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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In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.
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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 will try to give my 100% in the field and do my job.
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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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It's honestly true that money means nothing to me.
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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've never wanted sympathy votes in anything I do in my life.
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I've got loads of ideas, but I need some structure in my life. I need a mission.
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I'm a 'never say never' girl. Frank Sinatra retired four times. He kept coming back. But there are people in our business who want to die on stage. Literally. I don't want to do that.
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I always have some way of putting the stories together that works for the book. I've always switched points of view in my books. I'm a Gemini.
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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.
