Beth Revis Quotes
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The government in Turkey, which represents the powerful, traditionalist mass, is very comfortable creating policies tailored only for their supporters.
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So now I don't have time to practice drums. It's been five years since I've touched the drums.
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Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
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I put Tabasco sauce over everything. Or I put it on pretty much anything that wouldn't taste gross - I mean, I wouldn't put it on salad, but I like it on fried chicken, nachos... a lot of stuff.
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Kids who don't have moms suffer a lifetime.
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I can do whatever I want.
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If you're throwing someone off a roof, you're throwing them off the roof. It's there. You don't have to do anything extra with that. The audience is obviously going to react to that because it's such a heightened thing to do. But in the other moments, you really look for ways to craft those, because they're more important, honestly.
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I read mails throughout the day but answer mails more in the morning and evening.
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What's so brave about being bald? I've not fought for my country or found the cure for cancer - I've just gone out without my hat on!
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I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.
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It's more fun if you can control things like lighting and make special effects in the darkroom.
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I really want to work for myself and build a business from nowhere.
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I was born in a family with a strong military background, so I chose to be a soldier.
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I have the support of my parents and my teachers. They made it very possible for me to go to a school that is open and supportive of me being gone at times and pursuing acting. But school always comes first for me.
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In order to defend the Chinese race, one must first defend the Confucian culture; and in order to defend the Confucian culture, one must first defend the State. This is because what preserves the race relies upon intelligence, which is in turn nurtured by Confucian education.
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If you look at 2009, why did the recovery happen? Recovery happened because somebody in the world's largest economy opened the tap: the U.S., followed by Europe and now Japan.
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I'm belligerent rather than ambitious.
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I have been very happy with my homes, but homes really are no more than the people who live in them.
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The older you get, the farther from the camera you need to be.
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I am merely a guest born in this world, to know the secrets that lie beyond it.
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I mean, people who watch Jon Stewart's show every night don't think he went far enough, because he couldn't do what he does on his show every night, because it's a different job. The same thing with Chris Rock. He can't come out and do a tossed-salad routine, the way he does on his HBO shows, because this is the Academy Awards.
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One night a friend lent me a book of short stories by Franz Kafka. I went back to the pension where I was staying and began to read The Metamorphosis. The first line almost knocked me off the bed. I was so surprised. The first line reads, “As Gregor Samsa awoke that morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. . . .” When I read the line I thought to myself that I didn’t know anyone was allowed to write things like that. If I had known, I would have started writing a long time ago. So I immediately started writing short stories.
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I am my age. I'm not making any effort to change it.
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This ship is built on secrets; it runs on secrets.
