Susan Hayward (Edythe Marrenner) Quotes
I learned at a very early age that life is a battle. My family was poor, my neighborhood was poor. The only way that I could get away from the awfulness of life, at that time, was at the movies. There I decided that my big aim was to make money. And it was there that I became a very determined woman.
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We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to people's happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people's lives has been severed.
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Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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We constantly abuse and defend a woman's prerogative to change her mind.
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I am surprised people took so long to pick up on the fact that my contract expires at the end of this year. Eddie has to decide who he wants to drive, so there is no secret anywhere. I am not concerned. It does not sit with my objectives to be competitive.
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With legitimate journalists I've always had a great time - I've never gone out of my way to court the press. That's probably cost me some money, but I've always had the respect of my peers.
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Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.
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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
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I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
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Chana dal are skinless dried split chickpeas used in Indian cooking. They have a great texture and delicate flavour.
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Men are every bit as gendered as women.
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Change or be changed, right? And what we mean by that is that climate change, if we don't change course, if we don't change our political and economic system, is going to change everything about our physical world.
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Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
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The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail.
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Once I've decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.
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The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.
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Terrorism is not new to black people.
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I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger.
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Being in the stands is very difficult. I was never playing but I am nervous watching, waiting.
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It is what the poets of Ireland used to be saying, that every brave man, good at fighting, and every man that could do great deeds and not be making much talk about them, was of the Sons of the Gael; and that every skilled man that had music and that did enchantments secretly, was of the Tuatha de Danaan.
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I hold strongly to this: that it is better to be impetuous than circumspect; because fortune is a woman and if she is to be submissive it is necessary to beat and coerce her.
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The art of what they call female impersonation, or the drag shows, really helped me to hone what type of woman I was.
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I learned at a very early age that life is a battle. My family was poor, my neighborhood was poor. The only way that I could get away from the awfulness of life, at that time, was at the movies. There I decided that my big aim was to make money. And it was there that I became a very determined woman.
