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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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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Lending rate is a function of both liquidity as well as credit demand.
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We all owe everyone for everything that happens in our lives. But it's not owing like a debt to one person--it's really that we owe everyone for everything. Our whole lives can change in an instant--so each person that keeps that from happening, no matter how small a role they play, is also responsible for all of it. Just by giving friendship and love, you keep the people around you from giving up--and each expression of friendship or love may be the one that makes all the difference.
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I was thrilled when a designer shop assistant said I was a size smaller than Madonna!
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I suspect political fiction is at its best precisely when it doesn't preach, but restricts itself to showing the reader a different way of life or thought, and merely makes it clear that this is an end-point or outcome for some kind of political creed.
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The year 2014 was a big year for my taste buds. They really stepped up their game. Like, I got into red wine, coffee and sushi for the first time. Well done, George.
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West Indian people had made their greatest single cultural investment in cricket.
