Martha Beck Quotes
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I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
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Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond reality in some respects.
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I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.
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I stayed on my own path and did not follow the herd. I made a way for myself.
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Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.
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I used to try to pick locks because I grew up on my grandparents' farm and I started my own little spy club. I would go around the farm and try to break into the shed and try spying on my grandpa. It was ridiculous.
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I was the first actress who branded her own line at a time when everyone just lent their name to a product. Everyone said I shouldn't do it, but it was probably the best thing I've ever done.
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To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
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I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader.
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Jessica Lange was my biggest crush when I was a kid.
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Those of us raised in modern cities tend to notice horizontal and vertical lines more quickly than lines at other orientations. In contrast, people raised in nomadic tribes do a better job noticing lines skewed at intermediate angles, since Mother Nature tends to work with a wider array of lines than most architects.
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It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.
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I, myself, I am not interested in reality television; just me, myself, speaking.
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That is the exciting thing: I don't know what God has given me for tomorrow.
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I'm a closet outdoorsy athletic enthusiast, and I would love to do a rafting and hiking trip someday and maybe sleep in a treehouse and bathe in a chilly winding river.
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There's a lot more pressure on me at United. There are people out there trying to shoot you down.
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I learned from different guys I played with, too. The key was probably three people: The good Lord, the offensive linemen I played with and great fullbacks that could block very well.
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I felt uncomfortable in cliques.
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One of the reasons that I accepted, once asked to do Star Trek, was to give a single child a chance to see the long thought, to see themselves some 400 years hence. It occurred to me that we must ensure that we keep in front of children the ever-changing horizon.
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Everyone is coming after me now. Fine, let them keep on coming. I'm the fastest man in the world, no doubt.
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I actually started modeling in Ethiopia, because that's where I grew up, and I started out by just doing little fashion shows for school, and I liked it so much that I started pursuing it.
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Wisdom consists in being able to distinguish among dangers and make a choice of the least harmful.
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I think I'm funnier in my writing than in person.
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We evolved to move and to learn with all our five senses!
