Beth Revis Quotes
I bet when Eldest posed for his portrait, he was reveling in the one thing I can’t stand about life aboard the ship: the perfect evenness of everything.
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It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
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I don't run after successful directors. I give importance to the content of the film.
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I miss submitting people; I have a lot of confidence in my jiu-jitsu.
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Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on every word, and I felt very uncomfortable a lot of times.
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The funniest line in English is 'Get it?' When you say that, everyone chortles.
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The music of the Clovers and Spaniels and the rest was like candy to me. I couldn't get enough; my teachers probably thought I had attention deficit disorder.
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If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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Fortunately for me I was able to do well here, and it really did great things for my career and now hopefully I can go out there and continue to do what I did.
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Empty values statements create cynical and dispirited employees, alienate customers, and undermine managerial credibility.
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We are very private, so we decided from early on that we will keep the press and editors and everybody out of our house.
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If you want to run as fast as the men, you've got to train like the men.
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.
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I'd never been around or seen a black showrunner, and in some ways you wish that it wasn't a big deal.
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Too little attention is paid to the dark side of incentives. They are anything but a magic bullet. Psychologists have known this for years, but it seems largely hidden from the world of commerce.
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Socially, the Cuban revolution created an education system and health service that remain the envy of much of the neo-liberal world.
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My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.
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Faust klagt über die zwei Seelen in seiner Brust; ich beherberge aber eine ganze Menge, die sich zanken. Es geht da zu wie in einer Republik... Das meiste, was sie sagen, teile ich mit. Es sind da aber auch ganze Provinzen, in die ich nie einen andern Menschen werde hineinsehen lassen.
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The real trouble with the writing game is that no general rule can be worked out for uniform guidance, and this applies to sales as well as to writing.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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I sometimes think if I had gone to Oxford or Cambridge and looked like a handsome young guy who could be in an Evelyn Waugh novel or something, I'd be a massive movie star. But there's a longevity to what I do. It's more reliable. Someone isn't deciding that I'm the next big thing.
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I need to find the right guy and the right family. The day I find something worth my while, I will get married and have kids, too.
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I bet when Eldest posed for his portrait, he was reveling in the one thing I can’t stand about life aboard the ship: the perfect evenness of everything.
