Janet Suzman Quotes
My mother was very agnostic. She would never set foot in the synagogue, she couldn't be doing with it.
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So many boys and girls talk the same way, listen to the same music, look the same. If I'm out, I'll notice the person who looks different before I notice the person who's, 'really hot.'
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I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in 'The Bling Ring.' I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden.
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Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.
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On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.
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When I finished the trilogy of 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies, I had a gear shift and thought, 'I need to take a moment to smell the roses.'
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We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch sight of.
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Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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You don't get to the highest levels of the sport without having the basics in order.
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I don't think my parents would have let me go straight into acting full time when I was 12. I do like to have balance, naturally, as an individual.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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It is up to God to reveal a religion, but up to us to understand and realise it.
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I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.
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No doubt I enjoy being close to people in the way I dress, the way I speak, and the way I communicate with people.
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He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has.
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My family is heavily involved in the Marines and close-combat training, and I was raised doing Japanese sword training, so I've always been of the mentality that you have to be able to defend yourself.
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The Holocaust movie is almost a genre in itself these days.
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If you go back to all my albums, they're all confessional.
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Jazz is the art of thinking out loud.
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I was studying with Peter Carey, Colum McCann; but also, my fellow students were really critical readers for me.
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My mother couldn't take having three boys. She was extremely jumpy, to say the least. Any noise startled her. The sound of a pot dropping on the ground could make her hit the ceiling.
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My mother and my father have always supported me. Now in their eighties, they actually clamor onto the tour bus with me once or twice a year so they can watch the performances and hear the crowds. Traveling with eighty-something-year-olds on a tour bus... there has to be some sort of reality show in that.
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Mother was born about 1880, and died in 1984 at the age of 103.
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I think that having a job in journalism, despite all of the changes, is still a fantastic way to be - make a living observing your society and having a chance to use your voice.
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My mother was very agnostic. She would never set foot in the synagogue, she couldn't be doing with it.
