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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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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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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I think the media can definitely show more diversity - different sizes of women, different colours of women, just more diversity in general.
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Thanks to social media such as Facebook and Twitter, a far wider range of people take part in gathering, filtering and distributing news.
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Some directors were brilliant in the silent era but never felt at home in sound. It's like a sculptor being forced to take up painting.
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If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. That's why I play. If I made it in New York, you can make it anywhere.
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The sense in which an automatic door 'understands instructions' from its photoelectric cell is not at all the sense in which I understand English.
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Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.
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Ultimately, I made my range wider because I wanted to suit each publication that I worked for. Talk about reinvention - I'm like the Madonna of photography.
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I don't like feeling full when I start a game, so that's why I have a bigger meal in morning or four hours before game.
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A leader doesn't make pawns - he makes people.
