JoBeth Williams Quotes
I was raised in cities but I was raised in Texas, so there's a certain amount of connection to the earth.
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Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.
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I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.
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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
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I come from a theater background, and if you're doing a play, your audience is right there, and you're able to have that one-on-one experience. Doing more TV now, when fans come up to me on the street and talk to me on social media, that's a way to bridge that gap.
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When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
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Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.
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My grandparents don't really listen to pop music, and they only speak Spanish and only listen to Spanish music.
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I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.
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Fighting bitterness can be a full-time job.
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My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.
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You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism – so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.
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I'm from a very small village in the middle of nowhere, four hours by airplane from Moscow. Yemanzhelinsk - you wouldn't find it on the map. Don't even try it. It's super, super tiny.
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All honest work is good work; it is capable of leading to self-development, provided the doer seeks to discover the inherent lessons and makes the most of the potentialities for such growth.
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I generally travel with my laptop, a couple of great books, and my iPod.
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Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?
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I still think I am the greatest.
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I feel I've always got to keep my stand-up because I never want to lose it.
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America is the greatest country on Earth. But because of some of the mistakes that have been made, we, I think, are going to have a lot of work to do in the next administration to restore that sense that America is that shining beacon on a hill.
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I think the future takes care of itself.
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To protect the right of expression is the central part of an artist’s activity. . . . . In China many essential rights are lacking, and I wanted to remind people of this.
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I was raised in cities but I was raised in Texas, so there's a certain amount of connection to the earth.
