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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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've stopped questioning things and how things work.
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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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Very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be.
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There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what you know ain't so.'
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The dream is everything in the sport of fishing. You dream with every cast of your fly that the shadowy form will finally rise to your fly. You dream as you drop off to sleep at night about the lunker that got loose just as you were about to net it.
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Alejandro Colucci has designed covers for my books that stand out, that catch the eye, and that make me, as a reader and consumer, want to know more about the books behind those covers.
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Our culture is biased against quiet and reserved people, but introverts are responsible for some of humanity's greatest achievements.
