Belva Plain Quotes
It was unwise to plan too carefully. It took only one great failure to learn that lesson.
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I don't plan on being bashful.
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The only reason that it takes me seven years to do stuff is because I just don't really have a plan.
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I think we should be encouraged to learn from Columbine and let it be a battle cry for all of us.
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I learn something in the interviews from time to time.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.
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While I try to keep my fitness regimen consistent, during awards season, I'm especially conscious of what I'll be wearing and plan my workouts accordingly.
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I didn't allow failure to break my heart. So I wouldn't allow success to bloat my head.
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This may sound trite, but bad things happen to good people, and when you're facing terrorism, natural disaster, you can have every wonderful plan in place, but I am a realist.
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It's tough, but you learn your lesson from all the mistakes you make.
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Back in 1968, when I was 30, my entire life blew up. I had a life plan, and it collapsed for no rational reason.
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People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.
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I don't know how to get bored. I need to learn to rest.
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The democratic system is challenged by the failure in television because our evening news programmes have gone for an attempt to entertain as much as to inform in the desperate fight for ratings.
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My friend was on dialysis for six years before he got a new kidney. I was on dialysis for eight months. I'm almost not even the typical person who has kidney failure.
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I'm a big fan of movies, but I'm a bigger fan of filmmaking itself. I fell in love with it when I was very young, and I have always loved to learn the craft, every aspect of it.
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I would love to learn popping, locking and robotics, gymnastics and acrobatics; it is amazing to learn these things.
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It was an interesting question as to whether the BBC had a future in the digital world, and what form of market failure could justify the licence fee system.
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Three or four years ago a distinguished Frenchman, M. Hovelacque, published an article on America in the Revue de Paris in which he maintained that the essential weakness of our American civilization lay in the failure of our education to produce any equivalent of the superior man of Confucius or the καλὸς κἀγαθός of the Greeks.
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Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources.
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On the day I was born, or possibly on one of the following days, my father went on a walk in the forested hills and thought of a name for me. His first son was called Daniel, and Samuel in memory of one of his forefathers.
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Boredom is the mind’s scar tissue.
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It was unwise to plan too carefully. It took only one great failure to learn that lesson.
