Beverly Lewis Quotes
If you're a good Amish girl, you're courting, you have three or four different beaus, and you go out and stay out all night. That's just their tradition. They date under the covering of night. No one knows who they're dating or seeing until two weeks before they're going to be married. It's how they've done it for 300 years.
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision.
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Nearly every president in the past 100 years has declared national monuments, from Teddy Roosevelt creating the Grand Canyon National Monument to George W. Bush preserving 10 islands and 140,000 square miles of ocean waters in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
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Action is the foundational key to all success.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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I write, having seen what's happening already in my head. I see it as a movie, and I'm just writing down what's happening in front of me.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.
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Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
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When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.
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I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.
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There's a time that may come in an organization where leading by influence is not enough. When things are not going the way they need to go, there's a time when one has to step up... to set the organization back on the right direction.
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I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.
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I go to wherever God calls me, wherever the church calls me to come to minister and preach the word of God.
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Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.
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My first tour I was on the road for 18 months. You're just out there promoting.
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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Fate has it in for me to be an exhibit: that funny old lady from the telly.
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I loved the material when I first read it, and the experience of making the film was a great one. So when we came around to complete the trilogy, I just signed on board without even reading the scripts because the experience of the first film was so good.
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Any good relationship that I've had with an actor has always been so emotional and personal. If you don't have that then you're just lying.
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I don't believe in messing with mother-nature too much.
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These are the same people who believe, in some cases, the federal government should not play any role in providing health care to our people or protecting the environment.
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If you're a good Amish girl, you're courting, you have three or four different beaus, and you go out and stay out all night. That's just their tradition. They date under the covering of night. No one knows who they're dating or seeing until two weeks before they're going to be married. It's how they've done it for 300 years.
