Belva Plain Quotes
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I have programmed myself to be at least 105 years old.
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Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.
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And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me.
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I will be up at 8 A.M. making spaghetti bolognese for Peter and Sophia's evening meal if I'm working that day. I may not get back for the evening, and I worry if I don't do that, then they won't eat anything.
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Unfortunately, I'm very accident-prone.
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
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Personally I had the opportunity to go on several ride alongs with the LA County Sheriff's Department with some amazing detectives, who were invaluable to me.
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It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.
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Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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You can't build another bridge that's so close to ours. It's stupid.
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We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.
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The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.
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To me, 'rock star' conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the key to the secret that people want to know.
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The more I find out about the dynamic and how it works, the more I realize how lucky I am to have ever got anything. Like... there was no need to put me in 'Cinderella Man' - there was no need. Why? Just get an American actor - it would've been cheaper, probably.
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I feel like songwriting is an experiment in empathy.
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With a play, there's more of a definable arc because of the nature of theater: You know, there's no editing, so there's something more natural about the arc a character follows in a play. I think theater is more an actor's medium, whereas film is more a director's medium, because that's who controls the final feel of the film.
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I never like seeing myself on screen.
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Perhaps the most important word in success and happiness is the word,"ask."
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Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us.
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Knowledge is only potential power. It becomes power only when, and if, it is organized into definite plans of action, and directed to a definite end.
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The problem is, the more famous you get, the more people see you who didn't choose to.
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How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!
