Beverly Lewis Quotes
I've met men who've stood in long lines on my book tours, and they've said things like, 'I've read your books and they've changed the direction in my life, and I want to thank you.' I think they're standing in line for their wife or their mother or their sweetheart or somebody, but no.
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For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
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I'd feel guilty just doing gags.
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I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.
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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
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Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.
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In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
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Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.
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He is very upbeat but we hear that all the time from just about any athlete.
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I like 'Ab Fab;' I love the crazy stuff they wear. That's my favourite! I love 'Ab Fab.'
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Car chases are as painstaking to make as they are fun to watch. They take a lot of time, and you have to keep the energy up.
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See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
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When companies minimize their costs, they can spend more on R & D and marketing. It's just very logical.
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If you're making comedies, they have to have a fun and a rhythm to them.
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The slow philosophy is not about doing everything in tortoise mode. It's less about the speed and more about investing the right amount of time and attention in the problem so you solve it.
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My novels are about a generation of Americans who lived between 1940 and 2000, who resisted the postwar political and cultural forces by choosing a wandering life of impoverishment and wonder. Inevitably, race and economics are a big part of their stories. Childhood, childishness, and children are never far.
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The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.
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Throughout history, we have only moved forward when society has distinguished between traditional values and valueless traditions.
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In 1957, with the arms race in full swing, the Department of Defense had decided it was just a matter of time before an airplane transporting an atomic bomb would crash on American soil, unleashing a radioactive disaster the likes of which the world had never seen.
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We need to eliminate the existing hierarchy of subjects. Elevating some disciplines over others only reinforces outmoded assumptions of industrialism and offends the principle of diversity. The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.
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I've met men who've stood in long lines on my book tours, and they've said things like, 'I've read your books and they've changed the direction in my life, and I want to thank you.' I think they're standing in line for their wife or their mother or their sweetheart or somebody, but no.
