Beatrice Sparks Quotes

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• I like playing with that space between laughter and discomfort where your discomfort can also make you laugh, and you're confused about the mixed feelings. That's challenging, and I think that's what makes for some of the best art.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • Art
  • Space
  • Best

• If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Yourself
  • Dying
  • Afraid

• If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Writing
  • Energy
  • Hand

• There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Tired
  • Busy
  • Pursuing

• I'm not afraid of change, let's put it that way.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Way
  • Change
  • Afraid

• Only science and the spirit of seeking truth from facts can save China. I firmly believe in this.

  

  Wen Jiabao
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Science

• I think that when the social stakes for people are higher, how you present yourself may sometimes feel like it's going to inform your destiny. Because if other people regard you in a certain way, they'll want to help you, and you will end up having a career.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • Up
  • May

• Whether I'm a bit of an old soul or not, I am who I am, and that doesn't change, whether I'm with adults or with my friends.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Friends
  • Soul
  • Change

• I go to correctional facilities and talk to kids there. They have little kids in there who are, like, 12 years old, stealing cars and stuff like that.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Kids
  • Old
  • Talk

• I've had projects before where everyone says 'This is going to be the big thing,' and it doesn't really turn out to be. Then there is a little project you do and forget about, and then it comes out, and it's huge.

  

  Samm Levine
  • Forget
  • Everyone
  • Project

• No other country in the world does what we do. On every issue, the world turns to us, not simply because of the size of our economy or our military might - but because of the ideals we stand for, and the burdens we bear to advance them.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Country
  • Military

• Frankly, I thought we would have lost the House by now.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • House
  • Lost
  • Thought

• But just playing the partner of someone famous, I had a lot more freedom.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Freedom
  • Famous
  • Partner

• In the battle between the sexes, men and women will go practically to the end of the earth in illogical, irrational ways to give each other pain.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Men
  • Women
  • Earth

• Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • She
  • Truth
  • Perfect

• I ever will profess myself the greatest friend to those whose actions best correspond with their doctrine; which, I am sorry to say, is too seldom the case amongst those nations who pretend most to civilization.

  

  J. G. Stedman
  • Friend
  • Civilization
  • Actions

• I remember breaking the news to both my parents that I wanted to be a director, and they both looked very doubtful. They didn't know what a closet Hindi film buff I was. I used to dance to old Hindi films songs on the sly, so my decision to be a part of Hindi cinema was shocking even for my parents.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Remember
  • Parents
  • Decision

• I do not see why so much importance should be attached to the idea of 'research' in painting.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Why
  • Painting

• Rap is really just too conventional. Everybody does the same thing. No one ever pushes the box.

  

  Tyler, The Creator
  • Rap

• Over the years, we settled into American life and embraced it fully. But having come from a different culture, I didn't know the boundaries of American culture. Which is that, as a girl, you didn't play football or soccer at lunch with the boys, and to be cool, you didn't get into math Olympiad.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Life
  • Different
  • American

• As the actors on the show we rarely get an opportunity to, as I said we get the scripts the night before but we have great producers on this show, so every once and a while matt or mike will say "I want to take the character in a different direction this season, what do you think about this?" and we do sort of get to add to it and feed it.

  

  Rachael MacFarlane
  • Great
  • Different
  • Character

• If you're different somehow and have made yourself unique, people will find you and pay you more.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Different

• I wasn't being followed around by paparazzi all the time. I was able to be a kid and spend that time with my family and not grow up too quickly.

  

  Danielle Fishel
  • Up
  • Time
  • Family

• Maybe the new me will be different.

  

  Beatrice Sparks
  • Different