Susan Burton Quotes
Most incarcerated women have stories that are similar to mine. They suffered great trauma as children.
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When I was going through puberty, I had all these feelings of being unstable through those years, and being uncontrollably drawn to things of beauty and things that are bad.
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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'Trolls' was a blank slate - there was no world, no mythology. We talked a lot about the Grinch and we liked how they showed his heart growing, but how do you show a photographable device like that for the Bergens? We ended up using color for a lot of that: desaturating and then pulling the saturation up.
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I don't do things that are illegal.
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Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
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I spent 19 years as a Washington reporter covering a variety of beats.
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That is the most stupid thing yet. I tell you that I could despair of human intelligence when I see what can exist in men’s minds.
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I used to think the secret to a happy ending was to bring down the curtain at the exact right time. A moment after happiness, then everything's all wrong, again.
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Everything in moderation, with occasional excess - Ghost Rider (2002)
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I had a very simple life growing up in the farm country outside of Perugia, and biscotti and warm milk with a tiny bit of coffee were a big part of my morning ritual before walking to school.
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Between them, my parents had 10 marriages.
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Something different happens to my brain when I put pen to paper: the pace of writing or drawing slows you down and gives you more time for thoughts to come in.
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I am an average mother in almost every way, so yes, much to my regret, I do yell at my children.
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Maine people have a live-and-let-live philosophy, and tend to be fair and open-minded.
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I do tend to lose track since the kids are out of school.
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Ignore Trump's tweets. Yes, it's unrealistic. But we would all be better off if the media reported them more rarely, reacted to them less strongly, and treated them with less alarm and more bemusement.
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Rawness and refinement are not opposite ends of a luxurious spectrum... they are two complementary features with which to populate a luxe environment.
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There's a lot of power and responsibility that comes with owning who you are as a woman.
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The thing is, however strange it may seem, that the interests of the United States and of the Russian Federation do coincide sometimes.
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We have a moral responsibility to protect the earth and ensure that our children and grandchildren have a healthy and sustainable environment in which to live.
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Most incarcerated women have stories that are similar to mine. They suffered great trauma as children.
