B. C. Forbes Quotes
Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.
Quotes to Explore
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If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
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I'm not a psychiatrist.
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I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.
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Cursive writing does not mean what I think it does.
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We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th.
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Without a doubt, I'd love to do Broadway. I actually can't wait to get back to musical theater.
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The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life.
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To be able to make decisions and see them come to fruition and feel the excitement around them, what it generates within the company, how the artists get motivated - that's the most rewarding part; feeling I can be a catalyst for an artistic experience for our artists and for the public.
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Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.
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So film music is something I absolutely wanna get involved in.
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I was working for a Swedish TV show - I'm Swedish - who basically did kind of spectacular stories. It was almost like CBS '60 Minutes,' but a Swedish version where we actually did travel quite a lot. After a while, I realized that travel is the most fun part of this, so why not do it for a longer time and just go off and explore?
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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If you are only big in China, you are only a local Chinese company.
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No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.
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I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.
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I am an avid runner, mainly on weekends.
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Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she's had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.
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I just miss - I miss being anonymous.
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It always helps me connect with characters, to think about what music they respond to.
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A couple times a year, I get in the car, and I'll drive 1,000 miles cross-country, going through side streets. I'll stay off the highways as much as possible. And I realize it's a huge country, and for us to be in so many places in the country is an amazing thing.
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Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.
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As long as we can imagine a better path, of course we are obligated to seek it. This is why unwarranted pessimism about our future is actually irresponsible.
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All connections are infused with dreams of what is possible in the future. Thus, when we lose something or someone important to us, we aren't just grieving the loss, we are grieving the shattered dream.
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Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.
