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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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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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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'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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Mostly it's like, I get inspired by something and I want to learn that part of filmmaking, I want to delve into that kind of depth. And leading, also, a lot of people. A lot of people, for two years of their life they follow me, and they believe what I believe in. So that's some responsibility and I'd like to make it worth the effort.
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My definition of democracy is - A form and a method of Government whereby revolutionary changes in the social life are brought about without bloodshed. That is the real test. It is perhaps the severest test. But when you are judging the quality of the material you must put it to the severest test.
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Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.
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There is a practice that is most powerful in keeping us united with God. That practice is the constant recollection of His presence.
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Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.
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I don't get in a position to be frightened. I don't do anything dangerous, and I always pay my bills.
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Our culture is biased against quiet and reserved people, but introverts are responsible for some of humanity's greatest achievements.
