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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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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I am always looking for ways to move technology away from being over-featured. Moving to Silicon Valley in the mid-1990s meant I grew up as a designer in an environment where technology is a tool and not a means to an end. I believe that design should be driven by ideas, not style.
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Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.
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What matters is this: Being fearless of failure arms you to break the rules. In doing so, you may change the culture and just possibly, for a moment, change life itself.
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I was a Marvel kid, and I would have to say that Spiderman is my all-time favorite character. As I got older, my tastes developed a little bit more, and I would follow certain writers; like, I really got into Grant Morrison. From the time I was 5, I was into comic books. From the time I learned how to read, it was all about comic books.
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You can't be funny if you don't have good material.
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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.
