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 really love roller coasters because I feel like they're filled with germs and make me nauseous.
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Russian efforts and the direct efforts of ...(Russian special envoy) Viktor Chernomyrdin have not found the understanding and proper support of NATO leadership
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Distrust those in whom the desire to punish is strong.
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I shall despair. There is no creature loves me; And if I die no soul will pity me: And wherefore should they, since that I myself Find in myself no pity to myself?
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The longer I work in nutrition, the more convinced I become that for the healthy person all foods should be delicious.
