Betty Rollin Quotes
On her mastectomy: Pity is delicious. I was crazy about the pity I got. It was the best kind, too. I did not get, nor did I want, the drooling, mewing kind. I preferred something more restrained but deep-felt. Quality pity.
Quotes to Explore
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I remember going up and doing 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' with Paul Simon, Santana playing up there with us.
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Bollywood is huge. Anything that's made in large quantity will evidently overshadow others. But that won't stop artistes from making albums. A person who has faith in his music will go ahead.
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I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.
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I would really like to play someone contemporary, as I've done lots of period pieces. I would love to play an American bimbo or a grimy Londoner. But I'm probably more suited in people's minds to playing a corseted victim.
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I will try to make a doll of Oksana with a little dog.
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Chi non esce dal suo paese, vive pieno di pregiudizi.
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The deadliest Pharisaism today is not hypocrisy, but unconscious unreality.
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Let me put it in a positive light, with that archive [of Anne Romaine], we have gained extensive knowledge about how [Alex] Haley and Malcolm X actually worked and how the book, the autobiography, was constructed.
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I have a dream that America will pray and God will forgive us our sins.
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You are fortunate if you have learned the difference between temporary defeat and failure, more fortunate still if you have learned the truth that the very seed of success is dormant in every defeat that you experience.
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Not that the Red Indian will ever possess the broad lands of America. At least I presume not. But his ghost will.
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I am painting with the same enthusiasm as a Marseillaise eats bouillabaisse ... I am painting big sunflowers.
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Seek truth while you are young, for if you do not, it will later escape your grasp.
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I don't like reading music. It's like learning a language. You can't read music proficiently overnight. It takes time, it's boring work.
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Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering — that is a fact.
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Found one of my old journals. from right around the time we were heading out on tour with NFG in the UK early 2008. i started reading it and couldn't help but cry a little bit. cause that person was really confused. and very lost. and as it went on, the person behind the pen seemed to get a little bit stronger.. that part felt good. it was the reminder that i needed that right now i'm as strong as ever. there really isn't a point to telling you all of this. except maybe i want to thank you. cause you are a constant reminder. that i'm not as lost as i once was.
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A tranquil woman can go on sewing longer than an angry man can go on fuming.
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There are no limits to the amount of love and wisdom one can take to Heaven.
