Hilary Beckles Quotes
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I like everything perfect. Everything has to be neat. My sister is 5, and she's more messy than I am. I make my bed every morning, everything's perfect. My shoes are all arranged. It's sad. I'm a little like Ray, a little bit.
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As a musician usually music is your way out.
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I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.
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My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence.
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My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.
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Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write.
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We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs.
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Winning a ring is everybody's goal, whether you're a player or a coach.
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The great champions were always vicious competitors. You never lose respect for a man who is a vicious competitor, and you never hate a man you respect. I don't like Rod Laver because he's such a vicious competitor, but I don't dislike him.
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I've always felt that the traditional novel doesn't give you enough information about the narrator, and I think it's important to know the point of view from which these tales are told: the moral makeup of the teller.
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I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.
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I'm still traumatized that I'm going to be on a big screen in a white bikini and naked so who knows!
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Even if you are a best-seller you feel insecure because it is all so unpredictable.
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People think about Bitcoin incorrectly. They think about it as currency or about gold or hoarding, speculation, about how much money do you make. When really, what it is is an API for programmable cash transactions.
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For example, many colleges in their writing programs teach some of my work.
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People all over the world have problems. And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.
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Maybe I am a little bit guilty of trying to convince myself that I am cool to this point - even today. But I am so much more healthy than I used to be in my twenties, because I was not accepted at all.
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There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.
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Stories don’t end with the writers, however many started the race.
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My view of an excellent novel was probably set in the golden age of fiction in the 19th century: narrative, character and voice are of equal importance.
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At first, laws evolved out of religious doctrines. It followed that they were recognized only when advantageous to those who practiced the same religion and who appeared equals under the protection of the same gods. For the members of all other cults, there was neither law nor mercy.
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West Indian people had made their greatest single cultural investment in cricket.
