Susan Egan Quotes
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There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
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Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protocol. I don't invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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As we all know... golf is a puzzle without an answer.
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Actors play different characters in every project they do. Though it has nothing to do with my craft, the red carpet gives me the opportunity to show who I really am and be myself.
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Depth on different levels is so important to me. You look at a band like The Beatles, all their material has so much depth to it. And I want people to be able to run away with my melodies and get lost in them and take the lyrics and be able to relate to them.
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We've always made progress by understanding what the next great challenge is.
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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.
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The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world.
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I mean, when you're a pioneer and you are at the forefront of an offensive, you're going to be the most optimistic person.
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I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings.
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We have, essentially, a worthless democracy.
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I'm my own biggest marketing tool. I know the history of the business and I might as well capitalize on it.
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I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.
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I lost my mother and my brother when I was 15 in two separate car accidents. I was doing well at school. I was a good sportsperson, but at that point, I gave up on all of those things that were there to be done. I couldn't deal with them.
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You have to take control of your own life, your own destiny, and your own careers. You can't leave everything up to someone else, 'cause then you can look at them and blame them.
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I think that the music industry is such an interesting place, and there are so many situations that people don't know about.
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When you're learning, especially to write, unless you're some incredibly gifted writer, a young Malcom Gladwell, say, you need to be imitating people. You need to be imitating how they make their work, how they structure it, how they design the pieces. It gives you chops; it gives you moves.
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I've never been a partier.
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Suchness is neither that which is existence, nor that which is nonexistence, nor that which is at once existence and nonexistence, nor that which is not at once existence and nonexistence.
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You never know what your opportunities are going to be.
