Susan Beth Pfeffer Quotes
Life catches you by surprise. It always does. But there's good mixed in with the bad. It's there. You just have to recognize it.
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But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.
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You can de-select the songs that you don't want to have on the record, but I hope we always put something out that has a lot of songs that the majority of people will love.
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I don't take fancy vacations. I buy all my jewelry at Claire's. I can't remember the last time I went out to a fancy dinner. My family lives in a modest two-bedroom apartment, and my kids share a bedroom. But I do have one extravagant vice: shoes.
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I've been very fortunate with my three spec scripts - which is sort of my thematic trilogy of the American Frontier. With 'Sicario', 'Hell or High Water' and then 'Wind River' - which is the third - there were no rewrites. It was the first draft for all three.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.
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I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.
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I don't know if it's because I'm Latina or something, but I have no problem speaking my mind.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.
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My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.
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As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
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Now, most of the new immigrants coming to this country are from Asia as opposed to Europe.
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I've fallen in love in my life a few times. It's the most exciting part of being alive - that I've experienced, anyway.
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People think that if they read something in the newspaper or see it on TV, it has to be true.
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A handkerchief can never be put in another pocket after it has been in one pocket. I don't walk under ladders. I have items of clothing that are lucky for me. That rotates, but I am luck-oriented.
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I was only the returned Oriental eccentric, drunk at that…
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My father would play Stevie Wonder in the car, but that never sunk in.
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I was the happiest kid ever, but I did choose to live around adults and today, now that I have a kid, I don't know if I would let him do it.
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Vietnam War brought the people together and made the '60s like they were. The youth were very unified against the status quo - against the old line and the new old line. It's the same exact thing today.
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We, Britain and Germany, can neither of us be happy about our handling of the Iraq war.
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The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents.
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Life catches you by surprise. It always does. But there's good mixed in with the bad. It's there. You just have to recognize it.
