Beth Revis Quotes
Power was passion. That hunger - it was desire. A voracious need and longing to consume, to become one.
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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 was a home-schooled kid, living in the forest, and I didn't even have cable. I'm serious.
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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
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I cannot remember a time when the question of why people behave as they do was not intensely interesting to me. The desire to understand was very important. When I was young, I was aware of the fact that much of the time, the reasons a person gave for his actions were not the actual reasons.
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I'm a very restless person. I'm always doing something. The creative process never stops.
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But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.
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I was a very rotund child with short hair, and for some reason, I always had black ballet shoes. I was like the Wednesday Addams of ballet.
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I've worked in construction, in a factory sewing clothes. I also sold flowers and doughnuts - just odd jobs to try to make 10 pesos, which is equivalent to 20 cents.
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It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.
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Often the last thing I want to do is stand up in front of 50 cameras on the red carpet. I'd rather have a cup of hot milk and an early night.
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I learned American Sign Language in college and seemed to pick it up rather quickly. I really love to sign and wish that I had more friends to sign with.
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I worked with people like Edward Snowden. Well, not people who took stuff home.
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That's why, when Alias came along, I knew I'd be OK if the show was on for five or six years because the writing was so good and the creative team was so strong.
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Remember that an answer to a difficulty resides at a higher level than our usual thinking, so seek this loftier level.
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It was easy to hate if he did not think, Simon discovered.
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Children didn't shield families from eviction: They exposed them to it.
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The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually.
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The great problem with poisoning by Bitterness was that the passions - hatred, love, despair, enthusiasm, curiosity - also ceased to manifest themselves. After a while, the embittered person felt no desire at all. They lacked the will either to live or to die, that was the problem.
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It's so much better to desire than to have.... The moment of desire, when you know something is going to happen - that's the most exalting.
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I was confident about America and the idea that in America people can become American without masking their ethnic identity.
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I want to show people they don't have to be scared of being different.
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Power was passion. That hunger - it was desire. A voracious need and longing to consume, to become one.
