Susan Barker Quotes
I wrote in coffee shops in Japan when I was 22, 23, before I had the stamina to sit down and write. I liked the buzzy environment; I couldn't speak Japanese when I arrived, so it was kind of a white noise. It felt more sociable than being alone, but now, as I've developed a writing practice, I couldn't do it.

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I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
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Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
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There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
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I did do some Shakespeare on film, it's really difficult. It's really interesting, because I was doing a series in Canada called 'Slings and Arrows' and it was about a company based around the Stratford Festival.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
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I don't see why OPEC countries should continue to cut production just to keep the price of oil high. This will not affect the industrial countries alone, it will also hit poor countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Who will look after them?
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I did not think I would be able to do myself justice if I had to speak to the players in English. I would not be able to get my emotions and feelings across.
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And he said that he didn't want to have a war or anything like that again.
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I don't think I've ever been haunted by a ghost, but I always joke with my fiance about the house we're living in right now. It seems to have something in it.
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Unemployment determination in a modern economy was the main subject area of my research from the mid-1960s to the end of the 1970s and again from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s.
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Work hard. And have patience. Because no matter who you are, you're going to get hurt in your career and you have to be patient to get through the injuries.
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I never looked at people or singing as commodities.
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Forgiveness is not to give the other person peace. Forgiveness is for you. Take that opportunity.
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If journalism is the first draft of history, then talk radio provides an early glimpse into how the meaning of political events will be spun for ideological and partisan purposes.
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Every time Wimbledon is on, I am thinking, 'Yes, I could do the same and get out the racket.' Sadly, not the same results.
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No brain at all, some of them [people], only grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake, and they don't Think.
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If there's one man in the world who could play two men, it would be Tiger. In my mind, Furyk is going to play.
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How am I going to live today to create the tomorrow I've committed to?
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We know as filmmakers where you draw the line.
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Screens can work wirelessly and run on the amount of power supplied from a small solar panel and room light.
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I wrote in coffee shops in Japan when I was 22, 23, before I had the stamina to sit down and write. I liked the buzzy environment; I couldn't speak Japanese when I arrived, so it was kind of a white noise. It felt more sociable than being alone, but now, as I've developed a writing practice, I couldn't do it.