Susan Davis (Susan Carol Alpert Davis) Quotes
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All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That's what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.
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Considering retirement is like skirting with the reality of what's to come, and I think that's why so many athletes decide to do more introspection at that point.
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There's so much to learn about acting and performance in general... I mean, acting is a very complex art, and there are a lot more theories and methods and techniques to it than I think anybody would think.
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If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
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I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
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I am obsessed with rap music - it's such a big part of my life.
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You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.
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I don't think my father considered allowing a teenager to follow his dreams was necessarily good parenting, or even parenting. I think he thought I was a teenager with teenage impulses. I'm pretty sure he knew that if he just let me follow those impulses, it would wind up being very expensive and perhaps even life-endangering.
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The great thing about journalism is that there is so much exposure to all kinds of people who can turn up later as characters, whether you intend it or not.
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If people need to be informed by lines, then there's no reason why the actor is saying the line except for information for the audience; I think there's something wrong.
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The genome was once thought to be just the blueprint for a living organism, like a combination of the architect's plan for a building and the builder's list of supplies. It specified the parts, the building blocks, and, somehow, the design of the whole, the way in which they are to be put together.
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If you're a sports fan, it is really cool when you see the best-on-best for hockey at the Olympics.
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In our pledge every day, we pledge one Nation under God with liberty and justice for all.
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The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
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What should be the aim of management? What is their job? Quality is the responsibility of the top people. Its origin is in the boardroom. They are the ones who decide.
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I worry from the moment I take a job. I worry about how I'm going to do it, if I can do it... Then I walk on set and the director says, 'Roll', and all of a sudden, all of it disappears and it's all happening, and I relax, and I'm doing what I do, and I'm not even thinking about it.
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Fitting in is boring. But it takes you nearly your whole life to work that out.
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Plan B is a plan to fail. You should always give 110% to what you plan to do for plan A.
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L.A. is the opposite of Britain in a lot of respects, and that's what draws so many British people here.
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Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.
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The biggest kick I get is to communicate with those who are exiled from the game - in hospitals, homes, prisons - those who have seldom seen a game, who can't travel to a game, those who are blind.
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My favorite pastime is to write.
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My kids download 10 games. They play them all for two minutes. They throw away the eight they don't like. Then they play those last two obsessively for a month. That's alien to those of us who buy a $60 game and play it for 40 or 50 hours. The discovery mechanism is completely social, and I don't think you get that genie back in the bottle.
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My Dad wanted me to be able to play with him and my brothers. I was the only girl!
