JoBeth Williams Quotes
It was my first scene in any movie and my only scene in Kramer vs. Kramer. I was petrified.
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There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
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I do not regret the part I have taken in a cause so just and interesting to mankind.
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Who knows what would have become of me, if my parents had not had their influence on me.
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With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
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I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.
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My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!
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I'm prepared for Amir Khan moving swiftly - or for whatever style he comes out using. I prepared with sparring, in the style similar to what he uses.
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Well did graduate summa cum laude from Fordham University.
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I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.
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I don't want to collect Indian art, though pots and beadwork and blankets made by Indians remain the most beautiful art objects in the American West, in my opinion.
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When you're getting old, obviously you try to put on the best cream, you have massages, you try to stay beautiful, but I think wrinkles can sometimes be more beautiful than having none.
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Just because you're selling out shows doesn't mean you deserve better treatment than the person next door.
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At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
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Police can only act on intelligence.
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I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use it.
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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Best Buy is just too Western! They do not stock enough Chinese brands, and Chinese people do not want to buy foreign brands.
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The first term of the Clinton administration was very jolly. Everybody was running around meeting people and of course, in the second term, everyone went down the black hole, which also happened at the end of the Reagan administration.
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You know what, I remember being on my T-ball team and telling people about 'Platoon.'
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I think it's good to have a nice, healthy group of people all doing different things. A lot of my friends don't even work in Hollywood; they just happen to live in L.A.
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I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours. For me, it takes a while to settle into a mode where I'm truly concentrating.
Curtis Sittenfeld -
I always like to write where I'm at in real life into whatever I'm working on.
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Musically, there's a movement called the flatted fifth that's really evil-sounding. It was outlawed by the Catholic Church during the Middle Ages. That movement is what gives you a real evil sound that conjures up dark, fantastic images. It's like an audio horror movie. It personifies what a horror movie is about.
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It was my first scene in any movie and my only scene in Kramer vs. Kramer. I was petrified.
