Beatrice Sparks Quotes
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A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.
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While criticism of Israel is legitimate and justifiable, it cannot be an excuse - in any way, shape or form - for anti-Semitism.
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Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I have always been small, so defenders have always been taller and tougher than me. So that's difficult for me; they foul me sometimes, but there you are - that's what the rules of the game are for.
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I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
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I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.
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I consider everybody who takes themselves seriously to be a little bit off. And Silicon Valley seems to be the most effusive about how important their contributions are to society.
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The only routine with me is no routine at all.
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There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.
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I always say: To be well dressed you must be well naked.
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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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I never had those dreams of making the Olympics. Never.
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Tile is going to the landfill by the metric ton. All we have to do it gather it up, glue it down to the floor and grout it. Then you have a tile floor, and not just any tile floor: it's a mosaic of your own choosing.
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Going around not fully believing that you're going to die is really problematic because it affects how you think about the future of the planet, about the future of your own life, about the decisions you're making.
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I have very eclectic taste in music, but when it comes to going to concerts, I like going to rock concerts.
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I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like a cross between an oboe and a viola, but louder.
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Now, the entire world community recognizes Georgia. We are members of the United Nations and the Council of Europe. Everything is being prepared so that we will soon enter the European Union.
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It might sound odd, but filming a soap is closer to acting in a play than filming episodic television.
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Guilt is ever at a loss, and confusion waits upon it; when innocence and bold truth are always ready for expression.
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The hardest decisions in life are not between good and bad or right and wrong, but between two goods or two rights.
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To be cut off from the land of the living, and yet not to be dead. How could I bear that?That's how most men live, and don't even know it.
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I haven't read more than two pages, but my mother is a George Martin super fan.
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I guess this like everything else bad in life, will pass.
