Susan Brooks (Susan Lynn Wiant Brooks) Quotes
A budget matters to Americans who can't afford to see their taxes go up or lose the jobs that would be destroyed in the process.
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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The transparency of a metaphor displays the glint of truth. But if a metaphor is taken for a reality, it then becomes dense and masks the truth it is meant to display.
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When I was living in New York, I had this slightly wannabe bohemian existence and took up painting, at which I'm appalling. I also bought several guitars.
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I thought, 'If you're going to be on TV, and if you're going to be out and glamorous, the natural look can stay at home.'
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I have an eight-year-old child, and I literally can't wrap my mind around the kind of grief that must be felt when you lose a child.
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Do the bishops seriously imagine that legalising gay marriage will result in thousands of parties to heterosexual marriages suddenly deciding to get divorced so they can marry a person of the same sex?
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When a girl uses six derogatory adjectives in her attempt to paint the portrait of the loved one, it means something. One may indicate a merely temporary tiff. Six is big stuff.
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I have the impression that every time I'm heartbroken, I leave a bit of myself behind. I am the believer. I go back and do the same mistakes over and over again and sign them proudly.
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There is a word in South Africa - Ubuntu - that describes his greatest gift: his recognition that we are all bound together in ways that can be invisible to the eye; that there is a oneness to humanity; that we achieve ourselves by sharing ourselves with others, and caring for those around us.
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You know, sometimes I'll go to an 8th-grade graduation and there's all that pomp and circumstance and gowns and flowers. And I think to myself, it's just 8th grade ... An 8th-grade education doesn't cut it today. Let's give them a handshake and tell them to get their butts back in the library!
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[Diversity] is the future. You can't stop it. It's going where it's going, so I choose to be with the future.
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Tomorrow is not a promise, but a chance.
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Who wants to die? Everything struggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there out of that grating. It gets no sun, and water only when it rains. It's growing out of sour earth. And it's strong because its hard struggle to live is making it strong. My children will be strong that way.
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Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.
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Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along.
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We have to have films about action and violence and special effects. That's the sad part, but you know what? It's not me doing it.
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In abortion they are trying to destroy the last bastion of the image of God.
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In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach, it is desirable, in order to break through that tyranny, that people should be eccentric.
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Prayer opens our lives for God so his will can be done in and through us, because in true prayer we habitually put ourselves into the attitude of willingness to do whatever God wills.
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If a man fights his adversaries, he's called determined. If a woman does it, she's frustrated.
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Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of response, occupying their minds while you wait for the extraordinary moment—that which they cannot anticipate.
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A budget matters to Americans who can't afford to see their taxes go up or lose the jobs that would be destroyed in the process.
