Susan Howatch Quotes
One wonders what would happen in a society in which there were no rules to break. Doubtless everyone would quickly die of boredom.
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I don't think anybody thinks they're bad, just in life, in general.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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There's always hunger to create because I believe that's what I do. I believe that's what I'm supposed to be doing.
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Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.
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History should belong to all of us, and it needs to include people from different cultural backgrounds. Otherwise, it risks becoming irrelevant to children, who could then become disenchanted with education.
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I love my music, so I want to produce, write, and serve my music. I've had to learn about EQ frequencies and programming and space and clutter and how to be a better piano or bass player - everything.
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I feel like freedom of speech is one of the great things in this country and the freedom to do what you feel is right.
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It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.
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New markets could be created by rural potentials, which could lead to rise in the employment.
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The Russians obtained a number of plants under Lend-Lease, which had been authorized by Washington, that I thought were not justified for their war effort. They wanted them for postwar use.
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To my mind, it is the duty of the younger Negro artist, if he accepts any duties at all from outsiders, to change through the force of his art that old whispering 'I want to be white,' hidden in the aspirations of his people, to 'Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!'
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You can't work in a steel mill and think small. Giant converters hundreds of feet high. Every night, the sky looked enormous. It was a torrent of flames - of fire. The place that Pittsburgh used to be had such scale.
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Say something personal, not from a publicist.
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I believe that who we are, and consequently the work that we make, whether we're visual artists or writers or journalists or filmmakers, is a projection of where we were born, what's been withheld or lavished upon us, our color, our sex, our class. And everything we do in life to some degree is a reflection of that context.
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What we're doing is fun - if you have any sense of humor at all!
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When dealing with HBO, you actually are dealing with real filmmakers.
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There aren't enough good roles for strong women. I wish we had more female writers. Most of the female characters you see in films today are the 'poor heartbroken girl.'
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Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
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There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.
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The hope for a messiah puts too much on that one person. And you think that absolves you of personal responsibility and you don't have to act because that person will do it for you.
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One of these days I would give Pratt and Whitney back this engine and they could send it round airports as an advertisement, wearing a little brass plate reading This engine actually worked in this condition thus enabling Bill Cary to work in his condition. If you, too, are an idiot, P & W engines may save you from yourself.
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Cats are anthropomorphised in art because they are so laid back that you automatically attribute human thoughts and feelings to them.
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One wonders what would happen in a society in which there were no rules to break. Doubtless everyone would quickly die of boredom.
