Beth Revis Quotes
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I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.
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You look in my room and it looks neat enough, but if you dared to look under my bed or in my closet, oh what a mess!
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I have a pair of Rodarte leggings. They're crazy, but I wore them for one day, and then by the end of the day they weren't tearing, but they were getting a little loose.
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We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.
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I know there is pain when sawmills close and people lose jobs, but we have to make a choice. We need water and we need these forests.
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I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turn into confident ducks.
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It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.
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In the urgent aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001, with more attacks thought to be imminent, analysts wanted to use 'contact chaining' techniques to build what the NSA describes as network graphs of people who represented potential threats.
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I went in saying I wanted to be the food guy.
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The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.
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I have no problem with the security... It's something that must be done for the times in which we live. Safety first.
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And who (in time) knows whither we may ventThe treasure of our tongue? To what strange shoresThis gain of our best glory shall be sentT' enrich unknowing nations with our stores?What worlds in the yet unformed OccidentMay come refin'd with th' accents that are ours?
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I don't want to interview people for the purpose of developing a world view and pushing that on people.
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And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree.
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There have been more books alone written about Hamlet than have been written about the Bible.
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When I left Africa in 1966 it seemed to me to be a place that was developing, going in a particular direction, and I don't think that is the case now. And it's a place where people still kid themselves - you know, in a few years this will happen or that will happen. Well, it's not going to happen. It's never going to happen.
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All of the Rolling Stones' children are my children's best friends.
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No, like I said, my dad was never really part of the tennis. His involvement around what I did with the tennis and with my mom and my grandparents was really not a part of my life.
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There is something in me that makes me see things through.
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What really made me a performance artist was that I was able to step back and assess. I've always had [that ability], but it was coming to an understanding.
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The coming-of-age story has sort of become a joke. It's something to capitalize on, and that is painful because when you are coming of age - when you are going through something like that - the genre is so meaningful.
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Let's be real: It's just TV; it's just entertainment.
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My son died from cancer. My granddaughter died from cancer. I have a lot of reasons to think that reality is not a friendly neighborhood. And the stories that I tell distract me, and if I do the job right, they distract people from things that are happening to them that they wish had never happened.
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A leader doesn't make pawns - he makes people.
