Beatrice Wood Quotes
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.
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The very important thing you should have is patience.
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The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
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You don't dream about things that are impossible; that are out of your range.
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The richer you are and the more financial advisers you employ, the less likelihood there is that you can ever discover what you are really worth.
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Disney's something to be a little alarmed about. It's not just a little theme park anymore. It's now an ethic and outlook and strategy that goes way beyond central Florida.
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What I observed about my fellow actors was that most gave up very easily.
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Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.
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I was fascinated with jeans, because you can impress your life upon the jeans you wear. The way you sit imprints on the jeans.
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Are you a Democrat because you're a union member? Then why, after eight years of Bill Clinton, does some Chinese guy in Guangdong province have your job?
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I really like boats. If you want to go somewhere, you just take your house with you.
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You know in the West they support realistic forces.
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Natural resources must be so distributed, by way of auction or otherwise, that they serve a larger public purpose.
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In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.
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You can't reorder any society from outside. You can help from within.
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I like the lasso of truth. There is something so beautiful about the fact that people have to tell the truth when they have the lasso around them. And it's not too violent.
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We collaborate with other countries on issues like public health and climate change because we understand these issues affect our collective welfare.
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... Take another glass of wine, and excuse my mentioning that society as a body does not expect one to be so strictly conscientious in emptying one's glass, as to turn it bottom upwards with the rim on one's nose.
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I'm attracted to playing things that I find difficult, just because it's a journey that is much more interesting.
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Most of the early part of an actor's career, you do the jobs you get.
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You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
