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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Everyone has a purpose in life and a unique talent to give to others. And when we blend this unique talent with service to others, we experience the ecstasy and exultation of own spirit, which is the ultimate goal of all goals.
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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 don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.
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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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I want to write songs and play them for people - live.
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I dream of a collaboration that would finally be total, in which the librettist would often think as a composer and the composer as a librettist.
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There are men who teach best by not teaching at all.
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I love the word 'dearth,' by the way. It's one of my favorite words.
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The more people learn about the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, the worse it looks.
