Susan Downey Quotes
Warner Bros., where I spent pretty much most of my professional life, they continue to make a lot of movies but so many of the studios are pulling back.
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My father had lived in the States in the 1960s for a while and came to love American Songbook material. Even today, he sometimes recognizes singers that I never even heard of, which is beautiful and inspiring.
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I love food, and I'm a chronic over-orderer at restaurants.
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Most of the press is sent to my publicist so I do see most of what is written about me.
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Why do early risers always take that self-righteous tone?
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Cooperation is always more powerful than competition.
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Film is new for me so I'm so fascinated by it and love it, but I would pass out if I could never do theater again. I'd be physically ill!
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I can't wait to get out on the road with Michael McDonald and his band. There is some deep history between us, and it's always a great hang.
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Politics is applied biology.
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The self-made man that some people believe is a myth? It could be, because you do it on the backs of other people.
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I was very naughty. That's the reason I didn't go very much to the university, because I was partying with my friends more than going to the university.
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Because the world today is so constructed that no one can do what he would like to do, and he is forced, instead, to do what others wish him to do. Because the question of money always intrudes – into what we do, into what we are, into what we wish to become, into our work, into our highest aspirations, even into our relations with the people we love!
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Ethiopia is an island of stability within the Horn of Africa, which is a troubled region.
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We must be unanimous; there must be no pulling different ways; we must hang together.
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I don't feel like a 40-year-old. I feel more like four 10-year-olds, each pulling in a different direction.
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The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest.
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The people she admired in his books were people who walked away from the lives that other people expected them to live—Ellen in his first novel, the bohemian painters in his second.
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I loved growing up in Canada. It’s a great place to grow up, because - well, at least where I grew up -it’s very multicultural. There’s also good health care and a good education system.
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Warner Bros., where I spent pretty much most of my professional life, they continue to make a lot of movies but so many of the studios are pulling back.
