Beth Revis Quotes
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I don't like comedians who don't have conviction, and with stand-up, it is always best to have an angle.
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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Modern surgery has been like a miracle to those who thought the pain was going to go on forever.
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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I do go into things thinking, 'Right. I'm going to enjoy this.'
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We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
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Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.
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If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.
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On 'Paranormal Activity,' it worked to my advantage not to have much of a crew, but on a bigger movie, where you have to work with a larger group of people who basically become your second family for a few months, it can be a great experience. Even though all of my projects are small scale compared to most Hollywood productions.
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The Alanis Morissette tour, everybody thinks that was all sitting around, lighting candles and talking intelligently about synergy and big words. That band was so gnarly. We were such scumbags. Alanis had no idea. We were like Van Halen.
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Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.
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I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.
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You know you can get gaudy with something, and they didn't do that. To me, I think it's very tasteful, well done, with the silver and gold and the engraving. I think it's very tasteful.
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I wish I wasn't so in love, wasn't so interested, in the Internet. I wish I spent less time online and more time outside and in my head. Writing requires solitude and deep, deep daydreaming, and the Internet just kills that - its lure is toward the external; it asks you to flit from place to place.
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My awkward stage extended well into high school.
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We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?
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Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.
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As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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When I started out, the idea of comfort in shoes was almost a dirty word.
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I have never liked the 'Been there done that' thing... You hear that all the time from people, and I think it's just based on pure insecurity... Each person is going to have their own unique take on something.
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Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If it's a woman, she's 'spilling her guts,' and it's not art.
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This is... mating, it's not love.
