Bette Greene Quotes
Look inside yourself and you'll find a world of things (a world of your own experiences)worth writing about.
Quotes to Explore
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I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
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Hot girls have so many options. Sitting at home alone any night of the week and searching the Internet for a dude is on zero hot girls' agendas. So they're definitely not coming after you.
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Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.
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I did not want to go out at 5:30 in the morning with my stocking cap and my navy pea coat on and shoot lines and grades for the rest of my life.
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In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination - and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past - are real and must be addressed.
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Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.
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I just feel energized when I am around young, talented people. There is something about these kids that's amazing. I learn as much from them as they do from me.
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Honesty is wonderful, but I suspect it's also overrated.
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Lizz Wright is my favourite singer. Her voice moves me and takes me to another place. She also grows her own food, and that inspires me.
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The interpretation of dreams is a great art.
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I think it's actually a misperception that I am a comedic actress. I do more drama than comedy but very little of it has been seen. When you are in big funny movies and they do well and your little part in it kind of explodes people perceive you as a comedian.
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When the fearsome foursome of rock music, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Richard, and Jerry Lee Lewis, decided to show up in Toronto for a rock and roll festival, I knew we had to go there to try to get them all on film.
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I was free when I was 12 because I got my first skateboard. I've been free ever since.
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Our life is full of empty space.
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I thought I had gotten second, but I didn't, so I was really happy.
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Doing something that is productive is a great way to alleviate emotional stress. Get your mind doing something that is productive.
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I'm not very materialistic - I don't have a whole lot of stuff. But I do always like a pair of really weird socks.
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You do learn how to cope from those who are coping.
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I love to see people laugh and I love it more if I can make them laugh.
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He was so tenacious he defied the distraction of women by refusing to have them in his presence, just as later in life he denied his blindness by calling for more and more candles.
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I just need to go to like an island or something.
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There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.
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If you read the first page of one of my novels, I can guarantee that you will read the last one. This isn't just social commentary. This is also about writing good page-turners. I want people to keep reading.
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Look inside yourself and you'll find a world of things (a world of your own experiences)worth writing about.
