Susan Blommaert Quotes
TV is an interesting business. You audition with a couple of little papers in your hand, and if you're lucky, you get to say those lines in the show. Then, once in a while, you get to do more.
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All I know is stars and hits, you know what I mean? I don't just sign a guy because he has a hot record. I sign a guy because he's a star. He's a pillar of the community.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of.
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I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.
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It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.
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My parents were just really weird and protective about the music I listened to. Whenever I wanted to buy an album, they would have to buy it first and listen to it and let me know if I could have it.
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I can't do chapped lips. If your lips are jacked up, Aquaphor is always a good go-to.
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The struggle is so great that the triumph over fascism alone is worth the sacrifice of our lives.
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I don't read as much as people may expect. In fact, sometimes I feel that I should probably read more, but then I do believe that one of the big problems of our times is that there's too much reading and not enough thinking.
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I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.
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Any government has to be friendly with investors and the business community. They provide jobs, new investments; they keep the country running.
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I like roles of people who can overcome things because there's strength in that and an arc - and roles where they start in one place, and toward the end of the script they end up in a completely different place, so you've seen this growth and some humanity in the role.
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I am always watching old films and trying to fill gaps in my knowledge.
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In track years... track is not like other sports. You do have track athletes that stay in this sport until, like, 35, 36, but I think when you get to 28, it's really difficult.
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I don't think playing a villain is my greatest talent.
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When I was put in a situation where I'm going there, you have to look at the team and the possibility that hey, we can probably do some good things over there.
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Even the gods cannot change destiny.
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If you're a fiction writer, though, I can tell you how to let people talk through you. Listen. Just be quiet, and listen. Let the character talk. Don't censor, don't control. Listen, and write.
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Every age hath its own problem, and every soul its particular aspiration. The remedy the world needeth in its present-day afflictions can never be the same as that which a subsequent age may require. Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and centre your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements.
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I did a film once in the Sahara. It was pretty awe-inspiring. I remember sitting up on the roof of our hotel, watching the sun go down, and all around me, for 360 degrees, was nothing but sand. It took your breath away but also made you feel tiny.
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I just want to make a tray of good tofu. If people want something else, they should go to the restaurants and shops.
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I went to some sports camps when I was really young and hated it. So I changed and went to camps where I could dance all morning and act all afternoon.
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TV is an interesting business. You audition with a couple of little papers in your hand, and if you're lucky, you get to say those lines in the show. Then, once in a while, you get to do more.
