Susan Cheever Quotes
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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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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I like being in love, but loving is what is crucial to me. Loving is the reason to live.
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On 9/11, those of us who do the jobs that I do, flew without a net for hour and hour and hour after end. And then you hope and pray that you've had the experience to be up to it. Because then you're editor, analyst, reporter, correspondent, ringmaster, the whole thing.
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Experience is never at bargain price.
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I like to improvise.
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Falling in love as we know it is an addictive experience.
