Susan Cain (Susan Horowitz Cain) Quotes
Our culture is biased against quiet and reserved people, but introverts are responsible for some of humanity's greatest achievements.
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We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
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If a group of people feels that it has been humiliated and that its honour has been trampled underfoot, it will want to express its identity and this expression of an identity will take different shapes and forms.
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Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
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You just have to work super hard, and if you have a passion, that's the most beautiful thing in life, and you just have to bust out and do it, baby!
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Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.
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I didn't really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home.
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Music means itself.
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My hairstyle is not common in India, where my parents come from.
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Acting is a youthful profession.
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There is more to the game than hitting it far. There are ways to make birdies other than hitting 350-yard drives. I pride myself on a good short game; I work very hard at it.
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I had done a couple of auditions for 'Amistad' and didn't feel it was going to go any further - and then the call came about heading to Los Angeles to work with Steven Spielberg. It was surreal: exciting, challenging, overwhelming.
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As a little girl I always dreamed of having a cosmetics contract, which was the cherry on top of 'making it' in my opinion.
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To me, sound is a crucial component to, really, any moviegoing experience, but particularly with suspense films or thrillers. I think you need the audience to become subtly really attuned to the soundscape in, like, this uncomfortable way.
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If your life gets off to a rough start, just know this is helping you develop depth of personality and depth of character.
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You can't perish because of your own feelings; you have to embrace those things as an actor because it's part of your palette.
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We taped all this and then got it transcribed and picked the best lines or ideas or ways to take a scene. I've done that many times, and it can improve the script but also wreck a perfectly good scene.
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'Let's go out and buy a statistically average meal from a large multinational restaurant chain. That usually fixes about seventy-five percent of life's problems.'
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Fellow citizens:The hour to try your souls and to redeem your pledges has arrived.
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I don't say we are a defensive team. I say we are a strong team in defensive terms, but at the same time lacking sufficient fluidity in attack because that will take time to come.
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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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We talk about quantum weirdness and things being in two places at once, but it all involves atoms and molecules, stuff we don't normally interact with.
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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter.
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Our culture is biased against quiet and reserved people, but introverts are responsible for some of humanity's greatest achievements.
