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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It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits.
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To me, the pinnacle of my career is writing for youth. I can die happy: I have succeeded in doing what I have always wanted to do.
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I wanted to be a writer, but the idea of writing novels or movies seemed really intimidating. I never got more than a few pages into one.
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Back when we started, people didn't even know what a submarine sandwich was. The product was only sold in a few markets.
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What we assert, very often can become our reality. To some degree, everybody can try to shape and control their fate. Everybody picks an identity.
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It's not necessary that every film has to hit Rs 100 crore box office, or the Rs 50 crore budget. If the film makes double of its project budget, we consider that a hit, and that also means that the film is in profit.
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Writing is always a solitary experience, but living, if you're lucky, is not.
