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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I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.
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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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Sometimes you have to laugh about what gets published; sometimes it's annoying, but in general I don't care.
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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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I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star.
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'Mojave' is a very wild, throwback film with these two dudes going after each other.
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Predominantly I'm an Adidas guy who walks around in sports gear all the time because there's always a ball right next to me somewhere. I do a lot of sports, but I do enjoy wearing a lot of suits.
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After graduation, I was floundering in L.A., doing stand-up comedy and working in a shoe store in the Valley.
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You go through at least the first two years of Star Trek and you find some amazing stuff. Everything that was going on Gene put into the series. He just put strange costumes on the actors and painted them funny colours and left the same situation in.
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I suppose it was karma that Substance would then turn out to be our biggest-selling album ever; we gave away our biggest-selling record to the record company at a reduced cost – for no reason other than they couldn’t pay us for the other ones at the full rate because of bad management.
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English is weak in describing emotional states or intensities of interpersonal relationships.
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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.
