Beth Broderick Quotes

I was a total nerd growing up. I'd rather sit home and read a novel on New Year's Eve and say, 'Wow, I read the whole thing in one night!' That was my idea of a big time.

Beth Broderick

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 24, 1959

Topics

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I think good acting results when working together in a comfortable environment.

Ji Chang-wook

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My priority is to give the United States the kind of influence it should have.

John Bolton

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Nadal is one of the great champions - a class act.

John McEnroe

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Making people laugh is so much more difficult than making them sad. Too much fiction defaults to the somber, the tragic. This is because sad endings are easy in comparison - happy endings aren't at all simple to earn, especially when writing to an audience jaded by them.

Stephen Graham Jones

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If you compromise what you're trying to do just a little bit, you'll end up compromising a little more the next day or the next week, and when you lift your head you're suddenly really far away from where you're trying to go.

Spike Jonze

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People fight, they get angry, they do drugs, and they do crazy things.

Steven Adler

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Nobody wants any country to have nuclear weapons.

Mohamed ElBaradei

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Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed.

Joseph Butler

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The things worth writing about, and the things worth reading about, are the things that feel almost beyond description at the start and are, because of that, frightening.

Douglas Coupland

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I think people are more apt to believe photographs, especially if it's something fantastic. They're willing to be more gullible. Sometimes they want fantasy.

Cindy Sherman

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The fashion industry may persist to label me as 'plus-size,' but I like to think of it as 'my size.'

Ashley Graham

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Today, I defined 'sentimental' to myself as a feeling about the idea of a feeling.

Sheila Heti

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