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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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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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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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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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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A distributed ledger is basically a shared database that allows institutions to directly send and receive money in a trustworthy fashion without a middleman. As a result, we have the capacity to connect the world's payment systems for the first time.That's a big deal.
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Your job as a parent is to listen. And to dole out as much love as you can. That includes tough love.
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It's always the paragraphs I loved most, the ones I tenderly polished and re-read with pride, that my editor will suggest cutting.
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A mentor is someone who is willing to give you advice that isn't in the best interest for them. It takes a real mentor to put you first.
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Before a match, I need to be alone. I need to reach concentration and focus on the game ahead of me.
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It is hard to be number one, and it is even harder to stay there because everyone is trying to knock you off the top.
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When you grow up in something, you don't even know if it's bad or good. You just know that's how it is.
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Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.
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I am a defensive tackle that no matter the situation, even if it is in nickel, I can go in there and rush the passer. And I can help the team out on first and second, too. I will get pressure.
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Cotton Mather's publications in his own lifetime amounted to more than 400 titles, and his magnum opus, on which he labored most of his life, remains unpublished: a commentary on every verse of every book of the Bible. Anyone who leaves that kind of record behind issues an irresistible invitation to historians.
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He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
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My Dad wanted me to be able to play with him and my brothers. I was the only girl!
