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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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 strength of a theory is not what it allows, but what it prohibits; if you can invent an equally persuasive explanation for any outcome, you have zero knowledge.
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I am the poet of the high wire - I never do stunts; I do theatrical performances.
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You say that you hope I will be recognized as the best novelist of my generation. I want you to know now and know completely that that would mean to me absolutely nothing.
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The one thing about art is you can't question it. Everyone is looking at everyone else to find out what's cool. No one knows what's cool.
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The great thing about this is, and not to pump my own tires, but I feel like I'm not maximized yet. I feel like I can still run faster, jump higher, which I think makes it special. Hopefully, going to London, I'll be welcomed into the decathlon community.
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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.
