Beth Kephart Quotes
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I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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I'm Greek. My body produces feta cheese.
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I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.
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I was a home-schooled kid, living in the forest, and I didn't even have cable. I'm serious.
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Tick is a cartoon character, I don't know if you're familiar with him. This is the third step in his evolution. Comic book to cartoon to, now, live-action.
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Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
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My kids always say to me, 'Can we watch TV?' I say, 'Absolutely!' because then I can get something done. But then they say, and I wait for it, 'But can you watch with us?' My moment of freedom vanishes. So not only do I not think TV's that great and I hate sitting in front of it, but I have to with them.
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There are clearly many good politicians who are guided by religious belief, so the mix can work. But there's a line to be drawn. It would be hugely dangerous for a country's laws to be set by the scriptures, and particularly those of the expansionist religions.
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Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
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I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.
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My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me. After that, when I can't play Wimbledon, it was tough. For one month I was outside the world.
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If you feel like there's something out there that you're supposed to be doing, if you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it.
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I don't sit and write stand-up material; I come up with an idea onstage.
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What I value in books is lucidity. I want the language to be rich; I love lexical fireworks on the page, but I have to know what it means. I want to be surprised and delighted, not merely baffled.
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Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.
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I have to start with elements of myself, which is what you always do as an actor.
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I have a friend in New York who's a stylist and I went over to her place because she's got a lot of clothes. I basically ended up wearing most of it. So it's all stuff that I brought over.
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I figured, 'Why not go into entertainment?' I love entertaining people. I always loved being extra loud.
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Like the sacramental use of water and bread and wine, friendship takes what's common in human experience and turns it into something holy.
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A genuine love of learning is one of the two delinquencies which cause blindness and lead a young man to ruin.
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Having enough money has to go hand in hand with living in a way that you're not being a slave to your possessions.
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In high school, my desire for friendship far outweighed my talent for it.
