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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Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.
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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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I just sing. You have to use it.
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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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I think the last book I cried in was Patti Smith's 'Just Kids.' I don't shy away from crying, though. I actually really enjoy being moved like that.
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Football is an elective. It's a game. It's make-believe. And to think that people have brain damage from some made-up game.
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I've long been an admirer of Philip French's way of writing as well as his knowledge of films. He was one of the few critics to be aware, and make audiences aware, of the work of people on a film set other than the director.
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It's no secret that Cuba is a typical Latin American culture in that it has a fair amount of homophobia. Homosexuals have been notoriously persecuted under Fidel's government.
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West Indian people had made their greatest single cultural investment in cricket.
