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.

  

  Fat Joe
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• In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.

  

  Jackie Cooper
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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.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
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• I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.

  

  Carla Gugino
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• It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.

  

  Laura Wade
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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.

  

  Dane DeHaan
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• I can't do chapped lips. If your lips are jacked up, Aquaphor is always a good go-to.

  

  Zendaya
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• The struggle is so great that the triumph over fascism alone is worth the sacrifice of our lives.

  

  Federica Montseny
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  • Alone
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• I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.

  

  Taylor Swift
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  • Smart
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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.

  

  Naguib Sawiris
  • Country
  • Business
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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.

  

  Olivia d'Abo
  • People
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• I am always watching old films and trying to fill gaps in my knowledge.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • 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.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Think
  • Sports
  • Difficult

• I don't think playing a villain is my greatest talent.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Think
  • Talent
  • Greatest

• 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.

  

  Latrell Sprewell
  • Good
  • Team
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• Even the gods cannot change destiny.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • Destiny

• Like wars, forest fires and bad marriages, really stupid laws are much easier to begin than they are to end.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • Bad
  • Stupid
  • Forest

• When my grandfather was born, there was no healthcare. There were no airplanes. There were no boats. There were no trains. There were no communications. No Internet. No widespread knowledge. It will be a completely different world but a much better place in a hundred years.

  

  Jamie Dimon
  • World
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• What I learned, a little too late, was that the 'traditional' Martin Short target viewer weighs under 300 pounds. Unfortunately, I was on during daytime.

  

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• I am very proud of the fact that I get to go out there every day and train in order to represent the Mexican people, and I can only hope they look up to me in a similar fashion.

  

  Victor Ortiz
  • People
  • Up
  • Hope

• When I was young, clothes were really just about what fit, because Ashley and I were so tiny. So I understood fit before I understood style.

  

  Mary-Kate Olsen
  • Style

• I have my fashion empire to build.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Fashion
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• I love to stay at home and write.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Love
  • Home
  • Write

• 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.

  

  Susan Blommaert
  • Business
  • Show
  • Audition