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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When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.
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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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If I have the TV on, it's either a Mets game or 'SportsCenter.'
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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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The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.
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In the temple of science are many mansions, and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led them thither. Many take to science out of a joyful sense of superior intellectual power; science is their own special sport to which they look for vivid experience and the satisfaction of ambition; many others are to be found in the temple who have offered the products of their brains on this altar for purely utilitarian purposes.
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When you pump up your exercise, it makes you feel better and makes you look better, so you do a better job. It's mental, too.
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In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.
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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.
