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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I believe in reincarnation of the soul.
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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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I'm definitely not getting married. In this business, you're either getting married or they want you to be pregnant. I'm not getting married until I'm forty. If ever.
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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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My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
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I'm a natural sceptic.
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My grandma passed away from cancer, and actually, when I was 18, I had an experience with melanoma – it's in the family. I had that experience where everything comes into perspective. It's the weirdest thing, 'cause you're like, 'It will never happen to me,' and when it does, it's like, 'OK, wow.'
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You would never argue about a straight girl playing a lesbian. Everybody still watched 'The L Word.' I feel like we have such great role models, like Jane Lynch and Jodie Foster and all these people that you don't even think about.
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When you're the only girl in a family of men, you have to be pretty sassy.
