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 -
If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
Ted Turner -
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 -
There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
I'm not afraid of change, let's put it that way.
Hannah Simone -
Only science and the spirit of seeking truth from facts can save China. I firmly believe in this.
Wen Jiabao
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Frankly, I thought we would have lost the House by now.
Ed Gillespie -
But just playing the partner of someone famous, I had a lot more freedom.
Rachel Griffiths
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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 -
Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
Rabindranath Tagore -
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 -
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 -
For many years when I was younger, I let negative things that people said about me affect my life. What I've learned is that it's really important to find the right support network, focus on the positive things in your life and quiet that negative voice in your head.
Brittany Snow -
Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.
Denis Diderot
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I had a lot of jobs in New York. I worked in a cafe, and I did bike delivery, and I was a mover. And I babysat, which was really cool in some cases and really insane in others.
Kevin Morby -
Life is about experience... You can't hold on to everything
Sarah Addison Allen -
When the Internet was first - as an experiment and then when it - as it mushroomed, security was never an integral part of what the Internet was designed for. I mean, it just didn't - wasn't a consideration.
James R. Clapper -
I'm sick of playing romantic leads.
John Corbett -
I think the thing that I always try to do - because it piques my interest - is to play really different parts all the time.
Christina Ricci -
Maybe the new me will be different.
Beatrice Sparks