Belva Plain Quotes
Such moods do not last unless the possessor of them is prepared to wither away, and Eve was not about to let herself wither.
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I've always enjoyed the teen angst thing. I had a lot of teen angst as I was growing up, so I think I have a lot to say about it through characters before I have to move on.
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He's got a great burst. He can be running, and he doesn't even put his hands up until the last second because he's got such confidence. Even though he's a shorter receiver, he's very much a downfield threat because of that.
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The good and wonderful thing about my whole career is that I've always felt that the audience, if I do it well, will track wherever I go, whether it's President or a lawyer or bad guy or good. All I have to do is execute the material enough where they buy into it. I've had the great luxury of the audiences accepting that.
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Is this your bedroom?" she asked, and turned to look at him. Myrnin straightened and jammed the big red floppy hat back on his head. The feathers waved back and forth. "Don't get any ideas," he said. "I'm far too young and innocent for that kind of thinking.
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Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring.
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My thought with harmonies and melodies in general, is that if it doesn't come right away then it's never going to come at all.
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An argument would have begun to steam and boil and sputter - and you know how arguments end. Even if I had convinced him that he was wrong, his pride would have made it difficult for him to back down and give in.
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I got my first break and became a singing waiter at eighteen or nineteen. I couldn't make a living at it. I quit. Then I got married and sold aluminum siding. My wife had problems physically. It was not good.
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The working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous.
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We try to make films for people [that are] the films that we'd like to see. They're not easy to get made. They're hard to get made. You have to keep the budget low to get them made. But at the end of the day, I don't really worry about competition, because I don't really think of it that way. I don't feel like I'm in a race with anybody.
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I honor the place within you where, when you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us.
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If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.
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The man who masters himself is delivered from the force that binds all creatures.
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I’m always intrigued by my nonsensical concern with picking out a bunch of things that look exactly alike the ones that somehow I feel are the best and belong to me. It’s that same crazy urge or superstition, or whatever it is, that makes me open a Bible in a hotel room, hoping for some great happenstance spiritual word of advice. More often than not, I hit a long passage of begats and begots, which contain little inspiration other than the fact that procreation is the highest aim of life.
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Death is so unpredictable, it just happens - so suddenly. Death doesn't differentiate between young or old. Be prepared.
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Your heart has to be prepared ahead of time through faith and prayer and grace and mercy and love and forgiveness so you can keep your heart open in hell, when hell happens.
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Such moods do not last unless the possessor of them is prepared to wither away, and Eve was not about to let herself wither.
