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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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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I don't feel like I have to please anyone. I feel free. I feel like I'm an adult. I'm grown. I can do what I want. I can say what I want. I can retire if I want. That's why I've worked hard.
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I learned to read a little in my primer, to write my own name, and to cypher some in the three first rules in figures. And this was all the schooling I ever had in my life, up to this day. I should have continued longer if it hadn't been that I concluded I couldn't do any longer without a wife, and so I cut out to hunt me one.
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When we hear jokes against women, and we are asked why we don't laugh at them, the answer is easy, simple, and short. Of course we're not laughing . . . . Nobody laughs at the sight of their own blood.
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With five feeble senses we pretend to comprehend the boundlessly complex cosmos, yet other beings with wider, stronger, or different range of senses might not only see very differently the things we see, but might see and study whole worlds of matter, energy, and life which lie close at hand yet can never be detected with the senses we have.
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It is common for those who flourish under any system to feel that the failure of others is deserved.
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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.
