Susan Estrich Quotes
Half of me knows too much to be carefree. But the other half knows enough to be grateful.
Quotes to Explore
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Nerves are good. They keep you alive.
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I'm trying to equalise the world to say there is no high and low.
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Because art as a pursuit, as a concept, as an ideal, constantly elevates one above the pragmatic, one is inclined to discuss art in heightened terminologies. For me, it is just what I do all day long.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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I just don't watch a lot of TV.
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A completely disrespectful photographer was asked to stop taking photographs, and then said, 'I've got what I want. What are you going to do about it?' How would you feel if somebody walked up and started taking your photograph? I don't think you'd be very happy.
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Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.
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I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life - who I'm married to now - and he was a virgin too. It was very romantic.
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I've never walked away from any of my positions. I take pride in them.
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I am gluten free, dairy free and sugar free, although I do slip up on the sugar sometimes because I have a big sweet tooth!
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Action is the real measure of intelligence.
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Oddly enough, I've always really loved Nightcrawler. You know who else they didn't use enough was Phoenix. I just thought her story line was so tragic. I was just really drawn to that character as well.
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You cannot be seeking yourself when you're making money.
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Tea-shops were to become my favourite haunts in England.
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Education is the gateway to the American Dream. But today our immigration laws make higher education - a virtual requirement for financial security - out of reach for more than one million undocumented students.
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When I was going through school, I joined the Lyceum Youth Theatre, and that kind of cemented it. Through being in and around the building and watching shows, I realised that there was something I really loved about it, so I went into the stage management side.
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I was a dancer, so for me, if I don't work out for a week or move my body in some sense, I feel weird.
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I don't like memoirs. I think they're self-serving, and people use them to settle scores, and I really tried not to do that. You have to have a really interesting life to justify memoir, and my life has been pretty ho-hum.
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Business is always a struggle. There are always obstacles and competitors. There is never an open road, except the wide road that leads to failure. Every great success has always been achieved by fight. Every winner has scars.The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will-power to develop themselves. So choose to be among the few today.
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Some are wrong because they are not strong enough to fight temptation and some some are wrong because they do not know.
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I realised there were no good role models for kids. Popeye eats spinach, but also smokes and hits people.
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Half of me knows too much to be carefree. But the other half knows enough to be grateful.
