Susan George (Susan Melody George) Quotes
If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees.
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I might not be the greatest actor, but I walk into every project willing to work hard.
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Passover is my idea of a perfect holiday. Dear God, when you're handing out plagues of darkness, locusts, hail, boils, flies, lice, frogs, and cattle murrain, and turning the Nile to blood and smiting the firstborn, give me a pass. And tell me when it's over.
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The late Seventies was the death of the manufacturing age in the United States. It was also a time when the Pictures Generation artists were getting started. They co-opted the language of advertising. The factory disappeared, and weirdly, so did the art object - it was the age of making gestures, not objects.
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Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
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Pave your own path and be fearless.
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The Lord discovered to me a sense of my unbelief that, though late, I should remember my transgressions and that I should be converted with my whole heart to the Lord my God.
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Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.
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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
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I enjoy building something good and having a successful product and making money.
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I don't need a piece of paper to suggest that I can commit myself.
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I knew Childress was going to help me because my crew told me on the radio. I really appreciate what Richard did, but that is typical of people in this sport.
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Most of my best games were when I felt crap - I could hardly move on the morning of the World Cup semi-final in 1990 - but there's a thing called adrenaline that gets you through.
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Poetry is almost like my foundation for everything. I almost feel I am a better actor and writer because of it.
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Why trip off some random person in Idaho that doesn't feel my vibe? Like, no thank you. Stay in your life; I'll stay in mine.
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Dad was a retired chemist who, in his 60s, fathered and fed me and my two sisters while Mum worked as a secretary. He made us curries, Chinese meals and strange concoctions. He was often unsuccessful.
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I feel like I'm one of the many working mothers. And I only have one child. I know working mums who have three or four. It's definitely a challenge but it's a wonderful challenge to be able to do both.
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People like to talk about their hometowns and their travels, and the more places you've been, the more likely you'll be able to make a connection that can bring new business leads or career opportunities.
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The happiness I feel in having a family has brought me a real beauty.
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For me personally, I'm an activist, so I see a lot of turmoil and heartache in the world and tragedy.
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So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under.
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I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif.
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Metallic trees. That's new. If you see any steel dryads, be sure to tell me so I can run away screaming.
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I'm terribly forgetful. I've lost laptops, cell-phones.
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If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees.
