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 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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People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.
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I'm never really going to be the normal teenager.
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When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.
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I did not enter the industry to create a certain image. People happened to see me as the friend/sister/daughter next door. I like that association very much. It's close to what I am in real life. As for films, I just focus on the job.
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I cry all the time. Music makes me cry.
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If you're a plumber, you plumb. I'm an actor. I act.
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A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please.
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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.
