Belva Plain Quotes

... wore sorrow and anger like a worn-out coat and would not throw it away.

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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.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Black
  • Feel
  • Humor

• In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it.

  

  Rafael Vinoly
  • You
  • Everything
  • Without

• Without faith, I don't think I'd be here.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Think
  • Faith
  • Without

• There are dodgy characters in Bitcoin. But there are dodgy characters in cash, too.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Characters
  • Cash
  • Bitcoin

• I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Very
  • Talk
  • Well

• 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.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • People
  • Mind
  • Society

• 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.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Time
  • World
  • Country

• Yes, I do come with certain reservations, and I'm not OK with certain things, but rather than focusing on what I don't want to do, I focus on what I do want to do, and I bring that energy, and that happens.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Want
  • Energy
  • Focus

• 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.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Real
  • Love
  • Friends

• Right now, I have to admit, that I'm more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • People
  • Hope
  • Giving

• 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.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Different
  • Bad
  • Food

• If you have life's experiences with you, nothing can stop you from being a competent actor.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Life
  • Stop
  • Actor

• I haven't hypnotised a whole lot of celebrities, because they're fearful of it.

  

  Keith Barry

• Keep your life so constantly in touch with God that His surprising power can break through at any point.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • God
  • Power

• The peasants of all lands recognize power and they salute it, whether it's good or evil.

  

  Andrei Codrescu
  • Good
  • Power
  • Evil

• [Detractors] are just wrong, and that's okay. They just don't see it yet. That's what I would tell myself to keep those moments of doubt, only moments.

  

  Lisa Kudrow
  • Moments
  • Doubt
  • See

• I can't stand people that do not take food seriously.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Food
  • Take

• Promoting his new book, President Bush visited the headquarters of Facebook. Unfortunately, he spent the whole visit on Farmville, clearing brush.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Book
  • Facebook
  • President Bush

• Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.

  

  George Eliot
  • Life is
  • Letter
  • Remove

• If I'm not going to be a starter, I'd like to have a chance to get in there and play a lot. That's what I'm doing now, and I feel like I'm contributing to the team. I'm just having fun being in the big leagues, for one. It's a different world up here.

  

  Adam Wainwright
  • Team
  • Play
  • Leagues

• We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Good
  • Nice
  • Dark

• For the source of the short story is usually lyrical. And all writers speak from, and speak to, emotions eternally the same in all of us: love, pity, terror do not show favorites or leave any of us out.

  

  Eudora Welty
  • Speak
  • Emotion
  • Pity

• ... wore sorrow and anger like a worn-out coat and would not throw it away.

  

  Belva Plain
  • Sorrow
  • Anger
  • Coat