Melody Beattie Quotes
It's so easy to look around and notice what's wrong. It takes practice to see what's right.
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I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.
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But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of importance really at all - it is quite embarrassing to me to be asked my opinion about things. I am only a wee Scottish poet on the outside of everything.
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I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.
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It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.
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When you cross over on fandoms, people don't know what to do with themselves.
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Beijing, much as it has done with Hong Kong, persists in equating 'people power' with instability.
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'Pretty Little Liars' is very all-consuming of my time, but I guess it's a great problem to have... there have been other things that have come that were on the table and then were not.
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None of us takes amending the Constitution lightly. The plain fact is this amendment has been exhaustively studied and it really is time to act.
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The sixty-minute drama form has become very rich.
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You say something, things you would rather forget, and then they are out there. It makes me anxious and I don't know why people are interested in me anyway. If I had my way, I would rather exist in a little hole and not speak to anyone.
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The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.
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When I'm doing a movie, I'm not doing anything else. It's all about the movie. I don't have a wife. I don't have a kid. Nothing can get in my way... I've made a choice, so far, to go on this road alone. Because this is my time. This is my time to make movies.
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It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.
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I am a committed observer. I like staying in the background and seeing what's going on.
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The Gothic tradition was begun by Ann Radcliffe, a rare example of a woman creating an artistic style.
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'That man is … odd,' I dared say to William.'He is, or has been, in many ways a great man. But for this very reason he is odd. It is only petty men who seem normal.'
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Every single thing in the world that was made by anyone started with an idea. So to catch one that is powerful enough to fall in love with, it is one of the most beautiful experiences. It's like being jolted with electricity and knowledge at the same time.
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E-governance is easy governance, effective governance, and also economic governance. E-governance paves the way for good governance.
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And frankly, being a woman I think gives me a slightly different take on a lot of the issues and on a lot of the solutions to the problems we face.
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Life is constantly supporting us and giving us gifts. It's a matter of opening ourselves to that.
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You put your head on the ground, and in that moment everything was okay.
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It's so easy to look around and notice what's wrong. It takes practice to see what's right.
