Frances Beinecke Quotes
The more people learn about the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, the worse it looks.
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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When I was growing up, we never had much money. My parents were divorced young, but I was always surrounded by loving individuals. They couldn't give us riches, but they gave us their stories, their hearts, and their time.
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After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.
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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.
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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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All of world's eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether and cannot be explained in words.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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I think we should all call ourselves feminists.
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It has not been easy to wake up every single day at 6:30 in the morning to then head to the gym and start a full day of work. But you have to have that kind of dedication if you want to achieve the goals you have set for yourself.
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I think the key to a great romcom is to not fight against the genre. The trend more recently has been to apologise or be snarky, so it's an anti-romcom. Just lean in and embrace the fact it's a love story, and it's funny, and it's light. It can still be uber-smart and deal with zeitgeist issues.
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I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
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Having a couple really great basics makes it easy to dress well every day.
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I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.
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I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
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And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.
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For years I've been hearing 20-somethings say they don't expect Social Security to be around when they hit 65. Eventually, I came to realize that they really mean that they just don't expect to be 65. Or 40. Neither did I, when I was 22.
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Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.
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When you have a celebrity who is willing to shine his personal spotlight on the non-profit and can also speak articulately about the mission, that's really the best of both worlds.
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I'd like to avoid the environmental apocalypse if I could. Zombies, robots - I don't know - I'd probably do alright hidden in the middle of the herd and sacrificing people to keep myself alive, but where you gonna hide when all the food is gone?
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The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.
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There are one or two very good women military historians who use imagination, great study and research; they can put themselves in the boots of the soldier.
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What frightens me and worries me is that these weeks are taken advantage of for the purpose of conflict rather than for consolidation.
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The more people learn about the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, the worse it looks.
