Susan Ford (Susan Elizabeth Ford Bales) Quotes
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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The Constitution acknowledges two kinds of taxes: direct and indirect... Examples of direct taxes are income and property taxes... Examples of indirect taxes are import and excise taxes.
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And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
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Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.
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It's a touchy subject, but as a Southerner, you can't ignore our history any more than a Renaissance painter can ignore the Virgin Mary. And it's impossible to drive down a road or eat a vegetable or pass a church without being reminded of slavery.
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If I can help a kid feel more comfortable in their skin because they're struggling with maybe the things I struggled with in high school, that's great.
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We've come into the world of '1984,' but it turns out to be '1984'-Lite.
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Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
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The goal as a musician, I think, is to be able to make music as a living for the rest of your life.
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People come up to me and tell me how I changed their life and I've inspired them. And they tell me their stories, and that keeps me going.
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My father always said, 'Do your best and piss on the rest.' And I think there's a lot of truth to that, because if you've done your best, there's not a hell of a lot more you can do about something.
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Discovery is for forward lookers. So, no one is born with great knowledge.
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It's unfortunate, I've been the victim of some Australian press.
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A tremendous amount of needless pain and suffering can be eliminated by ensuring that health insurance is universally available.
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It's such a challenge to play a good guy - it's hard to be believable.
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Louis knew a few xenophobes, and regarded them as dolts.
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Beauty is a fading flower, Truth is but a wizard's tower, Where a solemn death-bell tolls, And a forest round it rolls.
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I've heard people say to me, 'How can you claim to be a feminist when you dress like that?' I wear a lot of slip dresses and nightwear and stuff. People always question my credibility because of that: 'Oh, are you selling sex? Are you doing this or that to be recognized more or to sell your music?' No, it's just a fashion thing for me.
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I'm not interesting enough on my own that you'd want to see a film about me.
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I thought it was a glorious thing to be a critic and to be a literary editor, and one was really doing something that mattered: to keep up standards, to take books seriously.
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Short-term thinking is the greatest enemy of good government.
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Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.
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I'm sure everyone's got their back story. I don't come from a place of where I was tortured and needed to let something out. I came from a very happy home. I was a little out of control at times. But my family... we all liked to be funny, we all liked to make each other laugh.
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When you're the only girl in a family of men, you have to be pretty sassy.
