Beatrice Sparks Quotes
They have accepted me as an individual, as a personality, as an entity. I belong! I am important! I am somebody!
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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I enjoyed the administrative work because it involved working with Congress, city council, and the mayor. I had never been a politician so it was fun - learning political maneuvering.
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I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.
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As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.
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I was born technically in D.C., and then my family moved to the Columbia area when I was in elementary school. It was right on the line between Clarksville and Columbia in Howard County. I remember it being just like a peaceful, safe atmosphere. I always felt connected to the woods and that whole suburban feel.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I get why people want to come see me play guitar, but I still don't understand why people want to interview me.
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2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.
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I love writing but not crazy meticulous/prepared enough to be a director. I'd work as a gaffer on something.
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The heart and soul of pop is newness, excitement, innovation.
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My greatest desire as an actor is to keep people guessing and not do anything close to what I did last time.
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Any skills that I have, I couldn't really make money with them. I would like to think that maybe I would be doing something in psychology or something of that nature because I love that vein of medicine - the getting down and getting nitty-gritty.
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One of the problems we're facing is, in my view, that there are no globalized, youth-led, grassroots social movements advocating for democratic culture across Muslim-majority societies.
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I genuinely hit puberty before everyone.
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Film is not a national business. It's international. And its centre will always be Hollywood.
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At one point, I kind of looked in the mirror and said, 'You know, you're a mom. You're a wife. People count on you; you can't go off the deep end into this kind of crazy musical swirl.'
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That was all and it was enough for me: fantasies are better left fantasies.
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I very rarely play the piano at home. Deliberately, so that when I do play it, I love it.
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I'm a writer slash designer slash TV personality.
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The reason literacy is important is that literature is the operating instructions. The best manual we have. The most useful guide to the country we're visiting, life.
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They're sort of ancillary anyway, friends. I mean, they're important -- everybody knows that; the TV tells you so -- but they come and go. You lose one friend, you pick up another.
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I try not to dwell on the past. I'm not a big go-back-and-try-to-relive-your-past kinda person.
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They have accepted me as an individual, as a personality, as an entity. I belong! I am important! I am somebody!
