Lyman Beecher Quotes
Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good character much faster than anyone can lie me out of it
Quotes to Explore
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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, 'That is the real thing.'
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It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
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Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe.
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Years ago, when I was writing westerns, other writers who were friends of mine wanted me to collaborate with them. And it just didn't work.
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I don't try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
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I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.
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Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
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Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
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When I was a kid, there was always food to be had on the street in Jerusalem, but anything above a falafel stand was mediocre or worse.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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When someone holds a knife to your throat it's easy to be scared. It's not hard to imagine what it would be like.
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I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.
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If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
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I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.
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I meet hundreds of people, and I'm not going to remember them. But every single one of them will remember their interaction with me.
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Sometimes I wonder why I'm not working at McDonald's and how come I have the life I have. I don't know. But I'm happy that I have these choices. That's kinda sappy, huh? But whatever, acting beats pumping gas.
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The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating.
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I think it's necessary to identify with anything - with any character you play, there's got to be something in common, so you can link up to that person, even if it's like one tiny thing. But it's equally fun to play somebody completely different, and trying to find what that thing is to make it.
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Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good character much faster than anyone can lie me out of it
