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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I want my weekends off and I want to put my kids to bed. Those are good reasons to want to be in 'Batman 2'.
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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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Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earth's treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply.
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I like my name. My mom named me after a song by the 1970s group Bread. So, it's meaningful, and I like the song. It's a love song - kind of - but it's kind of depressing and dark.
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Levin wanted friendship and got friendliness; he wanted steak and they offered spam.
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I've retired a couple of times. It's great, because you can just say, 'Oh, I'm sorry. I'm retired.'
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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.
