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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Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
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It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty.
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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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Accidents at power plants are bad enough. But a leak from a bioreactor could be worse, since bacteria can learn new tricks when you're not looking.
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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 did a lot of songs that I sold, but then they never came out and I never got paid for it. You learn real fast that the music industry, in the beginning, you're not going to get paid for a while, and then you start getting the accolades.
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I just see religious freedom, as a category, as just being a black hole.
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We've got to come out the same way we come out in the second half, ... We've got to start the game with some sense of urgency. Once teams start hitting shots and get a read on us, it's gonna put our backs against the wall. That's something we need to be concerned about.
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Call'd to the temple of impure delight He that abstains, and he alone, does right. If a wish wander that way, call it home; He cannot long be safe whose wishes roam.
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It was unwise to plan too carefully. It took only one great failure to learn that lesson.
