Beth Comstock Quotes
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'The Voice' was the first real job I've ever had that wasn't just messing around with music.
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I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.
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I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.
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My whole life is a theater piece.
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I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'
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I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.
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Anytime something eats too much of my life, I kill it.
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I know that my tendency is to be linear, and I'm trying to find ways to subvert that. And so in 'Bellocq's Ophelia' my device for subverting it was to tell the story and then to tell it again; it always circles back to this one moment, and it's not linear, but it's round in that way, and much of 'Native Guard' is like that.
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Bahrain is very dear to me.
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I think what happened during the Great Depression was that African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights but they became impatient for economic emancipation.
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Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.
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You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.
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In truth, we are all part of the team of humanity. And as such, we are all obligated to share ourselves, and our talents, for the sake of the team.
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My dream was to become a very small blonde movie star like Ida Lupino and those other women I saw up there on the screen during the Depression.
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As long as artists can make something, artists will continue to survive.
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Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is the one they would like to show to the world... Every so often what lies behind the facade is rare and more wonderful than the subject knows or dares to believe.
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Let's never try to get even with our enemies, because if we do we will hurt ourselves far more than we hurt them. Let's do as General Eisenhower does: let's never waste a minute thinking about people we don't like.
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Just because I have a guitar, it doesn't mean that changes me. I still rhyme, I still sing.
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The best thing about having a lady professor on campus is that it tells women students that they can do it, too.
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Remember that the person requesting your help may feel uncomfortable, so make sure to ask what the client really wants and how you can best help.
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We need to inspire and give each other confidence so that the work we do will be fruitful for the well-being of the people and the stability and security of the country.
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In big companies projects have to scale and Lean Startup help us to do it.
