Susan Ford (Susan Elizabeth Ford Bales) Quotes
My husband is a Democrat, and I am a Republican, so our political ambitions are on opposite ends.
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I did a lot of little girl groups here and there just to get more comfortable on stage. When you're in girl groups, it's a lot different because if you mess up, there's someone on stage to back you up, and finally I got to a point where I knew I could do it on my own.
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When 'our people' get to the point where they can do us some good, they stop being 'our people.'
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My last album as J. Tillman, 'Singing Ax,' that was really a premeditated death rattle of the aesthetic precedent I had set. I realized I wasn't creating spontaneously; I was enforcing all these parameters. I was too self-loathing or something, and there was this obvious dissonance between my conversational voice and creative voice.
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I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.
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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
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For years, I have repeatedly said that Maryland taxpayers were being overtaxed and overcharged.
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It's always an inner wish of every actor to reach out to maximum audiences.
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I like shopping at retail places like JC Penney or Macy's, and maybe buying a top or a shirt, and then buying a skirt from Rue 21 or Forever 21 because they have the maxi skirts, which I appreciate so much, and then topping it off with something that I buy from a Somali shop.
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I was really inspired by these larger-than-life female artists like Lee Bontecou and Eva Hesse and Yvonne Rainier and the incredible Lynda Benglis. There were many women who were really driven and became successful, who were part of essential paradigm shifts, despite the fact that the art world was still dominated by men.
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There is no question that knowing someone in the business will get you in the door. But it is your skill that will keep you in the room.
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One of biggest lies in politics is the lie that Republicans are the party of big business. Big business does great with big government. Big business is very happy to climb in bed with big government. Republicans are and should be the party of small business and of entrepreneurs.
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We are working with the power industry all over the world. We are meeting customers in aerospace and getting them to tour our plants.
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My mum's always on at me to have children and blames 'that stupid stage thing you do' for me not already having a family.
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New York is really the place to be; to go to New York, you're going to the center of the world, the lion's den.
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I love conventional apocalypse movies. In movies, I like to be with the president, or the scientist trying to solve the problem, but that's not the kind of fiction that I like to read.
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Before the sun went down again, she realized, she would be in New York. The thought sent a nervous thrill through her entire body. Her throat was tight, her heart suddenly racing.
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The West is dying. Its nations have ceased to reproduce, and their populations have stopped growing and begun to shrink. Not since the Black Death carried off a third of Europe in the fourteenth century has there been a graver threat to the survival of Western civilization.
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So, I just kind of played the way I played and then eventually we kind of figured out what worked best for the band. So, I definitely changed my stuff up and I think we're playing really tight now.
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The wife is to exemplify the church’s joyful submission to Christ by following her husband’s leadership.
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It has not been an easy cross to bear. It has caused considerable confusion. My husband constantly complained about the awkwardness of being married to a woman whom he called Sister.
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Only a completely unintelligible God can be said to be absolutely good and absolutely powerful yet tolerate the world as it is.
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When you look at the actual data on technological innovation, one thing you see is that what I call the 'low-hanging fruit' has been exhausted. So radio, flush toilets, electricity, and automobiles - a lot of very basic inventions - have spread to almost all households.
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They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.
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My husband is a Democrat, and I am a Republican, so our political ambitions are on opposite ends.
