Susan Glaspell (Susan Keating Glaspell) Quotes
Even though you've given up a past it hasn't given you up. It comes uninvited - and sometimes half welcome.
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Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.
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We'll support anyone who's doing something fresh.
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I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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Before I went to New Orleans, I was a little scared of New Orleans. I don't know why. I had only been there a few times. Something about it made me feel nervous, knowing a bit about the history.
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Reich and John Cage were pretty big influences on this record (Folie A Deux) in weird ways in that you wouldn't necessarily hear any of it - nothing ends up sounding like either of them, but I think just methodology and things like that ended up on the record in various ways.
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Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
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On reproche aux gens de parler d’eux-mêmes. C’est pourtant le sujet qu’ils traitent le mieux.
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I think technology has changed America, not any one organization. Technology is taking the power away from the few. There'll be a lot more choices, and good people who are doing serious stuff will survive and there'll be a lot more voices, and that is very healthy.
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When the violation of parity was discovered I began a series of electronic experiments to investigate parity violation in hyperon decays.
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I personally don't distinguish between artistic and commercial films.
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I had to learn to dance for 'The Adjustment Bureau' and it was nearly impossible. I turned up with my knees knocking in my leotard and went home and cried my eyes out.
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ISIL is dangerous. They're a threat. They're a brutal, horrible force that needs to be dealt with.
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I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last remnants of my Cockney accent.
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You must bring a white-hot level of intensity and focus to your work.
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I started in the psychological thriller side of feature filmmaking with 'Spiral,' which was the first one that I wrote and directed and played the lead in.
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Serious collectors and art experts, among the world's most educated, often cannot fathom the possibility of being rooked, and then once taken, cannot face the humiliation of admitting it.
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I was not a girly girl. I was a tomboy.
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I made records in the past that are as traditional as any other country records that have been made, but at the same time the records have a contemporary slant on it too.
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Well, as you know, we're working through a difficult period in our financial markets right now as we work off some of the past excesses. But the American people can remain confident in the soundness and the resilience of our financial system.
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Fashion doesn't look good only on models; it can look good on different people of different ages and different body shapes.
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If anything changes shape or takes off without me, I'll come after you and kill you. I'm too type A.
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Even though you've given up a past it hasn't given you up. It comes uninvited - and sometimes half welcome.
