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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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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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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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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May everyone live, And may everyone die. Hello, my love, And my love, Goodbye.
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That kind of divine discontent comes from observing customers and noticing that things can always be better.
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I think titles are extremely important for novels: They can set the tone, tip you off, serve as shorthand for what the essential contents are.
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I'm mainstream.
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Good laughs melt out of memory pretty quickly.
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I have to pay the bills just like everybody else, but it also pays my soul to work.
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.
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Government, not the oil industry, is the biggest 'profiteer' from oil. And it uses the tax revenue to expand its own authority at the expense of the individual, as it does with an endless number of other industries - including electric power, coal, lumber, pharmaceuticals, automobiles, aircraft, and agriculture. The Statist's intrusion to the free market is boundless.
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The future is beyond knowing, but the present is beyond belief.
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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.
