Belva Plain Quotes
How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!
Belva Plain
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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.
Gary Zukav
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The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.
Ovid
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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.
Beck
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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.
Paddy Considine
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I feel like songwriting is an experiment in empathy.
Zooey Deschanel
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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.
Dan Futterman
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It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw.
Damien Hirst
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The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.
Lester B. Pearson
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I don't love women. Love has to be reinvented, we know that. The only thing women can ultimately imagine is security. Once they get that, love, beauty, everything else goes out the window. All they have left is cold disdain; that's what marriages live on nowadays. Sometimes I see women who ought to be happy, with whom I could have found companionship, already swallowed up by brutes with as much feeling as an old log.
Arthur Rimbaud
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I never had a desire to be a filmmaker. As a child and a teenager and in college, I was not aware of black women making films.
Ava DuVernay
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How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!
Belva Plain
