Susan Cheever Quotes
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I saw a picture of Elvis in blue lame, and thought that if I could recreate that suit and walk down the King's Road in it, someone might pick me up and take me off on a crazy adventure.
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What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.
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You need your mom and dad to protect you. It means they love you so much.
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My brother is the former mayor of Baltimore.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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As a culture, working-class white Americans like myself had no heroes. We loved the military but had no George S. Patton figure in the modern army. I doubt my neighbours could even name a high-ranking military officer.
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It could be partly my taste. It's just my belief that there are female characters that will benefit from not being vulnerable.
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The most important thing is posture: when you get old, it's the way you walk, the way you stand, that shows it.
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Musical theater is an American genre. It started really, in America, as a combination of jazz and operetta; most of the great musical theater writers in the golden era are American. I think that to do a musical is a very American thing to me.
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More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.
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I'm just going to do me; I'm not trying to do the Eminem thing, the D12 thing or the 50 thing.
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It is God who gives us the opportunity to win and to get victories.
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Sundays are for Dim Sum. While the rest of America goes to church, Sunday School, or NFL games, you can find Chinese people eating Cantonese food.
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When it's a bad movie you want to release it quietly. You try to keep it a secret like an STD.
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I love Saturday nights with my best friend and a big bowl of pasta, wanting a good scare, something that will say, 'Listen, your life is not as bad as this. Your life can be so much worse.'
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When I was 17, a neighbour I knew well died of cancer, and I became au pair to her three little girls. In circumstances like that, when you can't really help, I think it's a human response to do something beyond oneself. So I did a sponsored parachute jump for Cancer Research. It was exciting and ridiculous.
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I always put myself second - I like to make others happy.
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One of the best things people could do for their descendents would be to sharply limit the number of them.
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When women love, they forgive everything...
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We often discussed his notions on objective reality. I recall that during one walk Einstein suddenly stopped, turned to me and asked whether I really believed that the moon exists only when I look at it.
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I think it is essential for Israel's survival as a Jewish and democratic state that we end the status quo. The preferred way to end the status quo would be on the basis of a two-state solution. We don't want the Palestinians to be citizens of Israel, nor do we want them to be subjects.
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I would love to do a western. I would love to play an explorer. That is always something that has really captured my imagination since I was a kid, like James Cook or Magellan or Earnest Shackleton.
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I was one thing at one time, and I'm something new. I'm a new creature now. Don't judge Alice by what he used to be. Praise God for what I am now.
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Falling in love as we know it is an addictive experience.
