Beatrice Sparks Quotes
Nobody's talking to me, but nobody's hassling me either. I guess you can't have everything.
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Ever since I took to the streets when I was 17 to protest at great personal risk against the communist dictatorship, I have been a passionate democrat.
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Let us have peace.
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'Drive' is a genre piece, and a lot of times we don't get really sophisticated genre films.
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The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.
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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
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It's difficult when you want it all.
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I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so forth.
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I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands.
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Pitchers are smart. They know they are much better off if they mix things up and keep you off-balance.
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I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.
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I've been around some really good guys from different teams.
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The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.
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As a candidate, Obama disdained the game of politics, a self-conscious contrast to all the tireless political athletes named Clinton.
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I felt I'd earned the Good Housekeeping Seal when I designed an oval-shaped spaghetti pot, because spaghetti is long.
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I certainly think it's very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about things that matter to them.
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Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
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It’s a nice feeling to make and break records but one shouldn’t get too used to it because it’s not going to happen every time. So no point competing with previous records. I believe we should work hard, try our best and then let people decide if they like the film or not.
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I have an iPod, but I do still love CDs. There's something nice and tangible about a CD. I'm a mixture of old and new - I love my sewing machine, but I've also embraced new technology. The iPad is what did it for me - it's extraordinary.
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Bill Powell is the only intelligent actor I've ever met
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Why are you breaking down, incidentally? I mean if you’re able to go into a collapse with all your might, why can’t you use the same energy to stay well and busy?
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Some of what these pamphlets [of astrological forecasts] say will turn out to be true, but most of it time and experience will expose as empty and worthless. The latter part will be forgotten literally: written on the winds while the former will be carefully entered in people's memories, as is usual with the crowd.
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For those of you who don't understand Reaganomics, it's based on the principle that the rich and the poor will get the same amount of ice. In Reaganomics, however, the poor get all of theirs in winter.
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I feel naked without jewelry. If I'm having a bad hair day, I pick something from my huge collection of hats.
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Nobody's talking to me, but nobody's hassling me either. I guess you can't have everything.
