Susan Choi Quotes

The complexity of the world is so overwhelming and so present to everyone.

Susan Choi

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• The simpler I keep things, the better I play.

  

  Nancy Lopez
  • Play
  • Things
  • Better

• I think there are a very few pro-lifers who would say that a zygote in a petri dish is the equivalent of you or me; it's just younger. If you can say that without laughing, maybe you are a true pro-lifer. But I think most people are able or willing to make distinctions that show they maybe don't quite believe that.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • People
  • Believe
  • True

• I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.

  

  Patrick Wang
  • Time
  • Find
  • Strange

• I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • World
  • Think
  • New York

• I'm deeply stressed as a filmmaker, and I know I'm not alone. The censorship crisis, the moral policing, the politics of it has most of us on edge. I'm scared to use certain words: like, if I use 'Bombay,' will there be a problem?

  

  Karan Johar
  • Words
  • Alone
  • Moral

• There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Person
  • Human
  • Human Beings

• I don't think you can force a moral opinion or you can force something through a Bollywood film.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Think
  • Opinion
  • Moral

• I read YA novels constantly, so I really want to be in a young adult rom-com, but I worry that I'm aging into the parent role, which is a little scary.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Worry
  • Parent
  • Scary

• Despite what Pope Benedict would have us believe, sex without love can be fucking amazing.

  

  Dan Savage
  • Believe
  • Amazing
  • Sex

• The world can no longer accept, the world can no longer accept that basic education is enough. Why do leaders accept that for children in developing countries, only basic literacy is sufficient, when their own children do homework in Algebra, Mathematics, Science and Physics?

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • World
  • Children
  • Why

• This debate is coming down essentially to two visions - Mr. Harper's vision for Canada and my vision for Canada, and to a decision to be made by people disappointed by Mr. (Stephane) Dion

  

  Jack Layton
  • People
  • Decision
  • Vision

• I wake up in the morning, all I think is flipCount a couple hundreds, flip a couple bricksTime to hit the plug now, need another flipCounting all this money, got me filthy rich

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Up
  • Money
  • Morning

• Just don't make the '9' format pack/unpack numbers...

  

  Larry Wall

• …a man who sold meat but knew nothing of the poetry of the slaughterhouse…. Ted Arden was no ice-cream butcher.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Poetry

• 180 episodes of 'CSI: Miami' and never the same lipstick twice!

  

  Emily Procter
  • Lipstick

• We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

  

  James Nicoll
  • Words
  • English

• You can see some very great theatre actors who don't work at all well on screen. They're trying too hard at it.

  

  Kevin Whately
  • Work
  • Great
  • Trying

• It's great to be able to just go with an idea and not have 10 people in a room telling me why I can't write in a huge mud slide at a school function with 50 kindergartners running around.

  

  Maria Semple
  • People
  • Great
  • School

• When you're stuck on something creatively, you can't solve a problem, you go to a coffee shop.

  

  Eric Weiner
  • Problem
  • Stuck
  • Solve

• I understand the power of the Internet, but I can't say that I'm there. I'm old-fashioned and living in a different century. I don't know. I just don't really understand the craze of it.

  

  Ksenia Solo
  • Different
  • Power

• This is one of the toughest, most complex pieces of legislation that we've tried to put together in our lifetime.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • Together
  • Lifetime
  • Complex

• He alone is worthy of the appellation who either does great things, or teaches how they may be done, or describes them with a suitable majesty when they have been done; but those only are great things which tend to render life more happy, which increase the innocent enjoyments and comforts of existence, or which pave the way to a state of future bliss more permanent and more pure.

  

  John Milton
  • Worthy
  • Suitable
  • Appellation

• Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • World
  • Good
  • Bad

• The complexity of the world is so overwhelming and so present to everyone.

  

  Susan Choi
  • World
  • Present
  • Everyone