Susan Glaspell (Susan Keating Glaspell) Quotes
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
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I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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I don't talk in ifs.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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Safeco Field is a lot like a National League park. Because of that, we're more of a pitching-defensive type club. Anaheim and Oakland - and even Texas - are more offensive oriented. We're a club that doesn't blow anybody out, but at the same time we don't get blown out much. We're in most of the games.
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There's been quite a clear upswing in nationalist sentiments. Everyone is talking about it, in Turkey as well.
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I think it's a loser's mentality to get happy with somebody losing.
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There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.
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His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.
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Whether labeled as such or not, I think every book I've ever written has been, more or less, a romantic suspense. I have always put tremendous effort into making each book a page turner: The harder it is for the reader to put it down, the better I've done my job.
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The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
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I really hate rubber ducks, actually.
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I am a little old fashioned, and I love to have my scripts printed out. There is something magical about feeling the paper, making notes and page marks.
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If you're always worried about being on your phone, then you really are missing out on everything that's happening in front of you.
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When I played, a pitcher could throw at you any time he wanted to. In fact, he could tell you he was going to throw at you, and there was nothing said. You had to take it. If he hit ya, he hit ya.
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Indie writers who promote their book instead of writing the next book are wasting their time. The more books you've written, the more books you'll sell. That's how it works. That's how it's always worked.
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The key words of violent economics are urbanization, industrialization, centralization, efficiency, quantity, speed. . . . The problem of evolving a nonviolent way of economic life [in the West] and that of developing the underdeveloped countries may well turn out to be largely identical.
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Modeling was never anything that was a career choice. I did catalog work in Toronto to make money so that I could go to school.
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People who are interested in the arts and theater are such a minority.
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A clock is a little machine that shuts us out from the wonder of time.
