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 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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Like wars, forest fires and bad marriages, really stupid laws are much easier to begin than they are to end.
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Belief is such an important aspect of sport.
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I love the Internet, and I love wasting time on the Internet - even though it sometimes ends up being not being a waste of time.
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When I spent time with my father, it wasn't playing ball in the back yard. I came to his office and listened to him do business or sat in on meetings. I walked job sites. On Saturday, we'd see my grandfather in Queens for a couple hours, and then he'd say, 'Let's go collect rent!'
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Writing can be a lonely business. But gradually your characters, or the scenes and peopl from your past, begin to rise up around you, and you find yourself writing your way out of loneliness, writing into your own company.
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My father wanted me to be a dentist like him, or any doctor, really. There was this attitude of, 'The civil rights movement was not about you being an artist.'
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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.
