Susan Cain (Susan Horowitz Cain) Quotes
We have a two-tier class system when it comes to personality style. To devalue introversion is a waste of talent, energy and happiness.
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I always get scared. I can't read scripts. I'm scared, scary movies and stuff.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.
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I feel quite connected to the past, and my memory. Everything that I've ever done I can still relate to, and feel connected to it in a way. There's no part of my life that I look at and go, 'I don't recognize that person at all.'
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If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.
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The most romantic thing someone did was surprise me at the airport, after being away for 3 months in Los Angeles. You always see people with signs, and you're like, 'Isn't that lovely?' and then you see your own name on one - that isn't a taxi driver's! I was very impressed.
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The entertainment business is not the be-all and end-all for me.
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I played quarterback, and it was a leadership position, and even though I'm doing a solo thing now, a lot of my success is a part of assembling this team of people who are really, really talented, and their position doesn't put them out front the way mine does, but it's still a team effort.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.
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In the past, kids didn't tell their parents they were gay, so there were never the bust-ups. Some parents react so strongly to the news that their children are gay that the reaction is, 'Get out of our house.' There's a residue of old prejudices that are going to die hard.
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All of the people are the dependents of Allah.
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It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words, like 'What about lunch?'
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I have always liked a challenge.
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The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.
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Vig used to call me 'Elf boy', and I'd call him 'filthy human'. As an Elf, I never got a scratch on me, never got dirty. And Vig would come out with blood and sweat all over him. And he'd say to me, 'Oh, go manicure your nails.'
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As frustrating as it is to not have a record come out, I have to make sure that it's worth putting out. I have to be trying to say something, for one. I have to not oversell what I'm trying to say. I can't 'Bono' it.
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A transition, by definition, means you start in one place and finish in another.
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Art raises its head where creeds relax.
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Film writing and concert writing are two very different things. In film writing I am serving the film and it tells you what to write. I have to stay within the parameters of the film. In writing concert music for the stage I can write anything I want and in this day and modern age rules can be broken.
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We know the past but cannot control it. We control the future but cannot know it.
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Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all that you do. It tones up your physical vitality and gives warmth to all your personal relationships. When you associate with enthusiasm long enough it grabs you and takes over within you.
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We have a two-tier class system when it comes to personality style. To devalue introversion is a waste of talent, energy and happiness.
