Beverly Johnson Quotes
I was supposedly living this glamorous life, but I was crippled by the idea of growing old and where do I go next? The whole age thing—in our industry, it's everything.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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I was so proud when I was commissioned into the Army.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.
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People know I have a good time on stage. I love my life. I love my job.
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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There needs to be a place in the church or just outside - there needs to be a place where people feel free to ask questions without being put upon, where they feel free to ask difficult, challenging questions to voice their skepticism.
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My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
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Within Internet users, you have a big chunk of people who can convert to online shopping.
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I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.
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An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
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I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
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Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.
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The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.
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I secretly wanted to act. I also wanted be a toy designer and make puppets.
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It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.
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It's good to be sent back to the underground. There's always a good side to bad things and the good side to this is that at least everyone has to go back down.
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I'll be at the table, as I've been, willing to talk to any Republican who says, 'Look, my country is more important, this pile of bills is not going to go away, the challenges that we have is not going to disappear, we need to cross that divide.' I'm ready. I'm waiting.
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It has been a motto of mine my whole life - just be yourself.
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Having failed, do you accept failure, saying only: Well, it is so. I will turn to other things? When night comes, do you accept the blackness of it, saying only: Well, it is so. I will turn and wait for morning? Or do you go on striving to light a candle against that dark however often the wind blows out the flame, however often the night returns?
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Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.
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I was supposedly living this glamorous life, but I was crippled by the idea of growing old and where do I go next? The whole age thing—in our industry, it's everything.
