Beatrice Sparks Quotes
I'm afraid to hope but I can't help it, and the idea of hoping in this most hopeless of all places makes me want to cry.
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You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan.
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There is always shame in the creation of an expressive work, whether it's a book or a clay pot. Every artist worries about how they will be seen by others through their work. When you create, you aspire to do justice to yourself, to remake yourself, and there is always the fear that you will expose the very thing that you hoped to transform.
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Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from the people we have hurt.
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Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.
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It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.
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I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and said, 'It's such an honor playing your daughter,' and she smiled and said, 'Oh, shut up.' I thought, 'Great, a normal person.'
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I know that my tendency is to be linear, and I'm trying to find ways to subvert that. And so in 'Bellocq's Ophelia' my device for subverting it was to tell the story and then to tell it again; it always circles back to this one moment, and it's not linear, but it's round in that way, and much of 'Native Guard' is like that.
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I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.
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Comedy comes from conflict, from hatred.
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If you stand up for women, then don't bash me.
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I think the acquisition of consumers might be on the verge of being mapped. The battlefield is going to be retention and lifetime value.
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Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.
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You want to live your own life, but when you have fame, there are certain things you can't get away with.
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Girls think that being glamorous means making mistakes and being irresponsible. And that's just not true. The smarter you are, the better prepared you are to make decisions in your life, the more likely you are to lead a satisfying life and be glamorous and fun and anything you want to be.
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I'm worth every penny because I'm a complete professional who does her work well.
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His vision was to industrialize India, to urbanize India, and in the process he hoped that we would create a new society - more rational, more humane, less ridden by caste and religious sentiments. That was the grand vision that Nehru had.
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The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.
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The world must come together to confront climate change. There is little scientific dispute that if we do nothing, we will face more drought, famine and mass displacement that will fuel more conflict for decades.
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The best therapists can do with sadness, anger, and anxiety is to help patients live in the more comfortable part of their set range.
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In junior high, I was still writing poems and stories. In college, I was a journalism major. When I got out of college, I went to work for an educational publisher, so I was still writing, developing curriculums.
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These butterflies are the symbol of richness of biological diversity and marvelous scientific aspect.
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I'm afraid to hope but I can't help it, and the idea of hoping in this most hopeless of all places makes me want to cry.
