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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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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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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We need to do things better, but in a way that makes sense.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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I have to protect my family and have a life with them that is completely private.
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I tend to mostly take the day off from working on Sundays, but I do spend some time reading. Mostly what I'm picking up is what's in stores. I really do love to read fiction from the last year or two.
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You can never get enough of 'Jeopardy.'
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On a purely personal level, it's very strange, because as a kid, Superman informed my personality. Now I've been given the job of forming Superman's personality and, in some ways, drawing on my own background.
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I kind of put myself out there as is. I'm a quiet person. I don't know if that's surprising. I'm a Pilates junkie.
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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.
