Brian Sutton-Smith Quotes
Once upon a time, soft toys were for babies. Now they're taken for granted as a feature of adult life.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.
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Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinary because God, who created them, compensated for the deficiency of reason by the superiority of their senses.
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You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.
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There's no regrets for me.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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We need to fight to prove to people that it is possible to form an E.U. migration policy that is in line with the Hungarian national interest.
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If I'm not writing well, I'm not happy. If I'm not spending enough time with my family, I'm not happy. If I'm not connecting to friends or if I don't work out enough... You get the point. Everything has to be balanced. Nothing should be an extreme.
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I have a garden. We have fresh tomatoes and strawberries. People are different here... People out in California, they grow up quicker. They have a lot of excess, and they have a lot more things than we do here in Hungary. There, they start doing makeup when they're 13, when we would still be out in the countryside making sausage.
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You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.
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I think that for a child to be in a household... with a situation where the parents are not married, as in being one man and one woman, is not the best household for a child.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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I still have the dress I wore on the first date with my husband, which was more than 66 years ago. I still have it, and it still fits.
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Back in the '70s - I remember the '70s: we were told there was global cooling. And everyone was told global cooling was a really big problem. And then that faded.
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Years ago, I carved out an identity, and it has always been about having a voice to tell people about stuff I love.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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A lot of my writer friends - some of whom are brilliant - work when the Muse calls them, for lack of a better description. You know, days of nothing, then this creative burst where they write for 36 hours straight fueled by caffeine and idealism.
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I always say: To be well dressed you must be well naked.
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Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination.
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It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active.
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I'm not wild about the term first lady. I'd just like to be called Laura Bush.
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Ray had so much love of life and the music. He had so much integrity. He treated the music with so much dignity and respect. I spent four and a half years as a sideman with Ray Brown's trio. Music was his life, more so than anyone I could mention.
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People are born soft and weak. They die hard and stiff.
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Once upon a time, soft toys were for babies. Now they're taken for granted as a feature of adult life.
