Susan George (Susan Melody George) Quotes
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I'm very obsessed with 'The Real Housewives' franchise. It's a bad obsession.
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I've lived in New York for a really long time.
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Islamism is an ideology that seeks to impose any version of Islam over society.
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Ireland was, of old, called the Isle of Saints because of the great number of holy ones of both sexes who flourished there in former ages or who, coming thence, propagated the faith amongst other nations.
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As actors, we put in our best, but when people don't like a film, you have to learn to deal with it. I've learnt not to get too emotional.
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I love ensemble work. I love making pieces and building things together.
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Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
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I am not afraid to go to jail.
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I love mixing with comedians when I'm working with them, but when I'm not I don't feel the need to hang around with them.
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Music is the message of peace, and music only brings peace.
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The sense of being a separate, egoic self begins with the astral, not with the physical, body. The soul is individualized spirit.
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I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.
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And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.
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I get recognized all the time, but not as Haley Bennett.
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The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew where I was, was caught for some reason, I should move.
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I was attacked by a dog when I was a toddler, and my injuries were so bad, I spent quite a bit of my childhood in and out of hospital. Books were absolutely my salvation during those years.
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There's just something about that cold rush that I know I hate and a lot of other swimmers hate.
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Coercion is the least efficient means of obtaining order.
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Ruins-antique ruins at least-are what is left when history has moved on. They are no longer at the mercy of history, only of time. (p. 207).
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It was necessary, as a black historian, to have a personal agenda.
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I go around with my books so much and I love to perform on stage, to remind everybody that the lights are off, the phones are off, and for this hour, it's going to be like your mother reading to you. We're going to remember why we love stories. I think that gets lost in over-intellectualizing.
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Everybody wants blockbusters. I like to see a few pictures now and then that have to do with people and have relationships, and that's what I want to do films about. I don't want to see these sci-fi movies, and I don't want to do one of those. I don't understand it.
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Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column.
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What it missing, I think, is this notion of the common good.
