Bel Kaufman Quotes
Happy? It was a word she had been fond of using when she was young. But it meant one thing at eighteen, another at thirty-two. Its only test was contrast with unhappiness.
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In 2005, I had one more year of college left, and I was taking a summer class in Barbados. I got discovered in the airport on my way back and started modeling at the beginning of my senior year at Bucknell.
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I never understood the realism of an imaginary circumstance. While I was doing 'Smoke Signals,' I relied on my instinct and what I grew up with. I had this energy, but it was a one-dimensional thing.
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If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
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I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.
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Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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I think it's fun running with dogs. They're always so fit and fast.
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Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?
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Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn't know. So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He's not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball.
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I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.
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Remember: You are the common denominator in all your relationship problems. Wherever you go, your pesky repeated issues go - until you shed a blazing light of insight upon them.
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If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't want to change to be something that I'm not for other people to like me.
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I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.
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I can be very self-destructive, but quietly.
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I and others of my sex find ourselves controlled by a form of government in the inauguration of which we had no voice.
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My job in 'Motive' is to be the rebellious teenager - what boy wouldn't want to be that?
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Their practice habits are terrific. I've been around some really good guys from different teams in terms of bringing it to practice. When I was in San Francisco, Bryant Young was that way. Every practice on it.
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No one in my family is in entertainment. They thought acting was a fun hobby, and when I got a degree, I'd settle down.
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In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.
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But the important thing is to lie down and fall asleep. That little nap means you wake up fresh again and can continue.
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The power of the American people, when we rise up and stand for liberty, knows no bounds.
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Right now, my daughter's just rolling her eyes at everything I do; I'm just an embarrassment.
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I blurb a lot of books by women, and I'm eager to provide encouragement and support for young women.
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Happy? It was a word she had been fond of using when she was young. But it meant one thing at eighteen, another at thirty-two. Its only test was contrast with unhappiness.
