Susan Egan Quotes
The goal isn't to be successful; it's to be happy. And so it doesn't matter if I'm doing things in New York or teaching high school or I drop it altogether and sell coffee. The goal is to be happy, and people and relationships are what makes you happy.Susan Egan
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I think comics are really part of The Zeitgeist. They reflect back to us the issues that we're concerned about in the time they are written.
G. Willow Wilson -
One thing I have seen over and over again in life is that there is virtually no correlation between intelligence and common sense. IQ doesn't seem to translate that way.
Vincent Bugliosi -
I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a legendary Jamaican band - had a little demo set up at his house. I'm very good friends with his eldest son, Shiah, who plays with me now. So we were rhyming over a track by the dancehall artist Peter Metro. I've still got it somewhere.
Damian Marley -
I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.
Patrick Stewart -
We play rock & roll, but we swing when we play. We want that ongoing flow, that lightness, that forward rush of jazz.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
I grew up in a university town in eastern North Carolina - what's called Tobacco Road. It was very rural.
Garth Risk Hallberg
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Football has been my life for as long as I can remember.
Jack Youngblood -
My function is to make whoever sees my films aware of his need to love and to give his love, and aware the beauty is summoning him.
Andrei Tarkovsky -
Nothing is as exciting - or as nerve-wracking - as being the new girl. Whether it's your first day of school or you're starting a dream job, if there's one thing that makes a first impression a lot less daunting, it's a really, really good hair day.
Elaine Welteroth -
Forget reparations - we need to rescue aspects of black culture abandoned even by black folks, whether it is the blues or home cookin' or broader forms of not just survival but triumph.
Kevin Young -
People don't realize that I'm really funny and I'm an excellent bridge player.
Sheryl Crow -
The Chinese have a habit of reading. Many families regard books as the most valuable family asset.
Li Yuanchao
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Writing a song is much like being an author. Yes, we all have tools to write (everyone has a brain I hope!), but that doesn't all of a sudden make us best selling authors.
Ken Hill -
I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
Singing is what got me into everything and made me fall in love with this industry.
James Maslow Big Time Rush -
I have blind trust in people. Even if that ends up hurting me, I won't change. I will go on trusting people because that's the only way I know to love someone.
Bipasha Basu -
Today's Communism can survive only if it abandons the myth of an infallible party, if it continues to think, and if it becomes democratic.
Friedrich Durrenmatt -
Over at Marvel, I have a five-part series coming out very soon. The books or chapters will appear weekly. It's called '5 Ronin' and features some iconic Marvel heroes as you've never seen them.
Peter Milligan
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Art is so subjective, and people can react however they want.
Jennifer Aniston -
I have been luckier than anyone I know or even heard of. I had a very happy childhood, a good education, I enjoyed working as a teacher, journalist and author. I have loved a wonderful man for over 33 years, and I believe he loves me, too.
Maeve Binchy -
I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.
Jane Austen -
No, Nathan, no." She wrapped his face in her hands. "I just need you--all of you--so much that I'm going crazy. I need your laugh. I need your company. I need you to sleep beside me and I need you to wake when I wake. I need you with everything in me.
Nalini Singh -
I grew up in West Jakarta, in a middle-to-low-class neighbourhood.
Rich Brian -
The goal isn't to be successful; it's to be happy. And so it doesn't matter if I'm doing things in New York or teaching high school or I drop it altogether and sell coffee. The goal is to be happy, and people and relationships are what makes you happy.
Susan Egan