JoBeth Williams Quotes
I think there's a danger of a being typecast as the all-American mom forever.
JoBeth Williams
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Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?
Walt Whitman
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I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city, till the Viking Press, my American publishers of a lifetime, thought of taking me on.
Patrick White
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The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.
Harlan Coben
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I have met hundreds of young people doing just what George Romney did: using a hand up in tough times to become part of the American Dream.
R. T. Rybak
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I would prefer to live forever in perfect health, but if I must at some time leave this life, I would like to do so ensconced on a chaise longue, perfumed, wearing a velvet robe and pearl earrings, with a flute of champagne beside me and having just discovered the answer to the last problem in a British cryptic crossword.
Olivia De Havilland
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It's not that I don't like American pop; I'm a huge admirer of it, but I think my roots came from a very English and Irish base. Is it all sort of totally non-American sounding, do you think?
Kate Bush
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Apart from the intrinsic interest of the complex system of beliefs the Puritans carried with them, their lives give a clue to what it meant at the beginning to be American. And the level of scholarship dealing with them has reached a point where it can address the human condition itself.
Edmund Morgan
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First off, I could never become a doctor. Blood? Even the fake blood on 'American Horror Story,' I'm kind of ready to hurl.
Taissa Farmiga
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Yes, I love playing Mom.
Vicki Lawrence
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When I was in high school, my mom worked at Bed, Bath and Beyond, so I was always there.
Abbi Jacobson
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Violence and chaos were an ever-present part of the world that I grew up in. And unfortunately, it wasn't just in my family. Sometimes, you'd see, you know, Mom fighting with one of her boyfriends. But a lot of times, you'd see people exploding on each other in a local restaurant or on the street.
J. D. Vance
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There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There has been talk of lack of consensus, but we all know that this is the veto of foreign powers, the intolerable situation in our 21st century America.
Rafael Correa
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Take an exhibit, in the days when we saw the Pop art - Andy Warhol and all that - tomato soup cans, etc., and coming home, you saw everything like A. Warhol.
Corita Kent
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I can't constantly be trying to write the unwritten song, the song that the 15-year-old girl needs. I need to write the song that I need.
Kathleen Hanna
Bikini Kill
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Grown-ups do a lot of complaining!
Dav Pilkey
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I love books with titles like, 'How Do You Spank a Porcupine?,' 'Arnie, the Darling Starling,' or 'The Bat in My Pocket.'
Luis Alberto Urrea
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I think there's a danger of a being typecast as the all-American mom forever.
JoBeth Williams
