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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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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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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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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My dad and I used to watch 'Ninja Warrior' all the time back when it was in Japan. I would always say, 'I could do that,' kind of joking, but obviously kind of serious.
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It's always great to visit Taranaki; it's beautiful, and I've caught some great waves there.
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Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well.
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For if the honour paid to Him is shared by others, He altogether ceases to be worshipped, since His religion requires us to believe that He is the one and only God.
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If you just work on that one thing that's, like, important to you, that has been supportive of you, who has been loving you all this time, if you are able to see that, then that is your 'best love'.
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Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness and to avoid misery in this world - and there clearly are - then there are right and wrong answers to questions of morality.
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I was a shy child, and when I was 13, I started wearing braces on my teeth. I used to be acutely self-conscious, and I think writing was a way of withdrawing into my own imagination.
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We went to church twice a week. My parents were employed in ministry; we prayed before dinner. We rollerbladed in the summer. We were allowed to watch the 'Simpsons.' I fought with my younger brother over Legos.
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I enjoy trying to figure out the best way to compliment the picture and not overpower it.
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There's nothing more important than a good story.
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In the first two episodes, before she becomes Queen, I could be a lot freer with my emotions, but as the series goes on, she develops an armour in order to cope with her circumstances. She has to be a sphinx, which must be so hard. Imagine never being able to shout, 'Shut up,' or cry, even in front of your own family.
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And you know, I always wanted to work in a delicatessen just so that a woman would come in one day and ask me to give her some tongue. And I'd say 'Well, I don't get off 'till four o'clock.' And she'd say 'Well, I don't get off at all. That's why I'm looking for some tongue!'
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My mother was very agnostic. She would never set foot in the synagogue, she couldn't be doing with it.
