Beatrice Sparks Quotes
If people are going to keep a journal, they should do it when they’re little, where all the good things happen, before life starts kicking you in the ass and in the head and every other places.
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I've always sung in choirs and acapella groups, but when I was in college, I finally started writing songs and playing with a band, and that ignited a desire to do it full time and pour everything I had into it.
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The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow.
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I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.
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The best piece of advice that my mother gave me is to never have a plan B. She told me to stick to plan A because if you have a plan B you will inevitably fall back on it.
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There were definitely dark nights when you're like, 'Maybe joining the military wasn't such a good idea.' But, in a way, it was the best training to be an actor.
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Human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.
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I like that the 'Underworld' series created a whole other world that's totally different yet familiar to our own.
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That's what makes writer's block so painful. You think the well has run dry, maybe somewhere in the heavens the tap has been turned off. That's beyond frightening.
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I'll invent a lie. Ricky Gervais has done anything interesting since 'The Office'. There's a lie right there.
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My work is made on lines similar to those of a film production. A lot of my work is kind of bureaucratic, endlessly phoning up people, trying to find the cameraman and the lighting man, because I am a total technology-phobe, quite helpless with equipment.
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We have been fortunate enough to do something that has always been out of the mainstream and yet have an audience for what we do.
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I have lived my whole life with high intensity.
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A location-aware tablet will let us use what's called geodesign to compose participatory, what-if scenarios onsite, using maps that several people can share - something we could always do with paper but that's been a challenge with digital maps in the field.
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It's as simple as you can explain all of 'Dallas.' We're a dysfunctional family forced to stay together.
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Es ist so bequem, unmündig zu sein. Habe ich ein Buch, das für mich Verstand hat, einen Seelsorger, der für mich Gewissen hat, einen Arzt, der für mich die Diät beurtheilt u. s. w., so brauche ich mich ja nicht selbst zu bemühen. Ich habe nicht nöthig zu denken, wenn ich nur bezahlen kann.
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Composing's not voluntary, you know. There's no choice, you're not free. You're landed with an idea and you have responsibility to that idea.
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In some lyceums they tell me that they have voted to exclude the subject of religion. But how do I know what their religion is, and when I am near to or far from it? I have walked into such an arena and done my best to make a clean breast of what religion I have experienced, and the audience never suspected what I was about.
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‘Yes, my friend,’ he said. ‘It is so easy to be an American - here in Paris! A nasal voice - the chewing gum - the little goatee - the horned-rimmed spectacles - all the appurtenances of the stage American…’
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There is a beginning and end to all life - and to all human endeavors. Species evolve and die off. Empires rise, then break apart. Businesses grow, then fold. There are no exceptions. I'm OK with all that. Yet it pains me to bear witness to the sixth great extinction, where we humans are directly responsible for the extirpation of so many wonderful creatures and invaluable indigenous cultures. It saddens me to observe the plight of our own species; we appear to be incapable of solving our problems.
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The beautiful thing is that ageism just doesn't exist on 'EastEnders.' The show saved me.
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I'm not a writer who refuses to talk about a book until I've finished.
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To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.
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If people are going to keep a journal, they should do it when they’re little, where all the good things happen, before life starts kicking you in the ass and in the head and every other places.
