Belva Plain Quotes
I stand and listen to people speaking french in the stores and in the street. It's such a pert, crisp language, elegant as ruffling taffeta.
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I always was drawn to the performing arts. I started dancing when I was two. I sang, loved to act, and loved going to visit my mom on-set. But she wanted me to have a normal childhood, so I wasn't really allowed to pursue acting till I got older.
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We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.
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If there's one thing that I've done on purpose it's to take whatever job, so long as it's interesting and challenging, whether it's theatre, radio, TV or film.
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I wanted to study to be a dental hygienist, marry a rich dentist, and hang it up.
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Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.
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My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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I need to be more consistent about taking care of myself no matter how busy I am.
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I want to win football games.
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I just want to continue with gymnastics because I'm still young and fresh. I think can get some more titles under my belt.
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I knew on the day that I accepted my job at CNN that a ratings victory at 8 P.M. was going to be a formidable challenge. As I have been told over and over, this is the toughest time slot in cable news.
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Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution.
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Everyone has a temper. A temper is an emotion.
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There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wishes to confess a crime or a person who calls the police to offer a confession because volunteered statements of any kind are not barred by the 5th Amendment.
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'Mojave' is a very wild, throwback film with these two dudes going after each other.
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I describe myself as an environmentalist not because I'm marching in the street with placards but because I like to be in the woods by myself.
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Sadly, black people disassociate ourselves from the things which make us who we are, identifying them as lesser, or inferior. It's a form of self hate. So, with reckless abandon, we strive to be like the majority.
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Nobody is original anymore. Nobody has any original style.
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Most of my work is based in Hyderabad, so it makes sense that I own a house here. Another reason I want a home here is because I want to have my own kitchen so that I can cook, since I hate food from hotels.
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God took the beauty of the Bay of Naples, the Valley of the Nile, the Swiss Alps, the Hudson River Valley, rolled them into one and made San Francisco Bay.
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I hate watching myself on film because I am so judgmental.
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Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.
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It is a general truth that students of language in every era try to colonize some or all of the other human sciences.
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I stand and listen to people speaking french in the stores and in the street. It's such a pert, crisp language, elegant as ruffling taffeta.
