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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TV presenting isn't the hardest job in the world, and I've done all right financially out of it.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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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'm always singing and dancing and getting up in people's faces.
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I don't do things that are illegal.
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The consequence of Mr. Bush's and Blair's historic lie that the reason for invading Iraq was weapons of mass destruction, is that everything is being doubted.
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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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Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.
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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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‘Truth of it is,’ said Commander Haydock, steering rather erratically round a one-way island and narrowly missing collision with a large van, ‘when the beggars are right, one remembers it, and when they’re wrong you forget it.’
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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 have no interest whatsoever in pursuing acting or becoming a mogul. I love writing and directing; I see those two jobs as the most critical in the making of a film.
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The audience will only truly respect you when they have no idea what is going on.
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Epidemics historically have tended to kill the very young and the very old, but AIDS is different: Those ages 20 to 40 are most affected, which means that so far over 12 million African children have been orphaned because of AIDS.
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Most incarcerated women have stories that are similar to mine. They suffered great trauma as children.
