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Betty Carter Quotes

You can do anything you want to do, if you know what to do.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: May 16, 1930 - September 26, 1998

Topics

You Know Want Anything

Ray Aghayan told me to be more flamboyant, but I have to be me.

Me More Ray Flamboyant

Historically, there has been a bull market in commodities every 20 or 30 years.

Bull Years Bull Market Market Been

And then I went to visit my sister in the states and all of a sudden it was just like, it's like... it's like the movie Wizard of Oz when all of a sudden it changes from Black and White to glorious Technicolor.

Black And White Sister Black White

Creating fake facts does require a measure of haphazard research, insofar as they need to not just be possible, but also interesting.

Research Facts Fake Interesting Need

There's only one movie in my career I've had regrets with cutting it shorter, and I think some scenes maybe I shouldn't have cut.

Think Career Regrets Cut Only Some

It is a relatively small number of people who want to impose their will by the use of terror on the rest of civilization, who have got a program. It's not blind violence. It's with a purpose. They want to destroy the state of Israel. They want every westerner out of the Arab countries, Middle East and elsewhere.

Purpose People Small Rest Blind Out

I tend to play a lot of characters that are 10 or 15 years older than me.

Me Play Years Older Than Characters

I'm a huge fan of Toni Morrison. I just think she's so incredible. And also Nayyirah Waheed, who's a poet.

Amandla Stenberg

Think She Poet Just Fan Incredible

I believe that it is a whole lifetime of work on Shakespeare's part that enabled him to do what he did. But the question is how you can explain this whole lifetime in such a way to make it accessible and available to us, to me.

Stephen Greenblatt

Work Me Believe You I Believe Way

My grandmother's number-one rule was that once you start something, you don't quit. From a young age, she never let me give up on anything.

Age Me Start You Young Quit

What I think I've been able to do well over the years is play with pain, play with problems, play in all sorts of conditions.

Pain Problems Think Play Over Years

My purpose is to call on my colleagues, whether they're Republicans or Democrats, to get behind the agenda of trying to reform the government and make it work for the people rather than the other way around.

Work Purpose Government People Way

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