Bebe Moore Campbell Quotes
I would get up at 3 in the morning and write. Or sometimes I would write at midnight. Or I would write when my child napped. It wasn't a burden. I was so enthused about what I was doing at the time that I really didn't mind.
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M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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I have always battled injustice. As a child, I used to fight on the side of my friends when boys terrorized them.
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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Job-wise, I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago, but I hate when people vomit.
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Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.
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The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.
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The grandeur of Jerusalem is also... its problem.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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Women are the strong people in this world, not men. I think TV is finally catching up with that reality, and thank God.
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Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.
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To me, success is choice and opportunity.
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I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view.
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I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know.
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No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.
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The research needed for social practice can best be characterized as research for social management or social engineering. It is a type of action research, a comparative research of the conditions and effects of various forms of social action, and research leading to social action. Research that produces nothing but books will not suffice.
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Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century.
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I do, I do!. There were songs like Ryan Adams' song 'Come Pick Me Up' that was sort of part of the writing. The Patty Griffin song 'Long Ride Home' you just try and earn with your script. Most great songs are their own movie without your help. So you just try to earn them really.
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I would get up at 3 in the morning and write. Or sometimes I would write at midnight. Or I would write when my child napped. It wasn't a burden. I was so enthused about what I was doing at the time that I really didn't mind.
