Susan Cain (Susan Horowitz Cain) Quotes
It’s never a good idea to organize society in a way that depletes the energy of half the population.
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Editorial photography has to be energetic and visually competitive.
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Honestly speaking, I don't like my films. When I watch them, I see a lot of scope for improvement, so if I were to see any of my films, like 'Dhoom,' I might say... 'It would have been better if...' or 'had it been...' and this is all about evolving.
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When Mitt Romney talked about Putin expanding his sphere of influence, Obama mocked and said, 'The Cold War has been over 20 years, nothing to be worried about'... We keep making that mistake with Putin.
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I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.
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Islamism is an ideology that seeks to impose any version of Islam over society.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.
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I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.
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There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing to hide. It's a relief in a way. There's nothing about me that can't be said.
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I'm kind of a control freak. I like to be really prepared.
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You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?
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No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
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I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.
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Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
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I did the Kannada film when just out of school. I didn't know anything about the South Indian film industry at that time, and I did the film to earn some pocket money. I realised then I like acting.
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Skating taught me to set a goal and to block out other things and just focus on this one thing.
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I don't compose, actually. I just record. I'm the opposite of a composer in my way of working. I'm more instinctive.
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Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
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When I was in school in the Art Institute, we had several problems during the course of the time we were taking ceramic classes where we had to do a sculptural piece. And when I say a sculptural piece, it's nothing like what we conceive of now as a sculptural piece.
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When I got hit by the car, I became depressed. As a result, I've been on antidepressants and I feel like I have no sexuality left. People complain about that side effect, but I love it. I feel outside of society.
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It’s never a good idea to organize society in a way that depletes the energy of half the population.
