Susan Hayward (Edythe Marrenner) Quotes
My life is fair game for anybody. I spent an unhappy, penniless childhood in Brooklyn. I had to slug my way up in a town called Hollywood where people love to trample you to death. I don't relax because I don't know how. I don't want to know how. Life is too short to relax.
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When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.
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Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down.
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Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.
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Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
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When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.
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You don't have to stick with these recipes. They're guides. As I say, they're a way in. Have fun with them. It's an easier way to cook in a busy life, once you get the hang of it.
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I don't think I've had a holiday in my entire life that wasn't about my dad's work.
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I have loved eight women in my life. I remember every woman's face.
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Life is never free of contradictions.
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It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
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It's hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don't always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.
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The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.
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My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.
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I like the company of men. I've never been welcome in those groups, but then I would no more go to a consciousness-raising group and talk about my intimate life with my husband than fly to the moon. I never understood all that.
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I just broke up with my boyfriend, so I'm officially single. But one thing I find unbelievably annoying is all these guys in my life who want to save me.
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The green economy should not just be about reclaiming throw-away stuff. It should be about reclaiming thrown-away communities. It should not just be about recycling things to give them a second life. We should also be gathering up people and giving them a second chance.
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He isn't insane, he's simply as trapped in his life as I am in mine. That makes us friends.
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A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be wrong is a man of principle; while he who from time to time adapts his opinions to the changing circumstances of life is an opportunist.
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Music scores your life. You interact with it. You listen to it in the car. It becomes the soundtrack to that one summer with that one girl.
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Back when I first started with Scandal, I felt like I had to carry a lot of the weight because it was up to me to sell those songs.
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Start writing, and the muse will come. Not every time, but keep at it, and the muse will come enough for you to get the initial writing done.
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I am a constitutionalist. I believe in the constitution. I don't believe in altering the constitution.
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Social man lives constantly outside himself.
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My life is fair game for anybody. I spent an unhappy, penniless childhood in Brooklyn. I had to slug my way up in a town called Hollywood where people love to trample you to death. I don't relax because I don't know how. I don't want to know how. Life is too short to relax.
