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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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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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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He was a great man. He taught himself how to walk again, to write with his left hand. My father was a hero.
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And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
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For an interesting nonfiction read, I really enjoyed 'Quiet' by Susan Cain. I read it with my husband, who is a true introvert, whereas I am an introvert masquerading as an extrovert.
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In Scotland over many years we have cultivated through our justice system what I hope can be described as a 'culture of compassion.' On the other hand, there still exists in many parts of the U.S., if not nationally, an attitude towards the concept of justice which can only be described as a 'culture of vengeance.'
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One of the things you can do as an actor, is compensate for the things you can't do in life.
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They've also asked me now to start on another series that we're gonna do after this Frontier Earth. But it's not science fiction, it's more in the Mystery and Crime division and that's another area I'm very interested in.
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Goodnight Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are.
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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.
