Susan Ford (Susan Elizabeth Ford Bales) Quotes

I want somebody athletic, outgoing, at least two inches taller than I am, rugged, very outdoorsy, a leader, someone who would overpower me.

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• Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Work
  • Great
  • Pretty

• The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • May
  • Risk
  • Liberty

• It's true that I run a multi-national group but I have no interests in India. So please tell me, what should my identity be?

  

  Lakshmi Mittal
  • True
  • Identity
  • Interests

• Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Imagination
  • Enemy
  • Politics

• My dad played guitar, and he taught me enough to play some Beatles' songs. But primarily, I was a bookworm. I loved reading and still do. My whole family does. It was part of the family culture. Accomplished literacy was a value.

  

  K. Flay
  • Family
  • Culture
  • Dad

• Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Time
  • Age
  • Cheer

• When I was starting out and had to cut my teeth and build my resume to get in, I had to basically work for free on a lot of things.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Work
  • Free
  • Resume

• For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Long
  • Man
  • Political

• I don't want to be known as an item dancer. I want to be known as an actress only.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Want
  • Actress
  • Only

• When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.

  

  Beck
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• We are shallow because we are 'mayabang,' ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom
  • Mistake

• For the most part, it's a very male-dominated business. Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that, even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Business
  • Friend
  • Wife

• Whenever I'm in Des Moines, I always make a trip to Manhattan Deli for a sandwich. I spent a lot of time there when I was going to college at Drake, so it's usually my one 'go-to' food stop when I'm in town.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Time
  • Food
  • Stop

• Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Women
  • Giving
  • Choices

• I'm still dreaming to be the next Missy Elliott.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Next
  • Still
  • Dreaming

• A lot of what gets on the radio isn't saying anything other than somebody wants to be famous and will do whatever they're told to get it.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Famous
  • Saying
  • Radio

• You don't have to be dowdy to be a Christian.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • You
  • Christian

• My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Writer
  • Editor
  • Publisher

• When life gives you the opportunity to check off a thing on the bucket list, you have to check them.

  

  Ryan Tedder OneRepublic
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • Check

• You're always looking to make it a bit fresh. I want to make sure people are constantly surprised and interested, and we're always talking to the directors about that. It's a big challenge to find people that can do it.

  

  Adrian Hodges
  • Challenge
  • Interested
  • Fresh

• People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People
  • Want
  • Criticism

• If you want the love of the people, stop running after it. The more you chase it, the more it escapes you. Love doesn't come from the people. It comes from God.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • People
  • God
  • Want

• Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Power
  • Man
  • How

• I want somebody athletic, outgoing, at least two inches taller than I am, rugged, very outdoorsy, a leader, someone who would overpower me.

  

  Susan Ford
  • Want
  • Leader
  • Athletic