Janet Suzman Quotes
One tries to be an observer as an actor and indeed as a director because the small things, the give-away things are what are really interesting to a performer.
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There is one confrontation scene toward the end of the picture. In the middle of the scene, I thought, That's Sean Connery! I don't know how else to describe Sean Connery. I still feel that way.
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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I have an office full of product from brands trying to be in videos and an inbox full of songs from artists, but at the end of the day if the artist doesn't support the brand or it doesn't make sense for the song, then it will never work. What we do is try to pair them up so that both sides are happy.
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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.
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Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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The greatest danger of bombs is in the explosion of stupidity that they provoke.
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People sometimes mistake being serious with being taken seriously.
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I wear a lot of boyish stuff, but I prefer to throw a fur coat on top just for the hell of it.
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The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.
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Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.
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When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.
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Though men may be deep, mentally they are slow.
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If I had my druthers, I would be a brain in a jar, with a burlap skirt around the cart I'm on - I don't attend to my physical being much.
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I've played Beckett. I put on in the 1950s the first Australian production of 'Waiting for Godot.' I played Estragon. The most interesting conversation I've had about Beckett was with a Dublin taxi driver.
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I always follow the same idea: Start small and disrupt to create something big.
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I love heels, and as a size 36, I've accumulated a wall of amazing high heels from catwalk shows over the years where designers had to make especially small shoes. Tom Ford's golden versions are my favourite. I do, however, also live in my flat Saint Laurent Chelsea boots or Givenchy sneakers.
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When I don't have anything to say, I don't publish. Rather than posting something that's not very interesting, it's best to wait until you have something that really inspires you and makes you laugh.
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I think a firm grip helps you control the club and prevents it from turning in your hands. Another thing about feel is, if you make a change in your grip, it takes time for your brain to adapt.
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One tries to be an observer as an actor and indeed as a director because the small things, the give-away things are what are really interesting to a performer.
