Susan Hampshire (Susan Lady Kulukundis) Quotes
Some people can only be happy being a star. What happens if and when the work dries up?
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Just because I have two world records, everyone assumes that means automatically it is two guaranteed gold medals, but it isn't like that, and anything can happen in a race.
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Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around.
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It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
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I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.
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I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
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Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.
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I used to love to create outfits, and I still do - I just don't have the time. How can you wear one thing and never wear it again? Even my wedding dress - I had a dress made that I could wear again. I'm a child of the depression, so I'm very, very practical.
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We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.
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Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.
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I'm a historian in my own mind.
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South African literature is a literature in bondage. It is a less-than-fully-human literature. It is exactly the kind of literature you would expect people to write from prison.
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Most geniuses are weird.
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When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my hand.
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Philosophy was once considered science.
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The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.
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The pancreas is by far the most complex organ in the body.
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I knew comedy was the thing for me when I was the only Asian kid in high school... who failed math.
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The Germans must be together.
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If you walk into the front hallway of the CIA, you will see, on your left, a statue of William 'Wild Bill' Donovan. Bill Donovan was the person who created the OSS, the Office of Strategic Services, which was America's spy agency during World War II and then kind of morphed into what's now the CIA.
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Some people can only be happy being a star. What happens if and when the work dries up?
