Beth Harbison Quotes
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
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Brunch, for me, is an extended breakfast that should be enjoyed whenever you have time properly to engage in cooking and eating.
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I had a career that was very short, but it had a lot of thrills.
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My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.
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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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I can be a bit extreme. I'll spend too much time running round the park, doing yoga and drinking green tea. I can get a bit obsessive. I have to rein it in sometimes.
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I think it's very important to have a public discussion about why we're denying our soldiers the ability to exercise their Second Amendment rights.
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The way management treats associates is exactly how the associates will treat the customers.
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I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
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The biggest challenge for me has been in coping with my perfectionism. I have a stiflingly hard time moving forward in a project if it's not 'just right' all along the way. The trap I so easily fall into is rewriting and rewriting the same scenes over and over to make them perfect, instead of continuing on into the wild unknown of the story.
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It's too many questions about what I'm going to do, why I'm retiring, and this and that. So I answer the same question, I don't know, a thousand times.
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When you're creating a fragrance, you're always thinking about what you want that first smell to be, that first reaction. It's a sensation, like a symphony with all of those layers and notes. I love the way it changes and the way it dries down. The fun thing about scent is that it's unique to everyone; pheromones take on a new scent.
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I'm a proud Welshman.
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I love nothing more than a good, rich, dark chocolate. It exhilarates. It satisfies.
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As consumers, we are faced with hundreds of choices - and when it comes to books, thousands of choices.
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They lived under a just and moderate government, and they admitted that one bond of their fidelity was that their rulers were the better men.
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We embrace the idea -- advanced by both ancient philosophers and modern physicists -- that the world is one. Everything connects to everything; therefore, as we change, the world cannot but change with us.
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'Macbeth' is one of the best operas ever, and doing it was a great experience. I added some things to the opera based from my experience on the movie - such as some of the special effects and bits of film - to make it new and interesting. It was a very good work and a very good experience.
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It's a dangerous game to write a song for a person you don't know. It feels disingenuous.
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We can live with lots of things, but we can't live without imagination, we can't live without hope.
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Writing is always a solitary experience, but living, if you're lucky, is not.
