Bette Greene Quotes
I believe that love is better than hate. And that there is more nobility in building a chicken coop than in destroying a cathedral.
Quotes to Explore
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I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.
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Any form of art is political if you make it that way.
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If we are ever to halt climate change and conserve land, water and other resources, not to mention reduce animal suffering, we must celebrate Earth Day every day - at every meal.
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My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.
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You reach a point where you don't work for money.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.
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The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.
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As an actor, you're naked emotionally; you're revealing yourself emotionally.
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People appreciate when you make an effort to speak their language.
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There's always been a confusion about my sensibility. 'Is he kind of edgy, or is he Carol Burnett?' I'm a little bit of a hybrid. I like to please, but I like dark stuff, too.
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On the sets, Ali Zafar was extremely entertaining... he would just start singing out of the blue. It was just great!
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I think the best post-breakup album is The Strokes' first album. It's just fun.
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Sex appeal is a good thing for commercial cinema. Though I can't sit at home and consider myself a sex symbol, it is for people to do so. I want to be known as an interesting actor.
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Comedy and tragedy are two sides of the same coin. A talent in one area might also lead to a predisposition in the other.
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It is clear that while our Army was engaged in Afghanistan and Iraq, Russia studied U.S. capabilities and vulnerabilities and embarked on an ambitious and largely successful modernization effort.
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People's behaviour towards you changes when your films don't work. It's a painful period.
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The newborn infant is now seen to be wired with awesome precision... This marvelous robot will be launched into the world under the care of its parents... But to what extent does the wiring of the neurons, so undeniably encoded in the genes, preordain the directions that social development will follow?
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You can't get more glamorous than you are on 'Dancing with the Stars.'
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I know not which I prefer the look of—those who attack us or that which defends us!
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Sometimes it seems like we're all living in some kind of prison, and the crime is how much we all hate ourselves. It's good to get really dressed up once in a while and admit the truth - that when you really look closely, people are so strange and so complicated that they're actually beautiful. Possibly even me.
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I believe that love is better than hate. And that there is more nobility in building a chicken coop than in destroying a cathedral.
