B. C. Forbes Quotes
Are you doing the kind of work you were built for, so that you can expect to be able to do very large amounts of that kind and thrive under it? Or are you doing a kind of which you can do comparatively little.
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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
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Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
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Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
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I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
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One of two historically African American communities that sprang up along the Mississippi Gulf Coast after emancipation, North Gulfport has always been a place where residents have had fewer civic resources than those extended to other outlying communities.
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.
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The name of the Redskins will remain the Redskins.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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You're able to do things in novels: introduce subplots, other characters, thematic layers and so on, in a way that you simply can't in a movie. A movie really has to choose its battles.
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Netflix is something I watch.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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I'm a television junkie.
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There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
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On my first trip to New York in the 1980s, the first place I wanted to visit was the Plaza Hotel, home to Kay Thompson's Eloise.
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From a social point of view, it's beneficial that homeownership encourages commitment to a given town or city. But, from an economic point of view, it's good for people to be able to leave places where there's less work and move to places where there's more.
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Maui reminded me of San Diego: beautiful, but crowded.
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It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend men.
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As much as "The Lobster" feels like a world we recognize but not the world we live in, it's all drawn in an allegorical way from all the systems that exist.
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Are you doing the kind of work you were built for, so that you can expect to be able to do very large amounts of that kind and thrive under it? Or are you doing a kind of which you can do comparatively little.
