Belva Plain Quotes
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For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.
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In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it.
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Without faith, I don't think I'd be here.
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There are dodgy characters in Bitcoin. But there are dodgy characters in cash, too.
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I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.
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Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
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Mexico is the only country in the world that has a trade agreement with United States and Canada, and at the same time has one with Europe. These are the two largest markets in the world. By the same token, Mexico has one of the most open economies.
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We love to start from a real place, whether it's us or our friends or working on a story from a writer's friend.
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Right now, I have to admit, that I'm more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness.
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The food isn't too bad. It's very different from the food that the astronauts ate in the very early days of the space program.
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If you have life's experiences with you, nothing can stop you from being a competent actor.
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Keep your life so constantly in touch with God that His surprising power can break through at any point.
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The peasants of all lands recognize power and they salute it, whether it's good or evil.
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I can't stand people that do not take food seriously.
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Promoting his new book, President Bush visited the headquarters of Facebook. Unfortunately, he spent the whole visit on Farmville, clearing brush.
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I'm approaching the idea of taking on a responsibility as great as saying, "I'm good enough to be in your movie." It's a huge statement to make, and every time I do it, I think, "Is this the right choice?"
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I had a date with an inflatable girl. Now I got an inflatable guy looking for me.
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The difficulty is to know conscience from self-interest.
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Sometimes your mistakes are you biggest virtues. You learn so much from the mistake. Those things that you think are the worst thing that's happening to you can somehow turn around and be the greatest opportunity.
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Still, we will let all this be a thing of the past, though it hurts us, and beat down by constraint the anger that rises inside us. Now I am making an end of my anger. It does not become me, unrelentingly to rage on.
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Largely, now, it was not anger he felt, but rather a kind of bone-scraping, quiet, ever-present sorrow. To come to the place that was supposed to stay the same, to come and find it changed. Dr. Miller had warned him against what he called the 'geographic cure.' You can't fix yourself by going somewhere else, he'd said. You'll always take yourself along.
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... wore sorrow and anger like a worn-out coat and would not throw it away.
