Becki Newton Quotes
I would say to an actor new to the business that it's best to go where you are most comfortable as a person, both in and outside of the business.
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I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn't have it for many decades. I'm always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.
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It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.
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I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.
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Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
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Be passionate. Be courageous. Be your best.
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I'm interested not just in projects that I'll be starring in, but producing film and TV that's really quality and great for adults; and when I say 'great for adults,' it doesn't mean without humor, because I'm also interested in doing comedy.
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People have these incredible expectations. So instead of being inspired by, say, Joni Mitchell's music, I look at it and say to myself, 'I'm going to quit - why would I think of writing or performing after listening to that?'
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When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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Women are wonderful, but they get so caught up about their body. We need to unhook from worrying so much. When I don't feel good, I look in the mirror and think I look fat and miserable. But when I feel good and whole, I'm not worried about my body because I'm living in it. It doesn't become an object.
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Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
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I like beautiful clothing. I love Bergdorfs.
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The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer's side of the partition.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
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I don't want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-community estimates should not become public in the way of this city and in the way of Congress.
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Corruption is not the sole test of your worthiness to form the government.
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In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
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Entrepreneurs bring to business... creativity.
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Irene Nemirovsky was a prolific writer punctiliously devoted to her craft.
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As a journalist, one tends to think there's nothing off limits.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'
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I would say to an actor new to the business that it's best to go where you are most comfortable as a person, both in and outside of the business.
