006. There is no necessity for us to make final decisions until 2002.
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Now that Marilyn Monroe is kosher, Arthur Miller can eat her.
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Having written both comedy and drama, comedy's harder because the fear of failure's so much stronger. When you write a scene and you see it cut together, and it doesn't make you laugh, it hurts in a way that failed drama doesn't. Failed drama, it's all, 'That's not that compelling,' but failed comedy just lays there.
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Passion is what drives me forward. Passion is what makes me go to bed at 2am and wake up at 6am.
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Compassion, not passion, keeps a marriage together.
