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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Basically, my mother couldn't hold a tune and when I was a baby, a rather tactless baby, I would ask her not to sing... you can't get to sleep if someone is singing off key nearby.
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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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What also helps our show is that we never take ourselves seriously.
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I think the rules will change and I think more and more young women are going to decide that having a family and taking care of a home is not a bad choice, but how do we subsidize it - not necessarily European-style socialism. It'll have to be a new more creative, dynamic and local solution.
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Revolution did not necessarily involve sanguinary strife. It was not a cult of bomb and pistol. They may sometimes be mere means for its achievement.
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There's no way a director can communicate with every single person on the set and yet they need to motivate and instill an ambition to want to do their best work.
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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.
