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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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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A lot of the time, people think I'm really dumb or really uncomfortable talking to them, which is kind of a real thing.
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It no longer counts as remarkable that Egyptians organized their uprising on social media.
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Immigrants use debt intelligently. They understand the difference between active debt: creating a business, or something to make business better, and dead debt: buying that new sports car or the 60 inch television. Those things don't lead to the good life. They delay getting it.
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After you've read a novel, you only retain a vague memory of its contents. You remember the atmosphere, the odd image or phrase or vivid cameo.
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The movies have a way of seeping out there over time. We don't put them in 2,000 theaters. It wouldn't work that way.
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If I'm going to do blues, it's going to be a typical Jimmy Rushing record.
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I'm a professional athlete. I've been paid since I was in my early 20s to go out there and fight with guys who were 40 or 50 pounds heavier than I am and fight for my life. I got into a business where people make decisions based on some of the most stupid things.
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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.
