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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I am so saddened and grossed out by young women who look like creepy, old aliens because of their new Barbie noses and lips. Is that a smile or a grimace?
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We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.
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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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If I didn't play tennis I don't know where I'd be.
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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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My father taught me that one of the most important abilities in life is to be able to take the pain and persevere, and for years this lesson had served me well.
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Music means itself.
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'I think that I will not answer that question,' he said at last. 'I would create as many false images as there were ears to hear me.''Half as many,' Clissum pointed out delicately.
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Anybody who makes speeches written by someone else is just a robot.
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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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Every young girl wants to be a princess. Then, when you find a real-life one, it's very easy to imagine yourself in that role.
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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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I run or walk three times a week. I do Pilates, too, which is amazing - it makes you longer and leaner.
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I love our traditional marriage. I would never cheat on Hank.
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I try when I'm writing to fill my head and my ears with all sorts of stuff and then let it settle and filter through. At a certain point it seems like fruitless activity because you're taking a lot of time and not seeming to get anything. And then, slowly, you realize you've actually digested elements and that your thinking is being freed up and the way you build up compositions is changed as a result of what you've been listening to.
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The rights of no oppressed people have ever yet been obtained by a voluntary act of justice on the part of the oppressors.
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'Pasadena' erred on the side being too dark. That was probably the one thing about it, in retrospect, why it didn't get picked up.
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Our culture is biased against quiet and reserved people, but introverts are responsible for some of humanity's greatest achievements.
