Beth Henley Quotes

It's called Sisters of the Winter Madrigal. It was interesting for me to see it done after so many years; because I wrote it and I didn't realize what a rage I was in.

Beth Henley

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I think, so often, female cofounders are positioned in this competitive, catty way. It's just awful. It's not reality.

Jennifer Hyman

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My high school experience was kind of like 'Mean Girls.' It was very much like a bad B movie. 'This is where the jocks sit, and this is where the cheerleaders sit.' And I never really fit in. I guess I was sort of a theatre geek, but the activity that I was most invested in was speech and debate.

Andie MacDowell

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If you don't get out of the box you've been raised in, you won't understand how much bigger the world is.

Angelina Jolie

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It is among the evils of slavery that it taints the very sources of moral principle. It establishes false estimates of virtue and vice: for what can be more false and heartless than this doctrine which makes the first and holiest rights of humanity to depend upon the color of the skin?

John Quincy Adams

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I've been a little bit obsessed with religion, without being a religious person, for about a decade.

Tom Perrotta

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Every now and then, Prince decides to try being a normal rock star. You know, the kind who does a professional arena tour where he plays the hits. But part of what makes him such an eternally fascinating star is that he lives in his own private purple world, even when he sets out to make the house quake.

Rob Sheffield

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I don't have any dark desires. And I think most people don't. A few have dark desires and don't sublimate them.

Ruth Rendell

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My mom pushed me to take drama class.

Michael Steger

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We live in a visual world now.

Diogo Morgado

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Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty intelligence, but also of the most unevolved mentality; in one place there is a highly developed and complex civilisation, in another a crude and simple polity.

Annie Besant

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Katniss Everdeen owes her last name to Bathsheba Everdene, the lead character in 'Far From the Madding Crowd.' The two are very different, but both struggle with knowing their hearts.

Suzanne Collins

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I see people sometimes who remind me of my narrators.

Lydia Davis

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