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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Mothers are not supposed to give guidance.
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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 feel I've always got to keep my stand-up because I never want to lose it.
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In idle wishes fools supinely stay;Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way.
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What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men.
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As an actor, depending on who you are, you might be stopped on the street and might not get all the privacy you want, but I'd rather have that than no human connection whatsoever.
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I've left Bethlehem, and I feel free. I've left the girl I was supposed to be, and some day I'll be born.
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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.
