Bess Streeter Aldrich Quotes
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We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.
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My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
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My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.
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My goal is to make people feel passionately, if it's negative or positive, I did my job.
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God does arithmetic.
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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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I like to be entertained, not smothered with 'literary' riddles.
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My husband and I have been involved with foster youth since our early 20s. Right out of college and not yet married, we spent weekends mentoring a family of young girls.
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I never think I have to prove something.
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There is only one thing that gives me hope as a Republican, and that is the Democrats. It's going to be hard to do a worse job running American than the Republicans have, but if anybody can do it, it's the Democrats.
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Whether you're in a blockbuster or an art film, you have to be able to adapt.
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First of all, anybody who has lasted 30 and went through the 60's is really a survivor.
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It may be that the very qualities that help people get ahead are the ones that make them ill-suited for managing crises. It's hard to prepare for the worst when you think you're the best.
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Being a gossip reporter just isn't a respectable job. It'll chew you up and spit you out.
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At the outset, I think that one should be natural, not just when it comes to writing but in every area of life. If you try to be something that you are not just to impress others, then it's a rather sad life.
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I thought I was writing for a fairly hip, intelligent crowd; I just thought there were more of them out there. But they're not. They're not out there waiting. They're not gonna use their intelligence on your book.
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The events in the square, of course, made a deep impression on me and many other parents.
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In the fall of 1943 we brought home our second son, whom we named Alexander.
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I had to see and feel and be with the thing that I wanted to write about.
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The more revolutions occur, the less things change.
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Sometime in their lives, everybody wanted to go home.
