Bette Lord Quotes
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Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There's a lot of waking up in the middle of the night going, 'Oh, I wish I had done that differently.'
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Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
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I don't really take a step back too often to see what's going on.
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From when I was young, I wanted to be an action hero. I always dreamed about being an action star. So finally, I made it.
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The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
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It's fascinating to see actors who do voiceovers every day.
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Go West, young man.
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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
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There's no story that breaks, including a five-alarm fire in Brooklyn, that I don't wish I were covering.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.
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I'm very punctual. I wish I could change this about myself because most people around me are not.
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I'm not familiar particularly with Hillary Clinton's neighborhood, but I wish people were a little bit more curious about what we call privilege and about why it's there. Black people in this country have no choice but to be curious. We have to know. I wish folks would do a little bit more investigation.
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Young writers should definitely research the current sounds and styles.
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I loved 'Monsoon Wedding' and 'Lunchbox' because they had 'real' stories. I wish there are more films made like them.
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Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.
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You see that it is not at all like Rodin... I share these only with you, don't show them.
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I've been doing my job well for 17 years. People must see something in me. Otherwise, I'd be over and out.
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Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.
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True refuge is that which allows us to be at home, at peace, to discover true happiness. The only thing that can give us true refuge is the awareness and love that is intrinsic to who we are. Ultimately, it's our own true nature.
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I try not to go to sleep with makeup, because I think it clogs your pores. I always wash my face with something that contains salicylic acid.
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Loneliness surrounds me without your arms around me.
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I believe that in the history of art and of thought there has always been at every living moment of culture a will to renewal. This is not the prerogative of the last decade only. All history is nothing but a succession of crises - of rupture, repudiation and resistance. When there is no crisis, there is stagnation, petrifaction and death. All thought, all art is aggressive.
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The young see what they wish to see. The old see what they do not wish.
