Beth Kephart Quotes
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Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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There's a different energy with a female director, a female at the head of the production. I don't prefer one over the other, but they're definitely different experiences, and I would love to have more of them.
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My mum always liked poetry, and she had pictures on the wall, so there was this visual stuff around.
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I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
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Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it.
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Don't be too proud to take lessons. I'm not.
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It doesn't matter if people perceive me as being a little strange. I think overall, even when I am on stage, when people see me, I am setting an example.
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I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.
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America faces a new race that has awakened.
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I sense that by writing both books and television, I've become better at each.
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I strongly believe that crossing the aisle for the good of the American people is more important than party politics.
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All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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I went to boarding school from the age of eight - first to prep school, then to Eton. One thing that kind of education teaches you is community living: there's little retreat. That's why people come out of it and talk about lifelong friendships forged in the furnace.
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Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are.
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When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11.
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You're able to do things in novels: introduce subplots, other characters, thematic layers and so on, in a way that you simply can't in a movie. A movie really has to choose its battles.
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My biggest complaint with tights is that they do not accommodate skinny-ankled people like myself.
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I don't know anyone who's suffered lung cancer.
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When I'm 80 years old, I don't know what I want to be remembered for.
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At first, before you meet her, you're like, 'I'm gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I'm talking to Angelina Jolie!' And then, within a matter of five minutes, you're like, 'Oh, I'm just talking to my director,' and it's just back to work. She really is all about the work. She's so surprisingly down-to-earth.
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Technology at its finest is easy to adopt, quick to implement, and bound to be underappreciated.
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You have to know your subject. You have to know what cannot be forgotten.
